Paul Olding

I am a Tv and Film Director and Producer working for the BBC. My films include the acclaimed drama doc The Genius Sperm Bank, the award winning Earth Power of the Planet with Prof Iain Stewart, uncovering Darwin’s Dangerous Idea with Andrew Marr, the award winning explorations of Gravity and Time with Prof Brian Cox and more recently the multi award winning Wonders of the Solar System. Spring 2011 saw Britain’s Secret Seas with explorer Paul Rose, revealing the underwater wonders around the British coast. Autumn 2011 and there’s the evolution of the human behaviour in Origins of Us with Dr Alice Roberts and the underwater archaeology of a mysterious bronze age city off the coast of Greece with City Beneath the Waves: Pavlopetri.

I also run my own award winning independent Movie production

company Bongo Reef Pictures which makes shorts, our

most recent being the Super8 films Help Wanted and Lonely Boy, and

our HiDef short Losing the Plot, all currently showing at Festivals.

I have a fair bit of experience as a self shooting HD cameraman,

including underwater (HSE Media), tapeless systems and specialist cameras. Another new venture is DandPTimelapse Photography.

I am also a published writer and photographer.

A zoologist by training, I have a doctorate from Oxford University in Australian Microhylid frog calls. I have specialist knowledge in frogs, reptiles and mammals, take an active interest in the public understanding of science, and regularly give illustrated talks to primary schools on ecology, geology and the solar system. I also have a small vineyard called OldingManor and make my own wine.

Contact Me: Tel 07970 155303

Email: paul@paulolding.co.uk