Tom Hugh-Jones

Tom Hugh-Jones is part of the production team for Planet Earth

Tom Hugh-Jones currently works as a Producer at the BBC Natural History Unit. After graduating with a degree in zoology, he joined the BBC on a work experience placement and developed his skill to take on the role of Assistant Producer on the Natural World series and Steve Leonard's Extreme Animals.

He then progressed to act as the Producer on the award-winning and highly acclaimed Planet Earth, presented by Sir David Attenborough, followed by the outstanding Ganges, in 2007. While Producer on Unknown Africa in 2008, he was almost lost at sea off the coast of Angola in an inflatable motor boat!

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.