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For the last 60 years, David Attenborough has been one of
 the world’s leading natural history filmmakers, making landmark series including Life On Earth, The Blue Planet and Planet Earth, seen by billions
 of people across the world. His extraordinary career has spanned black and white, colour, HD and
3D formats and his films have 
won multiple Emmys and British academy (Bafta) awards.

David was knighted by the Queen in 1985 and was given Britain’s highest honour, the Order of Merit. He has also received numerous other awards and is a fellow of the Royal Society.

In Britain, David Attenborough is considered a national treasure and has recently been voted Britain’s most popular trusted person.


David’s films continue to push the boundaries of camera technology and CGI in factual storytelling. His latest ambitious multimedia projects include both apps and virtual reality (VR) which both entertain and educate global audiences of all
 ages.

David joined the BBC in 1952 and within several years created his acclaimed Zoo Quest series - filming wild animals in their natural habitat for the very first time. By 1965, he was Controller of BBC Two and responsible for the introduction of colour television into Britain.

In 1973, he left BBC senior management to return to his passion of programme-making. The internationally acclaimed, thirteen-part series Life On Earth was the most ambitious series that had ever been produced by the BBC’s Natural History Unit, and created the famous ‘landmark’ format that continues to make the Natural History Unit world renowned to this day.

Throughout the 1990s, David presented natural history series to huge global audiences, including The Trials Of Life (1990), The Private Life Of Plants (1995), and The Life Of Birds (1998).

In autumn 2000, David presented State Of The Planet and a year later The Blue Planet. In 2002, he presented the immensely popular Life Of Mammals, followed by Life In The Undergrowth and Life In Cold Blood. In 2006, he narrated the much-celebrated blue-chip series, Planet Earth, followed by Life (2009) Frozen Planet (2011), Africa (2013) and Life Story (2014).

In 2016, he made two award-winning specials: Light On Earth and Attenborough’s Giant Dinosaur. Sir David has presented the four time Bafta and two time Emmy award-winning series Planet Earth II (2016) along with Emmy award-winning series Blue Planet II, (2017) for which he won the award for Outstanding Narrator and most recently Dynasties, (2018).

Dr Jonny Keeling is the executive producer of Seven Worlds, One Planet. He's worked at BBC Studios Natural History Unit for 23 years, where he has produced, directed, series produced and exec produced across various wildlife series and documentaries including Planet Earth, Planet Earth II, The Life Of Mammals, Mountain Gorilla, The Natural World, Wildlife On One, Lost Land Of The Volcano and Lost Land Of The Tiger.

Scott Alexander is the series producer of Seven Worlds, One Planet. He has spent over 20 years with BBC Studios Natural History Unit, filming on all seven continents. He has produced live TV from the middle of the Masai Mara for Big Cat Live, series produced the award-winning children’s wildlife series Deadly60 and directed Sir David Attenborough on the Bafta-winning landmark series, Life In Cold Blood.

Dr Chadden Hunter is an Australian wildlife biologist and filmmaker. After completing a PhD on gelada baboons in Ethiopia, Chadden worked with National Geographic and Discovery Channel, filming everything from tribal ceremonies in Africa to snow leopards in Pakistan.

On the BBC series Planet Earth he became known as 'the guy covered in bat poop', and whilst filming arctic wolves for Frozen Planet learnt that minus 40C was cold enough to freeze his eyes shut. His credits include Series Producer on Wild Arabia which was nominated for two Emmy awards. While producing the Grasslands programme for Planet Earth II Chadden discovered a new-found respect for any rhinoceros he meets on foot in long grass. On Seven Worlds, One Planet Chadden produced and directed the North America and South America episodes filming everything from lynx in the Yukon to puma in Patagonia.

Dr Emma Napper is the producer of the Asia and Australia episodes of Seven Worlds, One Planet. Originally from Manchester, she grew up escaping into wildlife programmes, then studied as a zoologist, before starting to work at the BBC in 2004. Since then, Emma has worked on a number of David Attenborough series showcasing animal behaviour, including Life In The Undergrowth, Madagascar, Life, Life Story and Planet Earth II. She has been lucky enough to film an amazing variety of animals from tiny bugs to chimps and caiman-hunting, Jaguars!

For Seven Worlds, One Planet she travelled to the deserts and jungles of Australia and secret spots in South East Asia to capture new stories of animal characters, and worked with her team to filmed stories from all corners of these continents.

Dr Fredi Devas is an award winning wildlife filmmaker who cares deeply about the natural world and the challenges it faces. After completing a PhD on chacma baboons in Namibia, Fredi did research on the bushmeat trade in Equatorial Guinea, and then spent time living with the San bushmen in Southern Africa.

Having worked on Planet Earth II, Frozen Planet and Wild Arabia, he’s been lucky enough to film hyenas roaming the streets in Ethiopia, polar bears feasting on a whale carcass, and camel racing with robotic jockeys.

On Seven Worlds, One Planet he returned to his love of the Antarctic wilderness. Highlights involved being surround by half a million king penguins, but he was also struck by the impact human activity is having on wildlife in such remote locations.

Giles Badger is the producer/director of Seven Worlds, One Planet Europe and Africa episodes. He’s worked at the BBC Natural History Unit for 17 years where he has produced and directed across titles including Life In The Air, Monkey Planet, Super-Smart Animals and Wild China.

After completing a Zoology degree at Bristol University, Giles worked as a safari guide in Botswana. Here his passion for the wildlife of the Africa continent grew.

In his career, Giles has followed geese over the Himalayas, trekked with polar bears in the arctic, shared caves with 10 million bats and families of baboons, and most recently gained a new found love of wildlife closer to home - in Europe.

• BBC commissioning editor - Tom McDonald
• Executive producer - Jonny Keeling
• Series producer - Scott Alexander
• Producers
  Giles Badger
  Fredi Devas
  Chadden Hunter
  Emma Napper
• Assistant producers
  Charlotte Bostock
  Kiri Cashell
  Maddie Close
  Nick Green
  Jo Haley
  Abi Lees
  Lucy Wells
  Sarah Whalley
• Researchers
  Michael Becker
  Jo Stead
• Junior researcher - Tom Parry
• Head of production - Maria Norman
• Production manager - Caroline Cox
• Production executives
  Katie Hall
  Kate Gorst
• Junior production managers
  Nicola Kowalski
  Natasha Prymak
• Production coordinators
  Zoë Beresford
  Cleone Fox
  Gemma Templar
• Camera and sound
  John Aitchison
  Neil Anderson
  Grant Baldwin
  Dan Beecham
  Howard Bourne
  Barrie Britton
  John Brown
  Santiago Cabral
  Rod Clarke
  Martyn Colbeck
  Tom Crowley
  Sophie Darlington
  Cristian Dimitrius
  Tony Driver
  Justine Evans
  James Ewen
  Bertie Gregory
  Ted Giffords
  Robert Hawthorne
  Justin Hofman
  Daniel Hunter
  Jonathan Jones
  Sandesh Kadur
  Paul Klaver
  João Paulo Krajewski
  Louis Labrom
  Tim Laman
  Alastair MacEwen
  Mark MacEwen
  Justin Maguire
  Pete McCowen
  Jamie McPherson
  Hugh Miller
  Henry Mix
  Roger Munns
  Mark Payne-Gill
  David Parer
  Jacky Poon
  Espen Rekdal
  Andre Rerekura
  Edward Saltau
  John Shier
  Hector Skevington-Postles
  Rolf Steinmann
  Toby Strong
  Nick Turner
  Alex Vail
  Tom Walker
  Chris Watson
  Max Hug Williams
• Film editors
  Nigel Buck
  Robbie Garbutt
  Angela Maddick
  Matt Meech
  Andy Netley
  Dave Pearce
  Jack Roberts
• Additional editors
  Nick Carline
  Chrissa Geering
  Emma Jones
  Doug Main
  Owen Porter
• Online editors
  Simon Bland
  Franz Ketterer
• Edit assistants
  Aleks Grant
  Greg Slater
• Post production supervisor - Miles Hall
• Series development
  Nick Easton
  Reneé Godfrey
  Doug Hope
  Dan Huertas
  Emily Miller
  Luke Ward
• Development producers
  Jane Atkins
  Rosie Gloyns
• Development assistant producer - Jo Avery
• Production team
  Edward Anderson
  Claire Arthur
  Dan Butt
  Jack Delf
  Patrick Evans
  Angel Garcia-Rojo
  Craig Haywood
  Lauren Jackson
  Olly Jelley
  Vicky Knight
  Sophie Lanfear
  Felicity Lanchester
  Mary Melville
  Adam Oldroyd
  Olly Scholey
  Jackie Stearns
  Deya Ward
  Theo Webb
  Jess Webster
• Scientific consultants
  Professor Iain Stewart
  Professor Christopher Scotese
• Production management assistant - Sadie Coles
• Assistant production accountant - Kelsie Chappell
• Production accountant - Sue Luton
• Dubbing mixers
  Graham Wild
  Chris Domaille
• Sound editors
  Kate Hopkins
  Tim Owens
• Colourist - Adam Inglis
• Graphics - Hello Charlie
• Theme music - Hans Zimmer and Jacob Shea for Bleeding Fingers Music
• Original music - Jacob Shea for Bleeding Fingers Music
• Score producers - Hans Zimmer and Russell Emanuel
• Score supervisor - Christopher J. King
• Music production services - Steve Kofsky
• Out There performed by Sia and Hans Zimmer
• Out There composed by Sia, Christopher Braide and Hans Zimmer
• Out There produced by Russell Emanuel for Bleeding Fingers Music
• Out There original production by Christopher Braide
• Out There arranged by Andrew Christie for Bleeding Fingers Music