Have been a fan of D. Attenborough's work for some time. However sadly his diction has become poor in some ways. He is no whistling his 's' sounds, as does happen with some of out older geneation.
The tradgedy is that his whistled diction is far in excess louder than his normal diction. At times it was unbearable and hard ro understand him. It means you have two options. Either turn down the volume so the whistling is at normal speech volume, which means all other parts of words are too quiet. Or leave it at a volume where normal words are at normal volume, and suffer bad speech.
I mean no disrespect to D. Attenborough, or any of the older gernation who are such afflicted. That is life. However putting this type of narration on content for sale, is not acceptable.
About half the content is affected as such, while at other times narrations better, seems while not perfect. It suggests that had D. Attenborough concentrated more, the end result could have been better.
I can almost hear the clanging of pitch-forks, wanting my blood. However this has to be said. It is time for Mr Attenborough to retire, or do a better job. While I have complete empathy for Mr Attenborough's age, that is no excuse to make paid content very difficult to watch.
This is inexcusable from the BBC. It is noted that the BBC are trotting out D. Attenborough content more often recently. It will be in response to their failure in general. However bringing a beloved ecologist and narrator like D. Attenborough, and letting him sadly bring down content is pathetic. They should have been on top of it, and asked for fresh takes of narration. Maybe if they were not so bad in the first place, they would not have felt the need to bring in D. Attenborough eh? There are plenty of other good passionate narators who could have done this.
Yes it's sad and we all more D. Attenborough, but maybe ...