Who is Lucy Cooke and why is she famous?
Lucy Cooke is a New York Times best-selling author, award-winning documentary producer, presenter and National Geographic explorer with a master's in zoology from Oxford University. She is a passionate conservationist and champion of animal species that are often misunderstood.
What radio shows has Lucy Lucy been on?
Lucy’s knowledge and humour have made her a regular guest on The Infinite Monkey Cage (Radio 4), and The Museum of Curiosity (Radio 4). She has also guested on Radio 4’s Women’s Hour and Midweek, Cerys Matthews (Radio 6) and in the US, RadioLab and Weekend Edition on NPR.
What is Lucy Gutteridge up to now?
In 2019 Lucy can be seen flexing her animal expertise in the US on the new Animal Planet series Nature’s Strangest Mysteries: Solved as well as encouraging the world to love bats on the 90 minute documentary special Into the Bat Cave (BBC4)
Who is Lucy Graziano?
Lucy is a passionate conservationist and a champion of species that are often misunderstood. Her style is immersive and insightful yet unashamedly populist: mixing rigorous science with great story-telling and her irreverent humour to reach the widest possible audience.
What is Lucy's blog about?
Her Amphibian Avenger blog, highlighting her adventures investigating the amphibian extinction crisis became a cult hit and was described by the Times as ‘an internet sensation. ’
What is Lucy's latest book?
Lucy’s latest book The Unexpected Truth About Animals is published by Black Swan in the UK and was short-listed for the prestigious Royal Society Science prize (2018). In the US it is published by Basic Books under the title The Truth About Animals and was long-listed for the AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize.
What is Lucy's current project?
She is currently working on a documentary about the smallest and strangest of sloth species: the critically endangered pygmy sloth of Panama. Lucy has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, The Sunday Times, Telegraph, Daily Mail and Huffington Post.
Who is Lucy the sloth?
Lucy is one of the world’s leading experts on the strange biology of the sloth and founded the Sloth Appreciation Society to both promote and protect the world’s slowest mammal and it’s languorous lifestyle. Her sloth viral videos have been watched by millions and featured on dozens of TV shows from GMA to Ellen to Tonight with John Oliver, earning her the reputation of being ‘the Steven Spielberg of sloth filmmaking.’ She is currently working on a documentary about the smallest and strangest of sloth species: the critically endangered pygmy sloth of Panama.
Where did Lucy go to film?
Lucy spent the first half of her broadcast career as a writer/producer/director of primetime television documentary series for PBS, BBC, Channel 4 and Discovery, which took her to the furthest corners of the planet to film remote people and places . She drank honey wine with the fiercest tribe in East Africa, politely ate dog with the opium growing mountain people of Laos, hung out with cave-dwelling Kurdish activists in Turkey and met a fearsome jaguar hunter in Brazil.
Who is Lucy on Springwatch?
Lucy is an experienced live broadcaster. In 2018 she joined the Springwatch team on BBC2, as a roving reporter and co-hosting the live broadcast. The same year she also co-hosted The Beach Live (nominated for a Broadcast award in 2019) with historian Dan Snow ( BBC4) and was one of the presenters on the ambitious Easter Eggs Live ( Channel 4)
Who is Lucy from Freaks and Creeps?
Lucy is a familiar face of natural history broadcasting in both the UK and US. She began her presenting career hosting Freaks and Creeps (National Geographic Wild), a series based on her passion to highlight the weird and wonderful lives of species that often get over-looked in favour of charismatic megafauna.
