London – Sir David Attenborough will be awarded the IBC2011 International Honour for Excellence at this year’s awards ceremony held in the RAI Auditorium on Sunday 11 September, in recognition of his remarkable career in television (in particular, natural history), which spans almost 60 years. The award is the highest honour which IBC bestows. It is presented to individuals and organizations who and which have taken the best technology available to create the finest broadcasting content. Sir David Attenborough joined the BBC in 1952 and immediately found his vocation in natural history programming. Among the programmes he commissioned were Monty Python’s Flying Circus and the 1979 landmark series, Life on Earth. “Sir David Attenborough has been called ‘the greatest broadcaster of our time’, and throughout his career he has seized upon the latest developments in technology to illuminate natural history,” said Peter Owen, chairman of the IBC Council.