Deborah Cadbury
Encyclopedia
Deborah Cadbury is an award-winning British
author
and BBC
television producer
specialising in fundamental issues of science and history, and their effects on modern society.
She has been making documentary programs for the BBC for over 20 years and has received numerous awards, including an Emmy, for her work on the BBC's Horizon strand.
Her film Assault On The Male launched a worldwide scientific research campaign into the hormone-mimicking chemicals that are harming human health.
Her 2000
book The Dinosaur Hunters that examined the bitter rivalry between the early fossil hunters who pieced together the evidence of a prehistoric world was turned into a TV film by Granada Productions
She produced the ground-breaking 2003 docudrama
Seven Wonders of the Industrial World
for which she also wrote the companion book.
Her 2003 book The Lost King Of France telling the tragic story of Marie Antoinette
’s favourite son is to be developed as a film by Lynda La Plante
.
United Kingdom
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and BBC
BBC
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television producer
Television producer
The primary role of a television Producer is to allow all aspects of video production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking...
specialising in fundamental issues of science and history, and their effects on modern society.
She has been making documentary programs for the BBC for over 20 years and has received numerous awards, including an Emmy, for her work on the BBC's Horizon strand.
Her film Assault On The Male launched a worldwide scientific research campaign into the hormone-mimicking chemicals that are harming human health.
Her 2000
2000 in literature
The year 2000 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* February 13 - Final original Peanuts comic strip is published...
book The Dinosaur Hunters that examined the bitter rivalry between the early fossil hunters who pieced together the evidence of a prehistoric world was turned into a TV film by Granada Productions
Granada Productions
Granada Productions was a British commercial television production and distribution company. The company took its name from the successful ITV franchise, Granada Television....
She produced the ground-breaking 2003 docudrama
Docudrama
In film, television programming and staged theatre, docudrama is a documentary-style genre that features dramatized re-enactments of actual historical events. As a neologism, the term is often confused with docufiction....
Seven Wonders of the Industrial World
Seven Wonders of the Industrial World
Seven Wonders of the Industrial World is a 7-part British documentary/docudrama television miniseries that originally aired from to on BBC...
for which she also wrote the companion book.
Her 2003 book The Lost King Of France telling the tragic story of Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette ; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was an Archduchess of Austria and the Queen of France and of Navarre. She was the fifteenth and penultimate child of Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa and Holy Roman Emperor Francis I....
’s favourite son is to be developed as a film by Lynda La Plante
Lynda La Plante
Lynda La Plante, CBE is an English author, screenwriter and former actress, best known for writing the Prime Suspect television crime series....
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Filmography
- Horizon: Dawn of the Clone Age (1997), writer & producer
- Seven Wonders of the Industrial WorldSeven Wonders of the Industrial WorldSeven Wonders of the Industrial World is a 7-part British documentary/docudrama television miniseries that originally aired from to on BBC...
(2003), series producer - End DayEnd DayEnd Day is a 2005 docu-drama produced by the BBC and aired on the National Geographic Channel, on the TV series, National Geographic Channel Presents, that depicts various doomsday scenarios. The documentary follows the fictional scientist Dr...
(2005), executive producer - Space RaceSpace Race (TV series)Space Race is a BBC docudrama series first shown in Britain on BBC2 between September and October 2005, chronicling the major events and characters in the American/Soviet space race up to the first landing of a man on the moon. It focuses on Sergei Korolev, the Soviet chief rocket designer, and...
(2005), series producer - Nuclear SecretsNuclear SecretsNuclear Secrets, aka Spies, Lies and the Superbomb, is a 2007 BBC Television docudrama series which looks at the race for nuclear supremacy from the Manhattan Project through to the Pakistani nuclear weapons.-Production:...
(2007), executive producer - In Search of Medieval Britain (2008), executive producer
- Inside the Medieval Mind (2008), executive producer