PAULBRADSHAWTV 
specialist factual producer

MYWORK

My passion is turning  ambitious ideas into big TV shows. 

I have over fifteen years experience as a series producer, writer and director, making original specialist factual programmes on wildlife, science and  history.  My projects have varied from popular presenter-led factual entertainment to high-end documentaries, blue chip natural history and factual dramas.  Whilst every production is unique, I  bring creativity, 
thought provoking content and great storylines to each of them. 


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MYSTORY

Have you ever stared into your beer and wondered... wondered why it has a stippled  logo on the bottom?  Well, that beer glass is where it all began for me, back in 1994.  The  stipples were designed to create  bubbles and the Self-frothing Beer Glass was my first story  on Tomorrow's World.  After my frothy launch into telly, I went on to  produce Meet The Ancestors, Animal Hospital and 
 Journeys To The Bottom Of The Sea, all for BBC  Science.  

My first project as series producer was  BBC TWO's Blood Of The Vikings.  This ground-breaking production - which I also developed - used specially commissioned genetic research and the latest archaeological evidence to tell the story of the Vikings in the British Isles.  After the Vikings, I immersed myself in more history projects:  I madeWhat the Tudors/ Stuarts Did For Us with Adam Hart-Davis, then moved to Oxford Film & TV where I helped Pythonise TV History  
with Terry Jones' Medieval Lives. 

From here, I moved into historical drama.  BBC ONE's Egypt  remains one of the most ambitious history series ever made.  I developed and  produced the unique format of three two-part dramas,  shot  in Egypt, featuring the extraordinary adventurers that  rediscovered an ancient culture lost to the sand.  It  was a big hit, reaching over 7 million viewers on Sunday nights.  Staying with historical drama, I wrote and directed the RTS nominated Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial, starring Robert Pugh as Goering. 

 I returned to BBC Science to make  Climate Change: Britain Under Threat with Sir David Attenborough and then the series The Incredible Human Journey about human origins, with Alice Roberts.  Between them, these productions provided a profound reflection 
on the human story - how we got here and where we're going. 

Then, a wonderful opportunity: a job at the BBC's  Natural History Unit.  One series turned into five and  I stayed for eight years, from 2009 - 2017.  I'm very proud of all of them: The Animal's Guide To Britain, Secrets Of Our Living Planet, Ice Age Giants, Wonders Of The Monsoon 
 and Earth's Greatest Spectacles. 

After some blue-sky development (watch this space) and leading The One Show's natural history team, I decided to leave the corporation and set up as a freelancer.  My ambition is to continue to reinvent the specialist factual genre, always searching for new horizons and ideas that can be turned into genuinely original shows for new audiences.

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