"The very simple thought I started from," said David Attenborough, the BBC executive who dreamed up "Civilisation," "was to get on the screen the loveliest things created by European man in the past thousand years." When Clark was invited to serve as its host and writer, he added an urgent imperative of his own: "It's worth trying . . . to make people realize how fragile civilisation is and how easily it might slip from our grasp."
Read the rest of Terry Teachout's essay here.
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