Profile: Stephen WilkinsonI am a former BBC commissioning editor and executive producer in BBC Science. An award winning director and executive producer, with over 25 years experience in documentary film-making, I have also conceived award winning TV formats and brought new talent to the screen, including Brian Cox, Bettany Hughes and Ian Stewart... Read More

Profile: Stephen WilkinsonI am a former BBC commissioning editor and executive producer in BBC Science. An award winning director and executive producer, with over 25 years experience in documentary film-making, I have also conceived award winning TV formats and brought new talent to the screen, including Brian Cox, Bettany Hughes and Ian StewartI am currently co-producing a series of films for the US-based factual channel, CuriosityStream, recently launched by Discovery founder John Hendricks. Hubble’s Imager, produced with NASA, is the highest rating programme on the channel with 98% appreciation. Other programmes include, The Manot Skull, selected for their top ten shows of the year, telling the story of the discovery of the skull of the oldest known human outside Africa. Programmes in production include In Search of Sappho, telling how a fragment of papyri led an Oxford professor to an unknown poem by Sappho; Quantum Cosmology, how quantum gravity and ‘many worlds’ is rewriting quantum theory, with Carlo Rovelli and Sir Roger Penrose.For BBC Science, I have delivered programmes into prime-time slots across all BBC channels, including: BBC ONE/Discovery Bermuda Triangle: Beneath The Waves (the UK’s highest rating factual programme for the year with over 7 million viewers.); BBC ONE BodySnatchers; BBC TWO Rough Science; BBC THREE Magic Number; BBC FOUR Profiles; BBC FOUR Horizon Revisited; BBC ONE/TWO Space -Flying Visits; BBC FOUR To Mars By A-bomb – The Secret History of the Orion Project.As Executive Editor, responsible for the BBC Archaeology Unit, I delivered a series of 6 x 60’ Meet The Ancestors documentaries; 3 x 30’ What The Tudors Did For Us; 3 x 30’ What the Stuarts Did For Us.At Brook Lapping Productions I built from scratch BL Education; managing the department of over 30 producers, delivering 120 programmes per year to the UK Government’s Teachers TV channel. Along side that I created and launched the global science channel, Newton, in partnership with the Guardian Media Group. Producing over 100 science documentaries I worked with leading scientists across the world, including; Stephen Pinker, Robert Winston, Steve Jones and Marcus du Sautoy. I also gave a young Manchester physicist, Brian Cox, his first documentary series, In Search of Giants.As Commissioning Editor BBC/OU Partnership I created All Night Star Party, a live astronomy event on BBC TWO, now a fixture as Stargazing Live; Rough Science BBC TWO giving many young scientists their first TV opportunities, including; Iain Stewart, Hermione Cockburn, Kathy Sykes, Mike Leahy.In 2016, I was executive producer on the feature documentary, ‘The Secret Life of Materials’ for MetFilm Productions. It was Winner Best Film – International Science Festival Athens; Winner Prague Life Sciences Festival and nominated, Paris International Science Film Festival. Other awards include: RTS Award, Wild Moves; RTS Award, Passion for Science; BAFTA Nomination, Interactive Entertainment Rough Science; Beijing International Film Festival, Rough Science. I am a member of BAFTA Read Less