The broadcaster, who has brought the natural world into millions of homes, is seeking a DJ to remix a field recording he made in Bali 70 years ago.

He's asking them to turn the three-minute recording of sacred gamelan music into a club-worthy Ibiza anthem.

Sir David first recorded the melodies while searching for a Komodo dragon in his 1954 BBC TV series, Zoo Quest.

"The villagers play this concerted music with extraordinary precision and real zest," he recalled.

"So it is haunting music that you hear every night - or you did in those days, in the villages of Bali."

He now hopes that, by fusing the original recording with modern production, the indigenous music of Indonesia can be introduced to a new generation.

The naturalist often took a portable tape recorder on his travels to capture local sounds and music, but the majority of his recordings went unused and lay dormant in the BBC Archive until he mentioned them in passing to Radio 4 producer Julian May.

May tracked the recordings down and helped compile an album of Sir David's discoveries - titled Sir David Attenborough: My Field Recordings From Across The Planet.

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