Martha Holmes is a BAFTA award winning BBC Television

BBC Television

BBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation. The corporation, which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927, has produced television programmes from its own studios since 1932, although the start of its regular service of television...

 producer and writer known for her wildlife documentaries.

Biography

Holmes studied for a PhD in marine biology at the University of York

University of York

The University of York , is an academic institution located in the city of York, England. Established in 1963, the campus university has expanded to more than thirty departments and centres, covering a wide range of subjects...

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She started work at the BBC in 1988 hosting a live underwater broadcast from the northern Red Sea

Red Sea

The Red Sea is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden. In the north, there is the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Gulf of Suez...

 for Reefwatch, and the award-winning wildlife adventures series Sea Trek.

She joined the production team for Life in the Freezer

Life in the Freezer

Life in the Freezer is a BBC nature documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, first transmitted in the UK from 18 November 1993....

and produced BBC Wildlife Specials

BBC Wildlife Specials

The BBC Wildlife Specials are a series of nature documentary programmes commissioned by BBC Television. The Wildlife Specials began with a pilot episode in 1995. A further 15 programmes were made over the next decade, and more recently the format has been expanded into two short series...

episode on the Polar Bear

Polar Bear

The polar bear is a bear native largely within the Arctic Circle encompassing the Arctic Ocean, its surrounding seas and surrounding land masses. It is the world's largest land carnivore and also the largest bear, together with the omnivorous Kodiak Bear, which is approximately the same size...

 for which she won the Best Factual Photography at the 1998 BAFTAs.

The Good Fish Guide

Holmes joined a conservationist campaign to boycott 20 varieties of fish because of the impact of over-fishing on their numbers and the environment.
She wrote the introduction to the The Good Fish Guide which accompanied the campaign.

Filmography

• Reefwatch (1988), presenter
• Sea Trek (1991), presenter
• Life in the Freezer
  Life in the Freezer
  Life in the Freezer is a BBC nature documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, first transmitted in the UK from 18 November 1993....
  
  (1993) production team
• BBC Wildlife Specials
  BBC Wildlife Specials
  The BBC Wildlife Specials are a series of nature documentary programmes commissioned by BBC Television. The Wildlife Specials began with a pilot episode in 1995. A further 15 programmes were made over the next decade, and more recently the format has been expanded into two short series...
  
  : Polar Bear (1997), producer
• The Blue Planet
  The Blue Planet
  The Blue Planet is a BBC nature documentary series narrated by David Attenborough, first transmitted in the UK from 12 September 2001.Described as "the first ever comprehensive series on the natural history of the world's oceans", each of the eight 50-minute episodes examines a different aspect of...
  
  (2001), producer
• The Nile
  The Nile (TV series)
  Nile is a 2004 BBC Television documentary that tells the history and natural history of the Nile.-Production:The series was produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in co-production with the Discovery Channel....
  
  (2004), series producer
• The Man-Eating Lions of Njombe (2005), producer
• The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag (2005), producer
• The Man-Eating Wolves of Gysinge (2005), producer
• The Making of 'Deep Blue' (2006), segment producer

External links

• Biography at BBC Nature
• Nile at BBC Press Office