David Attenborough served as the program director for BBC Television.
=== 1927 to 1939 ===The British Broadcasting Corporation came into existence on 1 January 1927, and Reith  newly knighted  was appointed its first Director General
 In the early 1960s, Attenborough resigned from the permanent staff of the BBC to study for a postgraduate degree in social anthropology at the London School of Economics, interweaving his study with further filming

