Neil Nightingale

Neil Nightingale is part of the production team for Planet Earth

Neil Nightingale is the Creative Director of BBC Earth, the global brand for all the BBC’s natural history productions. In this role he develops new forms of wildlife content, including feature films, 3D and 4D productions, live events and exhibitions.

Neil has a long and prolific career in nature programming. He was Head of the Natural History Unit between 2003 and 2009, responsible for around 1,000 hours of award-winning programmes on television, radio, online and for the cinema, including Planet Earth, Life, Wild China, Big Cat Diary, Nature's Most Amazing Events, Expedition Borneo, Galapagos and Elephant Diary, to name but a few.

Planet Earth Live
Life is Sharing

  • Planet Earth Live is the biggest live wildlife broadcast ever undertaken.

  • As a child, Richard Hammond started his own wildlife club and armed with a nature kit set out to study the wildlife in his Solihull garden.

  • In Africa, Richard will be joining Kenyan elephant researcher David Daballen who knows more than 700 of the Samburu elephants by name.

  • Our closest relatives, the chimps and gorillas, laugh when tickled.

  • Dolphins can point with their bodies and have been known to communicate an object's location to human divers.

  • Flamingos are only red because of the food they eat.