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Nigel Marven
Nigel Marven (2008)
Born1960
United Kingdom
Occupationtelevision presenter of nature documentary
Websitehttp://www.nigelmarven.com/

Nigel Marven (born 1960) is a British wildlife presenter, television producer, author, and ornithologist.

Career

Marven studied botany at Bristol University until the age of 22 when he left to begin his career at the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol. Over the following years he worked firstly as a wildlife documentary researcher for such programmes as My Family and Other Animals then went on to produce such series as The Land of the Russian Bear. He enjoyed a 12-year professional collaboration with David Attenborough whom he holds in high esteem. In 1998, he moved to ITV where, to his surprise, he found himself being asked to present wildlife documentaries as well as producing them.

He is known[citation needed] for his unorthodox, spontaneous, and daring style of presenting wildlife documentaries as well as for including factual knowledge into the proceedings. This has led some people to compare him to Steve Irwin[citation needed]. In his first television series for ITV, Giants, he swam with a great white shark without the protection of a cage. Other scenes included him having a goliath birdeater spider, arguably the largest spider in the world, walk over his face, and grappling with a fifteen-foot rock python deep in its underground lair. This style of presenting has won him many viewers[citation needed] to his succeeding series and to date he has presented 21 wildlife series for TV.

In 2003 the Impossible Pictures production company asked him to present in the Walking with Dinosaurs episodes Chased by Dinosaurs: The Giant Claw & Land Of Giants, and then Sea Monsters. Then he moved on to Prehistoric Park on ITV, a fictional series about travelling back in time to rescue examples of extinct creatures such as a Tyrannosaurus, Woolly Mammoth, Arthropleura and other prehistoric animals.

During a simulated prehistoric mammal encounter in the latter series, Marven declared himself a 'vegetarian'. Throughout the series he applies the same term to naturally herbivorous animals. In December 2007 his latest series Polar Bear Adventures with Nigel Marven appeared on Channel Five.

Fund Raising

Nigel Marven ran the 2008 London marathon in 4 hours 4 minutes to try to raise £20,000 for the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society UK.[1]

Television

Bibliography

[2][3][4]

  • Identifying snakes: the new compact study guide and identifier - by Ken Preston-Mafham, Nigel Marven and Rob Harvey, Chartwell Books, 1996, ISBN 0785803718
  • Incredible Journeys - BBC Books, 1997, ISBN 056338736X
  • Giants - Collins, 1999, ISBN 0002201577
  • Around the World Making Wildlife Films - Oxford University Press, 2000, ISBN 0198338422
  • Nigel Marven’s Animal Vampires - Scholastic, 2000, ISBN 0439999472
  • Nigel Marven’s Giant Creepy Crawlies - Scholastic, 2000, ISBN 0439999480
  • Sea Monsters by Nigel Marven and Jasper James - BBC Books, 2003, ISBN 0563488980, 167 pages, hardback
  • Bugs, Beetles, Spiders Snakes Complete Identifier - by Ken Preston-Mafham, Nigel Marven and Rob Harvey, Brockhampton Press Inc., 2004, ISBN 1845660099
  • Chased By Sea Monsters by Nigel Marven and Jasper James, DK ADULT, 2004, ISBN 978-0756603755
  • Dinosaurs - Kingfisher publications 2007, ISBN 9780753414743, 63 pages, hardback
  • Prehistoric Park with Poster - adapted by Susan Evento, created by Jasper James, Meredith Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0696236914, 48 pages.

References

  1. ^ Marven, Nigel. "Nigel Marven's Fundraising Page".
  2. ^ http://www.nigelmarven.com/meet4.asp - accessed 24 April 2008
  3. ^ www.amazon.co.uk accessed 24 April 2008
  4. ^ www.amazon.com accessed 24 April 2008
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