Nicholas Crane Writer/Presenter

Nick is a geographical writer and broadcaster. In recent years, he has become best known for his work on BBC television, presenting the BAFTA-winning BBC2 TV series Coast (now in its eighth series), Map Man, Great British Journeys, Nicholas Crane’s Britannia and Town - a BBC / Open University co-production. Since 2004, Nick has been the lead presenter on more than 60 BBC films and contributed to another 20 BBC films. He is currently working on series 9 of Coast.

Agents

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Credits

Television

Production Company Notes Coast Series 9 BBC Birmingham for 8 x 60. 2014 BBC 2 Currently in production for transmission in 2014.

Town Series 2 Tern TV, Glasgow, Presenter of four, one-hour films. 2013 for BBC2

Coast Series 8 BBC Birmingham for 6 x 60. 2013 BBC 2

Coast Series 7 BBC Birmingham for 6 x 60. 2012 BBC 2

Town Tern TV, Glasgow, Presenter of 4 one-hour films exploring the history 2011 for BBC2 and modern life of four British towns.

Coast Series 6 BBC Birmingham for 6 x 60. BBC 2

United Agents | 12-26 Lexington Street London W1F OLE | T +44 (0) 20 3214 0800 | F +44 (0) 20 3214 0801 | E [email protected] Production Company Notes Coast Series 5 BBC Birmingham for 8 x 60. 2010 BBC 2

Coast Series 4 BBC Birmingham for 8 X 60 2009 BBC 2

Munro: Mountain BBC4 Presenter of a one-hour film that followed the boot- Man steps of Sir High Munro, the compiler of the tables of 2009 Scottish mountains over 3000 feet in height.

In Search of Wavelength Films 1 x 30' documentary exploring the realities of the England's Green for BBC East (BBC1) 'rural dream' in East Anglia. and Pleasant Land and BBC4 2009

Nicholas Crane's Tern TV, Glasgow, Presenter of 3 one-hour films in which Nick used a Britannia for BBC2 16th-century masterpiece, William Camden’s 2009 Britannia of 1586, to explore the landscapes of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.

Down the Line Eye Film & TV, for Presenter of 1 x 30 minute film about the impact of 2008 BBC East (BBC1) and the Beeching railway cuts on the county of Norfolk. BBC4

Great British Tern TV, Glasgow, Presenter of 8 one-hour films in which Nick posed the Journeys for BBC2 question ‘Who explored Britain?’. 2007

Coast Series 3 BBC Birmingham for 8 x 60 2007 BBC2 Directed by Jonathan Barker, Oliver Clark, Paul Barnett, Nigel Walk.

Coast Series 2 BBC Birmingham for 8 x 60. 2006 BBC2 Directed by Jonathan Barker,Oliver Clark, Paul Barnett, Nigel Walk.

Map Man Series 2 DigiBeta for BBC2 Director/Producer: Michael Waterhouse. 2005

Coast Christmas BBC2 Lead-presenter in two one-hour films compiled from Special the 13 episodes in Series 1. 2005

Coast Series 1 BBC2 13 x 60. 2005 Lead-presenter in an epic series of 13 one-hour films that explored the coast of Britain and in what would become a landmark brand for the BBC.

Map Man Series 1 BBC2 Presenter of 8 thirty-minute films in which Nick 2004 explored modern landscapes using historic maps and various means of transport ranging from walking boots to a Triumph Bonneville motorbike.

The Pyrenees BBC2 Nick repeated a Pyrenean section of his European 1998 walk from Gavarnie to the Ordesa Canyon, with series presenter Cameron McNeish.

United Agents | 12-26 Lexington Street London W1F OLE | T +44 (0) 20 3214 0800 | F +44 (0) 20 3214 0801 | E [email protected] Production Company Notes Blazing Pedals Central TV/National Co-presenter with Matt Dickinson and Chris Bradley of 1990 Geographic a one-hour film recording the first end-to-end bicycle traverse of the High Atlas Mountains in North Africa.

Other

Production Company Notes High Trails to Producer and Cameraman. Istanbul This one-hour film was filmed by Nick (topped & tailed by a crew 1995 from Zanzibar Films) during his 17-month, 10,000-kilometre walk across Europe, following the continent’s mountain ranges from Spain to Turkey.

Radio

Production Company Notes From Ancient Produced by Using the Roman writer Pausanias as a guide, Nick and Sparta to the Simon Elmes, Everest-climber Matt Dickinson hiked the savage Taygetus Gates of Hell BBC Radio Mountains in Southern Greece, from Sparta to Cape Matapan.

Forbidden Produced by A two-part documentary recorded by Nick during a Journey Simon Elmes, wartime mission to deliver humanitarian aid to refugees in BBC Radio the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan in 1988.

Journey to the Produced by Co-presenter with Dr Richard Crane. This two-part Centre of the Simon Elmes, documentary was recorded by Nick and Richard during Earth BBC Radio their record-setting bicycle ride over the Himalayas, across Tibet and the Gobi Desert, to the Pole of Inaccessibility.

United Agents | 12-26 Lexington Street London W1F OLE | T +44 (0) 20 3214 0800 | F +44 (0) 20 3214 0801 | E [email protected]