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Page last updated at 21:52 GMT, Friday, 11 September 2009 22:52 UK

Attenborough's polished Proms performance

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Sir David Attenborough is preparing to make his musical debut at the BBC's Last Night of the Proms.

The natural history presenter will play a floor-polisher, as part of Sir Malcolm Arnold's piece A Grand, Grand Overture, with Rory Bremner and Martha Kearney on rifles.

David Sillito reports.

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