Biographies

Biographies

Robert Winston – Presenter Richard Dale – Executive Producer and Director

Richard read Natural Sciences at Christ’s College Cambridge and joined the BBC as an assistant producer in 1987, going on to become a producer of Tomorrow’s World in 1989.

As a documentary director, Richard has made a number of award-winning and critically acclaimed films for BBC One and BBC Two, including The Human Body.The series was honoured with a coveted George Foster Peabody Award and also won awards from Bafta, the New York Film Festival, the San Francisco International Film Festival and the UK’s Royal Society. In 2001, Richard wrote and produced a Large Format Feature Film (IMAX) based upon the TV series. Richard’s other productions for the BBC include The Contenders, Tokyo Earthquake and TX – Time Files. Richard has worked on a wide range of programmes, from news and current affairs, to Britain’s most popular television drama, EastEnders, and Channel Four’s Teachers, for which he was nominated for a Bafta Professor the Lord Winston is Europe’s foremost award as director in 2001. fertility pioneer. He has been Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at ’s Hospital since 1978 and Professor of Peter Georgi – Series Producer Fertility Studies at University of London at the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, since 1987. Peter read Economics at Exeter University and started his television career with the BBC in 1990 He has written and presented several BBC TV after spending two years as a professional cyclist. series including Your Life In Their Hands, The Human Body, Superhuman, A Child Of Our Time and Human Specialising in innovative filming techniques and Instinct, a pioneering look into what it is that makes creating distinctive visual styles, Peter produced and us human. directed the BBC’s first Large Format (IMAX) Film, The Human Body. He also produced and directed He is author of several books including Infertility, one of the more controversial films on puberty in A Sympathetic Approach (1987), The IVF Revolution the multi award-winning series, The Human Body, (1999) and Human Instinct (2002). He writes and was responsible for developing many of the regularly for scientific publications and national specialist filming and graphic techniques that have newspapers on human and experimental won the series international acclaim. reproduction and is a regular speaker in the on health, scientific and His other work includes developing the award- educational issues. winning, slow-motion photography, which explored

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the hidden beauty of some of the world’s greatest effects has been recognised with numerous athletes, for the BBC series The Contenders, which accolades, including a Bafta in Graphic Design for aired in 1995. Later that year, Peter produced the The Human Body, a Gold World Medal at the New acclaimed film for the BBC One series QED, York Film Festival, two Royal Television Society following the courageous attempt of the half- awards for Graphic Design and and paralysed, ex-Royal Marine Sgt, Reggie Perrin, to two BDA Gold Awards. Other television credits climb Alaska’s Mount McKinley. Peter also produced include The Planets, Tomorrow’s World and The and directed the visually stunning film Call Of The Human Face as art director and concept designer. Deep, about breath-hold divers, also for QED.

Alan Parker – Composer Patsy Rodenburg – Voice Director Alan studied classical guitar at London’s Royal Head of Voice at the Royal National and Academy of Music and was an original member of Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Patsy trained the cult band Blue Mink. During his career he has at the Central School of Speech and Drama and worked with music legends Frank Sinatra, Elton was voice tutor at the Royal Shakespeare John, David Bowie, John Lennon and Jimi Hendrix. Company for nine years. She works extensively in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Frankenstein, BBC theatre, film, television and radio throughout Drama’s Victoria And Albert and Rhodes and Europe, North America,Australia and Asia. Patsy is Granada’s Tough Love are just some of his film and a published author and has written 11 books based television credits. His Mass for full orchestra, choir upon her teachings. and organ was sung for the first time in The Vatican in a special service celebrated by His Holiness The Pope. Wendy Allnutt – Movement Director

Wendy is Head of Movement at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and has worked extensively as an actress and choreographer in the West End, Royal Shakespeare Company, repertory and tours of the USA, UK and Sweden. Her credits include the films Oh! What A Lovely War and When Eight Bells Toll; on TV, she played Jennifer, Ronnie Corbett’s fiancée, in Sorry, was Cordelia in King Lear and appeared in Rough Justice. Her extensive choreography work includes She Stoops To Conquer and A Laughing Matter (Out of Joint/), Romeo And Juliet and Private Lives (Mercury), and Brothers Karamazov, Maybe and Private Lives (Manchester Royal Exchange).

Tim Goodchild – Production Designer and Visual Effects Director

Tim has over 20 years of experience in production design, visual effects direction and graphic design for broadcast television and large format movies. Tim’s innovative approach to design and special

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