Life

Born John Surgeon Macnish in Carlisle, England 25 September 1956. Educated Austin Friars School

Austin Friars St Monica's School

Austin Friars Saint Monica's School, more commonly known as "Austin Friars", is a relatively small Roman Catholic independent school located in the City of Carlisle, England. The Senior School provides secondary education for 350 boys and girls aged 11–18. There are 150 children aged 4–11 in the...

, Carlisle then Sheffield University, degree in Prehistory & Archaeology.
Television producer who worked for the BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

 before setting up his own company Circlevision Ltd in 1991. Senior Lecturer & course leader in Television Production at the University of Central Lancashire

University of Central Lancashire

The University of Central Lancashire is a university based in Preston, Lancashire, England.The university has its roots in The Institution For The Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge which was founded in 1828. In 1992 it was granted University status by the Privy Council...

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Television career

After working as a lecturer at the BBC's Engineering Training Department John moved into mainstream TV production
at the BBC studios at Pebble Mill in Birmingham. He was studio director on the live lunchtime light entertainment show 'Daytime Live' and also directed 'The Chelsea Flower Show', 'Top Gear' and 'Scene Today'.
Between 1992 and 1994 John produced the award winning BBC series 'The Human Animal'

The Human Animal (TV series)

The Human Animal: A Personal View of the Human Species is a BBC nature documentary series written and presented by Desmond Morris, first transmitted in the UK from 27 July 1994...

 written and presented by renowned zoologist Desmond Morris

Desmond Morris

Desmond John Morris, born 24 January 1928 in Purton, north Wiltshire, is a British zoologist and ethologist, as well as a popular anthropologist. He is also known as a painter, television presenter and popular author.-Life:...

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In 1996 he produced 'Salmon Against the Tides' presented by Sir David Attenborough a co-production between the BBC & Discovery US.
In 1991 John set up Circlevision Productions in partnership with his wife Jayne. The company went on to produce commercial productions and broadcast series including the notable BBC space science series "Final Frontier" & the observational documentary series following the Beagle 2

Beagle 2

Beagle 2 was an unsuccessful British landing spacecraft that formed part of the European Space Agency's 2003 Mars Express mission. All contact with it was lost upon its separation from the Mars Express six days before its scheduled entry into the atmosphere...

 project to look for life on Mars led by Prof. Colin Pillinger

Colin Pillinger

Colin Trevor Pillinger, CBE, is a planetary scientist at the Open University in the UK. He was the principal investigator for the British Beagle 2 Mars lander project, and has done much work studying a group of Martian meteorites.In May 2005 Pillinger was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.-Early...

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John Macnish's Production credits include: Series Producer Scrapheap Challenge

Scrapheap Challenge

Scrapheap Challenge is an engineering game show produced by RDF Media and broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK. In the show, teams of contestants have 10 hours in which to build a working machine that can do a specific task, using materials available in a scrapheap. The format was exported to the...

 Channel 4. Series producer 'Beagle 2-A Mission to Mars' BBC. Series Producer Personal Passions BBC. Producer Watercolour Challenge Channel 4. Producer Future Weapons

Future Weapons

Future Weapons, sometimes also written as FutureWeapons and Futureweapons, is a documentary television series that premiered on April 19, 2006 on the Discovery Channel. Host Richard "Mack" Machowicz, a former Navy SEAL, reviews and demonstrates the latest modern weaponry and military technology...

- Discovery Channel. Antiques Road Trip - BBC