Television & Radio

It's been quite a journey from those slightly nervous moments being dragged out of the wilds of Dartmoor to talk about my butterfly work or a train trip to 'the big smoke' to talk about the 'Bug Club' on Blue Peter in the old and iconic BBC TV Centre - now sadly no more.

Radio is where I got my confidence - being interviewed by Kelvin Boot for Radio 4's Natural History Programme and becoming the go-to guest for local BBC Radio Devon is where it started to come together. That was back in the early 1990's while I was still at University and the rest, as they say is history.

Here is my history as so far as it's been broadcast. My personal archive has some holes in it, and there is quiet a bit missing from the online archives (for example the Radio 4 and Watch Out's very first Spring Watches were hosted by me, but seem to have been expunged from, the record). Anyhow here's the best version of my videography and Radiography that I can recall.

Those in bold are series in which I was a lead presenter.

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Nature Detectives
The Really Wild Guide to Britain
Playdays
Watchout
The Really Wild Show
Wild West Country
Spring Watch (The Radio original)
Autumn Watch (The Radio original)
Explorer National Geographic
Nick’s Quest
Tomorrow’s World
Nick’s Quest Christmas Special
Twister Week
UK Wild 2000
Nick’s Quest Down Under
Explorers Journal
Under the Skin (Nick Baker’s…)
Baker in the Oven
Serious Jungle
Serious Desert
Ultimate Explorer
Inside Out
Killer Shark Live
Weird Creatures 1
Pirate Ship Live
Weird Creatures 2
Weird Creatures 3
The Paul O’Grady Show
Autumn Watch
Spring Watch
Alan Titchmarsh Show
Beautiful Freaks
Malaysian from Below
Britain’s Big Wildlife Revival
Spring Watch in the Afternoon
Paradise Malaysia
Zac and Quack
Winter Watch 2014
Autumnwatch Unsprung
Springwatch Unsprung
Winterwatch Unsprung
Nick Baker’s Wild West
From Darkness into Light: civilisations
Living on the Roof of the World
Big Week at the Zoo
Nature Table
Japans Wilderness

1994
1994
994-96
1996-1999
1996-2006
1997?
1998-99
1998-99
1999
1999
1999-2001
1999
1999
2000
2000
2000
2001
2002
2002
2003
2003-04
2004-2019
2005
2007
2007
2008
2009
2009/10
2010
2011
2011
2012
2013
2013
2013
2014
2014
2014
2013-15
2014-15
2014-15
2016
2018
2018
2018-19
2019
2021

BBC
BBC 1
BBC 1
BBC
BBC 1
ITV
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
National Geographic USA
Channel FIVE/Animal Planet
BBC 1
Channel FIVE/Animal Planet
BBC 2
BBC 1
Channel FIVE/Animal Planet
National Geographic
BBC 2
BBC 1
BBC 1
BBC 1
National Geographic/MSNBC
BBC 1
FIVE
FIVE, Animal Planet,
FIVE
FIVE, Discovery
FIVE, Discovery
ITV 1
BBC 2
BBC 2
ITV
SKY 3D
National Geographic Asia
BBC 1
BBC 2
National Geographic Asia
Nickelodeon
BBC 2
BBC 2
BBC 2
BBC 2
BBC 1
BBC 1
CCTV-9 & Discovery Asia-Pacific
FIVE
BBC Radio 4
BBC World News

With regular/favourite or notable appearances & presenting on Harry Hill’s TV Burp, CBBC, Loose Women, Richard & Judy Show, Holiday Programme (1999), Ready Steady Cook (2010), Celebrity Eggheads, Celebrity Mastermind, Blue Peter (2008).

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