Mark has appeared on a great many TV programmes over the years, including the following:
Last Chance to See (BBC2, 2009) Mark presented this popular six-part BBC-TV series with actor and comedian Stephen Fry, in which the unlikely duo travelled the world in search of a motley collection of endangered species (following in the footsteps of a similar journey Mark made with Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, 20 years earlier). Click here for more information.
Primate time, with Stephen Fry and brown lemurs,
while filming Last Chance to See in Madagascar
Mark with Lord of the Rings film-maker, Peter Jackson,
and Stephen Fry while filming Last Chance to See
in New Zealand
Mark and Stephen Fry while filming Last Chance to See
in the Amazon
Mark meets Max the southern white rhino during the
making of Last Chance to See (Max was poached in 2011)
Return of the Rhino: Last Chance to See Special (BBC2, 2010) Mark co-presented this Last Chance to See special with Stephen Fry, following attempts to move the world's rarest rhinos from a snowy zoo in the Czech Republic, to the expanses of Kenya in the hope that they will breed in the wild. Click here for more information.
Mark and Stephen Fry in Return of the Rhino:
Last Chance to See Special, with a northern white rhino
Unloading a northern white rhino after its flight from Czech Republic to Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya, in Return of the Rhino: Last Chance to See Special
The Great American Oil Spill (BBC2, 2010) Mark and Stephen Fry went to report on the impact of BP's massive oil spill in Louisiana – dubbed the worst ecological disaster in the history of America.
Mark and Stephen in Louisiana, investigating the 2010 oil spill
Museum of Life (BBC2, 2010) Mark co-presented this six-part BBC-TV series, delving behind the scenes at London’s Natural History Museum, to explore its pioneering and often surprising research work and wildlife collections. The Museum granted BBC cameras unprecedented access and they filmed museum projects elsewhere in the UK and all over the world.
Museum of Life team: (left to right) Liz Bonnin, Kate Bellinghham, Jimmy Doherty,
Mark and Chris van Tulleken
Mark inspects a sturgeon in Museum of Life
A now-notorious intimate moment with Sirocco the kakapo during the making of Last Chance to See
Mark presenting Return of the Rhino: Last Chance to See Special with Stephen Fry
Transporting Sudan, the last male northern white rhino by plane from Czech Republic to Kenya in Return of the Rhino: Last Chance to See Special (who sadly died in 2018)
Checking a critically endangered Kemp's ridley turtle which was a a casualty in The Great American Oil Spill
Mark (with Darwin) presenting in Museum of Life
Mark (with a T-rex), presenting in Museum of Life
Mark meeting an Aldabra tortoise, with Carl Jones
in Museum of Life
Mark presented the weekly half-hour programme Nature on BBC Radio 4 for many years. He has also presented dozens of other two-, three- and four-part series on BBC Radio 4 on a wide variety of wildlife, travel and conservation subjects – everything from whale-watching to the Moon. And, way back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, he provided the daily Environment News bulletin for Steve Wright in the Afternoon,
on BBC Radio 1.
Mark broadcasting on BBC Radio 4
In 1989, Mark joined forces with Douglas Adams to present the much-acclaimed and classic Last Chance to See on BBC Radio 4. They chose species in imminent peril – aye-aye, Komodo dragon, kakapo, northern white rhino, Yangtze river dolphin, Rodrigues flying fox, Juan Fernández fur seal and Amazonian manatee. Click here for more information.
Mark (on right), Douglas Adams (in front),
during making of Radio 4's Last Chance to See,
in Madagascar
Mark with Douglas Adams
in Robinson Crusoe’s cave on the Juan Fernández Islands,
during the making of Radio 4's Last Chance to See
Mark during the making of a Radio 4 Nature programme where he recorded a show about great white sharks almost entirely under water in a shark cage, Guadalupe, Mexico
Douglas Adams and Mark, with Ralph the kakapo, during the making of Radio 4's Last Chance to See in 1989
For business enquiries only,
please contact Mark’s project manager,
Rachel Ashton
5 Chesterfield Road
Bristol
BS6 5DN
United Kingdom