Attenborough: BBC nature shows at riskSir David Attenborough Sir David Frederick Attenborough, OM, CH, CVO, CBE, FRS (born on May 8, 1926 in London, England) is one of the world's best known broadcasters and naturalists. Widely considered one of the pioneers of the nature documentary, his career as the respected face and voice of British has warned that job cuts at the BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. department responsible for Planet Earth, the Blue Planet and Springwatch could leave its output "skimpy skimp·y adj. skimp·i·er, skimp·i·est 1. Inadequate, as in size or fullness, especially through economizing or stinting: a skimpy meal. 2. Unduly thrifty; niggardly. ". The BBC's Natural History Unit will lose nearly one-third of its programme makers and £12m of its £37m budget as part of the director general, Mark Thompson's latest corporation-wide budget cuts. Thompson's latest round of cost cutting will see the NHU NHU Natural History Unit (BBC) NHU Network Hub Unit lose 57 of its 180 posts in the six-year plan Six-Year Plan (1950-1955) was the second - after the Three-Year Plan (1947-1949) - centralized plan of the People's Republic of Poland. It concentrated on increasing the heavy industry sector. that will lead to 1,800 staff across the BBC being made redundant. Attenborough, whose latest series, Life In Cold Blood, is about to begin on BBC1, said there would be less natural history programming on the BBC as BBC AS Bø Byggecompagni As a result of the cuts. He added that if output did continue at present levels, but produced by a slimmed down NHU, it would lead to "skimpy" programming. The broadcaster, 81, told the Radio Times: "With cuts of that size, you simply can't continue the same level of output, or if you do, you're going to replace it with something very skimpy." Independent producers of wildlife shows have also warned the corporation that the cuts would have "reverberations way beyond the BBC" because the Bristol-based NHU was a leader in its field. A BBC spokeswoman defended the cuts, saying: "The big landmark pieces and events such as Springwatch are continuing on the BBC and quality will in no way be compromised." Interviewed by Jeremy Paxman Jeremy Paxman (born 11 May 1950) is a British BBC journalist, news and TV presenter and author from England. He is best known for his abrasive and forthright style of interviewing on the BBC's Newsnight for next week's issue of the Radio Times, Attenborough said he had a standard reply for viewers who ask why he shows pictures of hummingbirds and other beautiful creatures without mentioning God. Attenborough added that he queries why people always cite hummingbirds, butterflies or roses when they ask the question. "I tend to think of an innocent little child sitting on the bank of a river in Africa, who's got a worm boring through his eye that can render him blind before he's eight," he said. "Now, presumably pre·sum·a·ble adj. That can be presumed or taken for granted; reasonable as a supposition: presumable causes of the disaster. you think this Lord created this worm, just as he created the hummingbird. I find that rather tricky."· To contact the MediaGuardian newsdesk email editor@mediaguardian.co.uk or phone 020 7239 9857. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 7278 2332. · If you are writing a comment for publication, please mark clearly "for publication". 
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