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About Earth In Vision
The Earth in Vision project explores the BBC archives of environment themed television and radio programmes from the last 70 years, looking at the potential of these archives as a digital resource as well as to illustrate the potential of digital broadcast archives for researchers.
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Joe Smith - Earth In Vision Introduction
Joe Smith, Professor of Environment and Society at The Open University, introduces Earth in Vision and explains why it is so valuable.
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Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision
Sir David Attenborough discusses his inspirations, regrets, CGI, digital archive and the future of the planet.
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Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision
Pioneer of natural history television Desmond Morris discusses Zoo Time, digital archive, David Attenborough, climate change, human behaviour and the future.
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Alastair Fothergill - Earth in Vision
Alastair Fothergill, former Head of the BBC Natural History Unit and Series Producer of 'The Blue Planet', 'Planet Earth' and Executive Producer of 'Frozen Planet', talks inspiration, green issues and Sir David Attenborough.
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Vanessa Berlowitz - Earth in Vision
Vanessa Berlowitz, world-renowned wildlife film producer and director, talks inspiration, archive and her optimist for the Earth.
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Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision
Krishan Arora, consultant producer and former BBC commissioner, discusses the issues around commissioning environmental programmes in both the UK and abroad - including the once-upon-a-time industry reluctance to use the word "environment" - and outlines the ethical issues surrounding making archives open to the public.
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Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision
Amanda Theunissen, Editor of 'Nature' in the eighties, discusses environmental issues, The Octonauts and digital archive.
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Lawrence Breen - Earth in Vision
Lawrence Breen, award-winning Archive Researcher, shares his insights on the technical and creative issues surrounding the use of archive for natural history and environmental broadcasting.
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Richard Brock - Earth in Vision
Richard Brock, founder of the Brock Initiative and Living Planet Productions, discusses 'Life on Earth', archive and conservation issues in broadcast.
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Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision
Award winning TV, Radio and Digital producer Mary Colwell discusses her inspirations, what she is proud of, environmental issues and her hopes for the future.
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Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision
Award-winning Executive Producer at the BBC Natural History Unit Tim Scoones discusses his inspirations, Springwatch, citizen science, archive and new media.
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Julian Hector - Earth in Vision
Julian Hector, Head of the BBC Natural History Unit and former seabird biologist, discusses commissioning programmes, the difference between radio and television and the relationship between broadcast and digital.
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Doug Allan - Earth in Vision
Doug Allan, Emmy and BAFTA award-winning cameraman, talks Blue Planet, changing technology and the changing planet.
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James Honeyborne - Earth in Vision
James Honeyborne, producer and director of award-winning wildlife TV documentaries for BBC, Discovery Channel and National Geographic discusses environmental issues, the Africa series and the upcoming Oceans series.
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Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision
Caroline Underwood, award-winning series producer for Canadian television, looks back at how the landscape of environmental and natural history programming has transformed over the last few decades, and the challenges it faces today and moving forward into the future.
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James Smith - Earth in Vision
James Smith of the BBC's Natural History Unit talks about the experience of live broadcasting natural history content, as well as audiences craving the countryside in their homes, and how the NHU archival footage could be used to document the changing state of the UK's natural heritage.
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Paul Williams - Earth in Vision
Paul Williams of the BBC's Natural History Unit discusses how to make wildlife go viral and how to create awareness of environmental issues though natural history programming, as well as the creative opportunities of opening up the BBC's digital archive.
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Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision
Lisa Sargood, award-winning former Science and Nature Commissioner at the BBC, introduces to the debate around natural history broadcasting the question of how digital technologies, social media platforms and the overall infrastructure of information will be critical to the future of environmental programming.
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Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision
Krishan Arora, consultant producer and former BBC commissioner, discusses the issues around commissioning environmental programmes in both the UK and abroad - including the once-upon-a-time industry reluctance to use the word "environment" - and outlines the ethical issues surrounding making archives open to the public.
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Dan Rees - Earth in Vision
Dan Rees, of the BBC's Natural History Unit, shares his insights into the extent to which environmental issues can be incepted into blue-chip natural history programming; and what the benefits of opening up the BBC's archive could be, in particular when it comes to the future of crafting climate change messages.
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Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision
Harry Marshall, Creative Director at Icon Films, discusses the ethics of opening up private and public archives, as well as the conservation of king cobras, environmental filmmakers around the world, and the box office success of River Monsters.
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Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision
Dominic Weston, a seasoned series producer of natural history programming, discusses the place of storytelling in natural history filmmaking, whether environmental messages can be packaged as entertaining television, and the future of wildlife television.
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Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision
Ade Thomas, founder of Green.TV, shares his insights on whether environmental programming is doomed to be bad box-office, the opportunities of online broadcasting and the potential for new technology to report on the environment.
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Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision
Dawn Parsonage-Kent, Creative Director at Green.TV, expands on green television, how to rebrand the vulture, and the implications of changing audiences for environmental broadcasting.
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David Allen - Earth in Vision
David Allen, head producer at Passion Planet, discusses how to turn blue-chip filmmaking on its head, the importance of compelling stories, and the opportunities around opening up archives.
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Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision
Abbie Barnes, founder of Song Thrush Productions, describes what it is like starting out as a young natural history filmmaker, exploring wildlife in Britain, and the role of social media in connecting with new audiences.
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Jack Perks - Earth in Vision
Jack Perks, underwater cameraman and fish aficionado, describes what it is like starting out as a young natural history filmmaker, exploring wildlife in Britain, and the role of social media in connecting with new audiences.
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