Mike Andrews´ BBC Television programmes - as Executive Producer/Script Writer/Director

Mike worked for the BBC for twenty-four years, becoming a Television executive producer and writer/director and gaining a distinguished track-record in science, natural history, drama and general documentaries.  These were shown world-wide, winning more than 20 major international awards including scientific awards: Prix Italia, Peabody Award, New York Film Festival Gold Medals etc. and 7 BAFTA nominations.  He was also awarded the Cherry Kearton Medal of the Royal Geographical Society and a personal award from the American Geological Institute for: Outstanding contribution to the public understanding of Geology.

2000-2005
Working in Ethiopia as a volunteer with Gem TV, a talented group of former Ethiopian Street Children, he supervised award-winning video documentaries and dramas on community and health development issues for NGOs and local television.

1998
Developed TV documentary outlines for the International Broadcasting Trust and The Sasakawa Peace Foundation in remote areas of The Philippines, Thailand, India and Sri Lanka.

1988-91
The Birth of Europe a seven-part TV series for BBC-2.  This ambitious story of the development of European civilisation was told from a completely new viewpoint - that of human historical ecology.  The series received outstanding reviews, being favourably compared with Sir Kenneth Clarkes iconic series Civilisation.  Mike Andrews was also instrumental in developing a Teachers Guide which related the series to the National Curriculum.

1985-6
Vanishing Earth, two programmes about the world crisis in agriculture.  They involved complex filming in Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, China, Nepal and the USA.  One programme won the Prix Italia for Conservation in 1987.  At the time the world's most important TV environment award.

1982-83
Making of a Continent, a pioneering three-programme mini-series about geology, wildlife and the impact of human civilisation in the USA.  It set new standards for the interpretation of geology with spectacular film and graphics.   It won a Peabody Award, the top TV award in the USA.

1979-81
The Flight of the Condor. This famous wildlife mini-series was made in extremely demanding conditions as different as high altitude desert to tropical rain forest.  Transport varied from military helicopters and float-planes to native canoes and trekking for days on foot with pack-horses.  Widely regarded as a television `Classic´ with the music reaching the Top-Twenty ditto, it ranked second in the BBCs top ten best selling TV series and has been bought by over 75 countries.

1976-79
Editor of The World About Us natural history series, based in Bristol.  Under Mike´s leadership The World About Us won the Radio Industries Club Award for the Best Science Series on TV and three successive BAFTA nominations for Best Factual Series.

1969-76
Producer, Horizon, Science Features Department BBC TV.   Mike produced over 20 science documentaries for the series at a time when it was consistently winning BAFTA awards as the Best Factual TV Series on British television.



Mike Andrews major publications as Michael Alford Andrews include the following best sellers:

The Life that Lives on Man, Faber 1976 (plus two paperback and four foreign editions)

The Flight of the Condor, Collins/BBC 1982 (plus paper-back and Little Brown, USA)

The Birth of Europe, BBC 1991 (plus five foreign editions)