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Exciting news from the Royal Television Society yesterday: I`m delighted to now be able to inform you that the judging of the RTS 2012 awards has been completed. This year we had more entries than ever before and the good news is The following has  been nominated: John Brown for Natural World: Empire of the […] Read more »

We had a great evening out at the V&A in London yesterday. My friend Simon Peers had a private viewing of his incredible spider silk textiles – a flat panelled piece and an astonishing cape. The panelled piece has already caused quite a stir in the US, spending time on exhibit in the New York […] Read more »

Our latest Natural World film – Madagascar, Lemurs & Spies – is finished, here is some fantastic advanced publicity for the film in BBC Wildlife Magazine:   Read more »

Finally home after a very busy last few months that has included trips to Brazil, Scotland and Ethiopia. We’ve just had a really great shoot in Alaska – the first for a two part series for Animal Planet – it was fantastic to be back, the last time I was there was three years ago […] Read more »

Well, that was certainly one of the more weird trips of the last 10 years. First off, the baboons were fantastic, they gave us the run around, disappeared at rather inconvenient moments and lead us on some pretty hardcore forced marches, but they behaved beautifully. My main job was to film as much behaviour as […] Read more »

After a lovely couple of weeks at home its time to head off again, this time to central Ethiopia to film Hamadryas Baboons for a BBC Natural World film called ‘Baboons, Guns & Me’, about the travails of an Australian primatologist working with this fantastic species. I’m really looking for ward to this, I made […] Read more »

A slightly strange week whereby I was melting in 40C in Brazil one day only to be ploughing through the first snows of the winter in the Cairngorms a few days later, separated by the briefest sojourn at home.   We had a really great shoot for Wild Brittania with Andrew Murray. The weather looked […] Read more »

Just home after a really great trip to Brazil. The first few days were spent working the the fantastic Rob Sullivan on his Natural World film about three orphaned Jaguars which are being reared by Leandro & Anna Silveria. Leandro and Anna were absolutely incredible; super hospitality and their skill and devotion to their work […] Read more »

After a brilliant summer at home I’m off to Brazil for three weeks – working on a BBC2 Natural World film about Jaguars, and the BBC series ‘How Life Works’. I’m going to back to a couple of locations I spent a long time filming at about 10 years ago so it’s going to be […] Read more »

Here is a nice feature from the Autumn issue of BBC Wildlife Magazine about the making of ‘Empire of the Desert Ants’ The film has had a really great response, 2.3 million viewers and lots of calls to the BBC, I’m still getting e-mails from people who have seen it.     Read more »