How Sir David Attenborough’s ‘moment of bliss’ gorilla encounter became one of most famous TV sequences of all time

A MOUNTAIN gorilla stretches out her hand, places it gently on David Attenborough’s head and peers deeply into his eyes. Decades later, the naturalist’s ­famous voice would sometimes break when he told of the encounter in the jungle of Rwanda in 1978 that led to one of the most famous television sequences of all time. He...