Phil Chapman

Phil Chapman is currently a Series Producer, and began his career at the BBC Natural History Unit in 1992 as an Assistant Producer. He has gone on to have a highly prolific career producing a number of outstanding programmes. These include Deadly Vipers in 2000 about venomous and dangerous snakes, and Hippo Beach in 2001, both for the Natural World strand.

He then progressed to act as a Series Producer on a number of successful series including the highly acclaimed Wild China in 2008.

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.