Attenborough to give lecture at Heritage Museum (From The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald)

Attenborough to give lecture at Heritage Museum

ACCLAIMED natural history broadcaster Sir David Attenborough is coming to Devizes to give a lecture in aid of Wiltshire Heritage Museum.

Sir David who has a distinguished career in broadcasting spanning 50 years will give an illustrated talk about how he makes his television programmes.

Sir David is a supporter of the museum, in Long Street, Devizes, and last year he filmed there for a programme he made about amber, a yellow translucent fossilised resin used in jewellery.

The museum has the best collection of Bronze Age exhibits outside the British Museum and Sir David filmed a Bronze Age amber necklace exhibited at the museum, which was excavated from a barrow at Upton Lovell in the early 19th century by the famous archaeologists Sir Richard Colt Hoare and William Cunnington.

Sir David's lecture is entitled Discovery and the Camera and is on November 26 at Devizes Town Hall at 2.30pm. Tickets are £11, available from the museum on (01380) 727369.

The museum has an annual fund-raising lecture and Bill Perry, chairman of the trustees at the museum, said: "We are very excited that Sir David is willing to come and help the museum by giving this lecture."

Mr Perry said the museum is more famous outside Wiltshire.

He said: "On one recent Sunday we had a professor from Texas and people from Belgium, the Netherlands and Poland and the other week a man from Australia visited it specially."