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Attenborough polishes up musical skills at Proms

Sir David Attenborough demonstrated an unconventional skill at the Last Night of the Proms, playing a floor polisher as a musical instrument, writes the Sun. The wildlife presenter admitted he was nervous as he took part in the comic piece A Grand, Grand Overture, by Sir Malcolm Arnold. "A charging rhinoceros is nothing to this," he said. He was also shot at during the piece – by Rory Bremner, who was playing a rifle.

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