Biographies

Commissioning Editor, Specialist Factual, In-house

Martin Davidson is Commissioning Editor for History and Business programming.

Martin joined the BBC in 1988 and worked across series as diverse as The Late Show (1989-1993), A History Of British Art, Reputations, and Decisive Weapons, before becoming Executive Producer of A History Of Britain by Simon Schama.

In 2001 he became Head of History at RDF Media, responsible for Story Of The Novel, Spitfire Ace, Bomber Crew, Scrapheap Challenge and The Queen's Castle, among others.

He returned to the BBC in 2005 as Commissioning Executive Producer, Independents, Specialist Factual, before becoming Acting Genre Commissioner, Specialist Factual, in March 2007.

He was appointed Commissioning Editor, Specialist Factual Programming In-house, in November 2007.

In his current role Martin commissions science, history and business for BBC One, Two, Three and Four.

Recent commissions include Monarchy: The Royal Family At Work; Atom; Science And Islam; The Genius Of Photography; Andrew Marr's The Making Of Modern Britain; Bang Goes The Theory!; The Love Of Money; and Robespierre.