Christopher Riley

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Co-Producer & Assistant Director: In the Shadow of the Moon
Co-Producer & Assistant Director: In the Shadow of the Moon

Christopher Riley (born 1967) is a British writer, broadcaster and film maker specialising in the history of science. He has a PhD from Imperial College, University of London where he pioneered the use of digital elevation models in the study of mountain range geomorphology and evolution.

For the last fifteen years he has worked in the field of public engagement in science.

He makes frequent appearances on British television and radio, broadcasting mainly on space flight, astronomy and planetary science. He is a veteran of two NASA astrobiology missions (Leonid MAC) from 1998 and 1999 – reporting on their progress for BBC news. He co-presented the BBC's coverage of the 1999 and 2001 solar eclipses, and fronted their astronomy magazine show Final Frontier, their cosmology series Journeys in Time and Space, and their live All Night Star Party – a co-production with the Open University. In 2006 he wrote and presented BBC Radio 4's cosmology series The Cosmic Hunters.

Behind the camera he has written and directed more than 50 films for the BBC's classic science magazine show Tomorrow's World and was a producer and director on series six of Rough Science. In 2004 he produced the BBC's two part drama documentary Space Odyssey: Voyage To The Planets. He was the science consultant on the BBC's remakes of their science fiction cult classics A for Andromeda (2006) and The Quatermass Experiment (2005). He directed and produced on the feature documentary film In the Shadow of the Moon, which premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the World Cinema Audience Documentary Award. The film was released in the US and Europe during the autumn of 2007.

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In 2005 he was given an Arthur Clarke Award for his work producing the BBC's Space Odyssey series. The same year he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society for his endeavours in communicating astronomy to the public. His films and TV series on the history of science have won a nomination from the Royal Television Society and the World Cinema Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival 2007.

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He has directed, produced, science consulted or hosted on the following films & TV series (incomplete):

  • 2007 In the Shadow of the Moon, Film 4, THINK Film, Discovery Films
  • 2006 A for Andromeda
  • 2005 Rough Science, Series 6, BBC TV
  • 2005 Quatermass
  • 2004 Space Odyssey: voyage to the planets, BBC TV, Discovery Channel
  • 2004 Space Odyssey: the robot pioneers, BBC TV, Discovery Channel
  • 2003 All Night Star Party, BBC TV
  • 2002 Can't Get Enough, BBC TV
  • 2002 Tomorrow's World, Series 38, BBC TV
  • 2001 Secret Life of Ghosts and Werewolves, BBC TV
  • 2001 Tomorrow's World, Series 37, BBC TV
  • 2001 Final Frontier, BBC TV
  • 2001 Journeys in Time and Space, BBC TV
  • 2000 Tomorrow's World, Series 36, BBC TV
  • 1999 Eclipse Live, BBC TV
  • 1999 The Planets, BBC TV

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He has co-written or contributed to the following books:

  • Haines, Tim and Riley, Christopher (October 2004). Space Odyssey: voyage to the planets (in English). BBC Books, 192pp. ISBN 90-5210-593-6. 
  • (June 2001) in Ridpath, Ian: Collins Encyclopedia of the Universe (in English). Collins, 384pp. ISBN 0007105851. 


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