SHELLEY on THE TELLY: Beavers are dam boring.(Features)

From: The Mirror (London, England) | Date: July 31, 2003 | Copyright information

Byline: JIM SHELLEY

WILDLIFE On One's Beavers - The Master Builders? (BBC1) wasn't the most thrilling wildlife programme I've ever seen.

Don't get me wrong, I can admire a good-looking beaver as much as the next man - though not perhaps if the next man is David Attenborough.

Attenborough could find any animal a source of endless fascination and it takes a man as erudite and authoritative as he to narrate a programme "exploring the links between man...