Sarah has over 25 years experience of producing television and radio programmes for the BBC. She worked as a Series Producer with the BBC Natural History Unit for seven years making wildlife programmes for a worldwide audience. Highlights include managing a large team on Inside Animals (3 x 50’) for BBC/Discovery Channel, a major CGI series which examined how animal bodies adapt to extreme conditions, predation and reproduction. She produced Bill Oddie on a four part series for BBC 2 Bill Oddie’s Best of British and Bill Oddie’s Ultimate Wild Night for BBC 2 (1 x 90’). She was Series Producer on Test Your Pet (2 x 60’) for BBC 1 which delivered popular science to a mainstream audience and was presented by Kate Humble and Rolf Harris.
A personal highlight during this time was to spend a year filming on the Prince of Wales’s estate in Gloucestershire. Highgrove, A Prince’s Legacy, explored how organic systems affect wildlife and won the highest audience ever for the BBC’s Natural World strand. It also garnered a highly coveted Radio Times front cover. Now working as a freelance producer Sarah has recently produced a sixty-minute documentary on naturalist Peter Scott for BBC 2. In 2008 she devised and produced a series for ITV called Wild Gardens which encouraged people to work with nature in their gardens. She is also a steering group member of the Wildlife Gardening Forum supported by the RHS, Natural England and the Natural History Museum, London. In 2008 she was also director on Deep Wreck Mysteries (1 x 50’) an international co production with National Geographic.
In 2011 Sarah interviewed wildlife experts and enthusiasts for the wildlife series Saving Species which was broadcast weekly throughout the year on BBC Radio 4. She also produced and directed a fifty-minute film celebrating the Centenary of the Wildlife Trusts, founded in 1912. She filmed wildlife across the UK from seabirds at Flamborough Head in Yorkshire to ospreys and red squirrels in Scotland and short-eared owls on the Lincolnshire coast.
Sarah is a co-founder, with Karen Partridge, of Bristol Wildlife Filmmakers. Sarah and Karen are presently developing new courses for 2012.
