Miles Barton Go back to People
Miles Barton is currently a Series Producer in the BBC Natural History Unit. He has produced a number of award-winning films for the Wildlife on One and Natural World strands, and clips from many of his programmes can be seen on the BBC Earth website. These include those from Sir David Attenborough’s Life of Birds in 1998. He produced the fascinating, Cousins in 2000 and was the Series Producer of the prehistoric Wild New World series in 2002.
Miles was Series Producer of Life in Cold Blood, again with Sir David Attenborough, taking a warm hearted look at reptile and amphibian behaviour, for which he won a BAFTA and Wildscreen’s Golden Panda award for best series.
His most recent work was as a Producer on Frozen Planet and is currently Series Producer on the upcomingAttenborough: 60 Years in the Wild.
It has been a dramatic contrast to go from avoiding heatstroke while filming reptiles in the tropics to avoiding frostbite with polar bears and penguins at the poles for Frozen Planet.
To be the last crew to film the Panamanian golden toad in the wild and cover its rescue into captivity was particularly poignant.
Life in Cold Blood was a wonderful opportunity for me as an enthusiast of all things cold blooded, to film the most extreme creatures of the reptile world. To encounter giant tortoises emerging from the mist on a crater on the Galapagos and visiting Madagascar to help Sir David Attenborough fulfil a 50-year-old ambition to see the world's smallest chameleon was a real pleasure.
