Directing
Ben Southwell
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Directing
Credits
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Ben Southwell is a British television producer and director who has worked in prime-time factual programming for nearly three decades. His credits span history, travel, science, genealogy and natural-history television, including Fake or Fortune?, Who Do You Think You Are?, Rick Stein’s Road to Mexico, Last Chance to See, The Real History of Science Fiction and programmes with Ray Mears. He also teaches documentary and unscripted television storytelling.
Known for
6.0Become a paleontologist and piece together the facts behind these real-life monsters. Experience the process of discovery from start to finish - the excitement of digging, reconstruction, and the realization of what dinosaurs might actually have looked like.
Eyewitness: Dinosaur
1994
9.3Survival expert Ray Mears takes Ewan McGregor the chance to go on a trek of a lifetime. They go deep into the Honduran jungle in search of a lost civilisation.
Trips Money Can't Buy with Ewan McGregor
2001
7.3Twenty years after Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine traveled the world in search of some of the most endangered animals, Stephen Fry joins Mark to retrace their journeys.
Last Chance to See
2009
NRThe topic of the documentary is about snakes, lizards, crocodilians and turtles, their behaviour, and role in human cultures.
Eyewitness: Reptile
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Behind the camera
6.0Become a paleontologist and piece together the facts behind these real-life monsters. Experience the process of discovery from start to finish - the excitement of digging, reconstruction, and the realization of what dinosaurs might actually have looked like.
Eyewitness: Dinosaur
1994
9.3Survival expert Ray Mears takes Ewan McGregor the chance to go on a trek of a lifetime. They go deep into the Honduran jungle in search of a lost civilisation.
Trips Money Can't Buy with Ewan McGregor
2001
9.3Survival expert Ray Mears takes Ewan McGregor the chance to go on a trek of a lifetime. They go deep into the Honduran jungle in search of a lost civilisation.
Trips Money Can't Buy with Ewan McGregor
2001
7.3Twenty years after Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine traveled the world in search of some of the most endangered animals, Stephen Fry joins Mark to retrace their journeys.
Last Chance to See
2009
NRThe topic of the documentary is about snakes, lizards, crocodilians and turtles, their behaviour, and role in human cultures.
Eyewitness: Reptile
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