BEHIND THE CAMERA
"Filming whatever actually happens, without all the hidden paraphernalia of a film crew, and whether in danger or lonely or undergoing various exotic rituals, he has effectively taken the viewers' experience of adventure as far as it can go."
The Sunday Times
PAVING THE WAY
Benedict Allen's television programmes have occasionally been made with the help of a camera-crew but more typically without.
This has allowed him unparalleled levels of immersion in isolated or unfamiliar societies and landscapes, those following in his footsteps including Bear Grylls - and indeed all the television adventurers that we are so familiar with today.
However, nothing was staged, nothing contrived. Unrestrained by Health and Safety rules and the many needs of a camera-crew and director, for better or worse here was the nitty-gritty reality of a genuine expedition.
No-one, including our presenter, could be sure what would happen next - or even if he would 'pull through.'
TV / FILMOGRAPHY
Productions Include
BBC TWO
RAIDERS OF THE LOST LAKE
1 hour, 1995
Camera
Sound
Director
Presenter
BBC TWO
The Skeleton coast
6-part series, 1997
Camera
Sound
Director
Presenter
BBC TWO
The bones of colonel fawcett
4-part series, 1998
Camera
Presenter
Writer
BBC TWO / NAT. GEOGRAPHIC
ICE DOGS
6-part series 2002
Camera
Sound
Director
BBC 2 / BBC FOUR
TRAVELLERS CENTURY
6- part series, 2008 , Icon Films
Presenter
Writer
HISTORY CHANNEL
EXPEDITION AFRICA
8-part series, 2009, Mark Burnett
Presenter
BBC TWO
MOMBAsa To the Mountains of the moon
1 hour, 1996, from the series More Great Railway Journeys
Presenter
Writer
BBC TWO
EDGE OF BLUE HEAVEN
6-part series, 1998
Camera
Sound
Director
Presenter
BBC TWO
LAST OF THE MEDICINE MEN
6-part series, 2000
Camera
Presenter
Writer
BBC 4
ADVENTURES FOR BOYS: the Lost Worlds of Rider Haggard
1 hour , 2007
Presenter
Writer
CHANNEL 5
Unbreakable
8-part series, 2008, Ricochet
Presenter
BBC TWO
BIRDS OF PARADISE: The Ultimate QUEST
2-part series, 2017, Tigress Productions
Co-presenter with Frank Gardner
Camera
"In an age of false television and celebrity culture, it's a relief to encounter the real thing."