After studying and graduating in Cancer Biology at the University of Bristol, he decided to pursue a career in wildlife filmmaking and was an integral crew member of the BBC productions Madagascar and more recently Attenborough: 60 years in the Wild.
After catching the attention of several producers Patrick wrote and presented a series of web episodes to accompany the David Attenborough series ‘Madagascar’. A naturally light-hearted approach coupled with the ability to be authoritative and engaging, provides him with a distinct ability crossover between children’s and primetime factual programming.
Hugely enjoying the creativity of television Patrick was delighted to be asked to present BBC’s online natural history strand Zoo La La, a weekly show about weird and wonderful animal facts that launched the brand new BBC/YouTube platform, Earth Unplugged.
After this Patrick’s career was on clear trajectory as from there he presented Supersenses a specialist factual show for BBC2.
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, SKYONE invited him to be the sole host of a collection of Natural History programming for SKY ONE. This included Dogs: An Amazing Animal Family, Monkeys: An Amazing Animal Family on Sky1 and Cats: An Amazing Animal Family.
Cats produced an RTS award win for the team and an RTS West Award for best Presenter for Patrick.
Cats was so successful with children it was also made into exclusive content for children when it ‘Wild Files” series, again for SKY ONE.
Returning to the BBC Patrick then co-presented Natures’s Miracle Orphans, Amazing Animals and Super Small Animals all for BBC1 and Yellowstone for BBC2
Continuing his projects at SKYONE Patrick travelled the world filming shows in 4k such as Wild Animal Babies and Big Beasts, Last of the Giants.
Patrick is a regular contributor on The One Show, Countryfile and will be co-hosting Springwatch 2018
Noticing his rich baritone voice he has been asked to narrate the National Geographic reversion specials of Planet Earth Live and he also hosted Radio 4’s natural history production The Listeners.
Patrick’s scientific knowledge is vast and his personal interest in everything technical and natural history gives him the potential to be a unique and brilliant factual science & wildlife presenter. His mantra is… ‘Let’s get the lab into the field!’
Credits
Credits
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DateProduction (role)Company
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Date: 2016Production (role): Monkeys (Presenter)Company: Offspring Films for Sky1
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Date: 2016Production (role): Yellowstone (Co-Presenter)Company: BBC Bristol for BBC2
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Date: 2016Production (role): Nature's Miracle Orphans (Co-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): Cats (Presenter)Company: Offspring Films for Sky1
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Date: 2015Production (role): Countryfile (Contributor)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 (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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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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