Wendy Darke
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Wendy Darke is a British television producer and
Early life
She was born in
From the University of Bristol, she gained a joint-honours degree in Zoology and Geology in 1986;[2] her degree involved visiting the Pyrenees, Mallorca, Falmouth and Osmington Mills, Dorset.[2] She completed a three-year Ph.D. in marine sciences at James Cook University, funded by the Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC).[2]
Career
BBC
She joined the BBC Natural History Unit in 1991, making nature documentaries.[1] She first served as a camera operator, then director and eventually producer over the following 10 years.[1] Specializing in underwater photography, she swam with elephants in the Andaman Islands.[1]
From 2006 to 2012 she was executive producer for the children's programming section of the NHU, creating programmes such as
After departing NHU in April 2016,[3] Darke established her own production company, True to Nature, in Bristol in 2016.[4]
Darke won the Cherry Kearton Medal and Award (Royal Geographical Society or RGS), for cinematography in 2016.[5]
See also
References
- ^ ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
- ^ a b c d e Bristol, University of. "Wendy Darke | Graduation | University of Bristol". www.bristol.ac.uk. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
- ^ Foster, Patrick (7 April 2016). "ITV set to announce defection of BBC drama chief". The Telegraph. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
- ^ "Wendy Darke launches new company True To Nature !". www.naturalhistorynetwork.co.uk. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
- ^ RGS
