Mike Salisbury played a key role in the BBC Natural History Unit for more than thirty years. He started working with Sir David Attenborough as an assistant producer on Life on Earth and since then has produced numerous programmes for series such as Wildlife on One and The Natural World. These include the major award winners Through Animal Eyes, Transylvania – Living With Predators, Cork – Forest in a Bottle and Kingdom of the Ice Bear a series about Arctic wildlife and conservation which received four BAFTA nominations.
In more recent years Mike was the Series Producer for five of David Attenborough’s landmark series: Lost Worlds Vanished Lives, The Private Life of Plants, The Life of Birds, The Life Of Mammals and most recently Life In The Undergrowth, which won the Golden Panda Award at Wildscreen Festival 2006. At that same Festival, Mike was also given the Chris Parsons Outstanding Achievement Award and at the Grierson British Documentary Awards 2006, the Trustees Award for contributions to the art and craft of the documentary. In 2007 he was made an OBE in the New Years Honours List for his services to broadcasting.
