As a biologist and self-confessed thrill seeker, Patrick has always had a fascination with ‘how things work’. His guiding force is to allow his audience to travel the globe from the comfort of their homes and live vicariously through his daringly close animal encounters. His latest series executes/demonstrates to perfection/perfectly. ‘Big Beasts: Last of the Giants’, sees Patrick check out the biggest animals on Earth and discovers why size really matters in nature. His journey takes him to Asia where he comes face-to-face with the Komodo dragon, right across to the Americas, where he free dives with a gigantic sperm whale weighing in at 15-tonnes. He ultimately explores why these creatures evolved into giants, and how crucial they are to their habitats today.
Patrick has a versatile presenting style which has allowed him a host a variety of programmes; from the epic ‘Amazing Animal Family’ franchise, to the expedition of ‘Yellowstone’s: Wildest Winter’, the heart-warming ‘Nature’s Miracle Orphans’, to the fact filled ‘Super Senses’.
Patrick’s career in wildlife filmmaking began shortly after graduating with a degree in Molecular & Cellular Biology at the University of Bristol. He worked behind the scenes on the BBC productions Madagascar, Attenborough: 60 years in the Wild and Frozen Planet. Hugely enjoying the creativity of television Patrick was delighted to be asked to present BBC Earth’s online natural history strand Zoo-La-La, a weekly show about weird and wonderful animal facts that helped launch the BBC Earth YouTube platform, Earth Unplugged.
After this, Patrick’s career went from strength to strength, there he presented Super Senses a specialist factual show for BBC Two. The series – which evidently was Patrick’s first TV appearance – explored the extraordinary world of animal senses. In each episode Patrick focused on key themes; sight, sound and scent across five continents, thus revealing the amazing super senses of the animal world.
Seeing his passion and expertise, Sky One commissioned him to host a collection of six natural history programmes. This included ‘Big Cats: An Amazing Animal Family’, which went on to win Patrick the RTS West Award for Best Presenter. Big Cats was so successful with children it was also made into exclusive online series ‘Big Cat Wild Files’, for Sky Kids.
Returning to the BBC Patrick then co-presented Natures Miracle Orphans, Ingenious Animals and Super Small Animals. Continuing his projects at Sky One Patrick travelled the world filming a two more 4K series, ‘Wild Animal Babies’ and ‘Big Beasts: Last of the Giants’. Patrick is a regular contributor on The One Show, and will be co-hosting Springwatch 2018
Credits
Credits
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DateProduction (role)Company
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Date: 2018Production (role): Springwatch (Presenter)Company: BBC2
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Date: 2018Production (role): BIG BEASTS: Last of the Giants (Presenter)Company: Offspring Files
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Date: 2017Production (role): MONKEYS AND APES: Wild Files (Presenter)Company: Offspring Files for Sky Kids
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Date: 2017Production (role): Super Small Animals (Presenter)Company: BBC Studios for BBC1
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Date: 2017Production (role): BIG CATS: Wild Files (Presenter)Company: Offspring Films for Sky Kids
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Date: 2017Production (role): DOGS: An Amazing Animal Family (Presenter)Company: Offspring Films for Sky One
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Date: 2017Production (role): MONKEYS: An Amazing Animal Family (Presenter)Company: Offspring Films for Sky One
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Date: 2017Production (role): BIG CATS: An Amazing Animal Family (Presenter)Company: Offspring Films
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Date: 2016Production (role): Yellowstone: Wildest Winter (Presenter)Company: BBC Bristol for BBC2
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Date: 2016Production (role): Nature's Miracle Orphans (Presenter)Company: BBC In-House for BBC1
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Date: 2015Production (role): Amazing Animals (Co- Presenter)Company: Oxford Scientific Films for BBC1
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Date: 2015Production (role): Big Cats: An Amazing Animal Family (Presenter)Company: Offspring Films for Sky One
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Date: 2015Production (role): Countryfile (Presenter)Company: BBC Production for BBC1
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Date: 2015Production (role): The Science of Fun for The One Show (Presenter)Company: BBC Production for BBC1
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Date: 2015Production (role): The Science of Dry for The One Show (Presenter)Company: BBC Production for BBC1
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Date: 2014Production (role): Super Senses - The Secret Power of Animals (Presenter)Company: BBC Production for BBC2
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Date: 2013Production (role): Zoo La La: The Natural History of Regeneration (Presenter)Company: BBC Unplugged/YouTube
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Date: 2012Production (role): Zoo La La: African Penguin Christmas Special (Presenter)Company: BBC Unplugged/YouTube
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Date: 2012Production (role): Zoo La La: Nice Shot! The Extraordinary Archerfish (Presenter)Company: BBC Unplugged/YouTube
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Date: 2012Production (role): Zoo La La: Movember mania in the animal kingdom (Presenter)Company: BBC Unplugged/YouTube
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Date: 2012Production (role): Zoo La La: Why are Zebras stripy? (Presenter)Company: BBC Unplugged/YouTube
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Date: 2012Production (role): Zoo La La: Are you afraid of the octopus? (Presenter)Company: BBC Unplugged/YouTube
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Date: 2012Production (role): Zoo La La: What is Zoo La La? (Presenter)Company: BBC Unplugged/YouTube
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Date: 2011Production (role): Madagascar: Madagascar - behind the scenes with the music (Presenter)Company: BBC Online
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Date: 2011Production (role): Madagascar: A little piece of Madagascar… in Switzerland! (Presenter)Company: BBC Online
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Date: 2011Production (role): Madagascar: The lemur of the lake (Presenter)Company: BBC Online
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Date: 2010Production (role): Wu How-The Ninja Guide to Everything: Episode 2 (Presenter)Company: BBC3
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Date: 2010Production (role): BBC Three - Wu How-The Ninja Guide to Everything: Episode 1 (Presenter)Company: BBC3
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DateProduction (role)Company
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Date: 2013Production (role): The Listeners: InfrasoundCompany: BBC Radio 4
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Date: 2013Production (role): The Listeners: UltrasoundCompany: BBC Radio 4
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Date: 2012Production (role): Planet Earth Live-Evergreens: MonkeysCompany: National Geographic/BBC
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Date: 2012Production (role): Planet Earth Live-Evergreens: ElephantsCompany: National Geographic/BBC
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Date: 2012Production (role): Planet Earth Live-Evergreens: LionsCompany: National Geographic/BBC
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Date: 2012Production (role): Planet Earth Live-Evergreens: Black BearsCompany: National Geographic/BBC
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DateProduction (role)Project details
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Date: 2015Production (role): RTS West AwardProject details: Winner of New On Screen Talent Award
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