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James Blunt cuts a dashing figure as he joins his wife Sofia at star-studded premiere for David Attenborough's new series
A host of celebrities gathered at The Pelican in Notting Hill on Tuesday before heading to London's Royal Festival Hall for the main event, sponsored by People's Postcode Lottery.
When he declares that our understanding of the sub-oceanic world has been transformed in his lifetime, there is supporting black-and-white footage of him scuba-diving off the Great Barrier Reef in 1957, when he was already in his 30s and so taken aback by the spectacle ‘that I forgot, momentarily, to breathe’. Ocean is full of spectacular underwater camerawork (co-directors Toby Nowlan, Colin Butfield and Keith Scholey all deserve a name-check, and Prince Albert of Monaco, eye-catchingly, is among the executive producers), but unlike most Attenborough documentaries it does not linger on pouncing predators or mysterious mating rituals. On the whole, however, everything we see is to bolster Attenborough’s passionate message, namely that if the world’s nations, meeting next month at the UN Ocean Conference, can agree to create enough fully protected marine reserves, then humankind might be on to a winner.
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