Simon King

Simon King, the wildlife cameraman extraordinaire, has been a fixture on Springwatch and the show it spawned, Autumnwatch, since 2005. King is the one out there getting buffeted by gale-force winds, drenched in buckets of rain, and dreaming up soft names for rutting deer.

King was born in Nairobi, Kenya but moved to the UK in 1964 and has been working in the field of Natural History film making for almost 30 years. King's body of work includes two series of King's Country and a series of King's Country Diary for the BBC.

The qualified scuba diver has to date written three books: Wild Guide, Wild Life and Shetland Diaries and a number of forewords and scripts for some of David Attenborough's films.

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.