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NIALL STRAWSON

Producer Director | Podcast Producer | Specialist Factual Storyteller

Creating premium factual stories across television, audio and visual platforms from natural history and science documentaries to narrative podcasts and visualised factual formats.

​​As a producer I have built a career creating both premium factual and fast turnaround content across television, audio and emerging visual formats.

Over the last decade I’ve worked across specialist factual, natural history, science, documentary and factual entertainment for broadcasters and streamers including BBC StudiosApple TV+National Geographic and PBS NOVA.

Whether in television or audio, I’m drawn to taking complex subjects and turning them into ambitious, accessible stories finding the human moments that make ideas connect emotionally with audiences.

Alongside television, I now work in podcast production and narrative audio, producing factual storytelling. I’m particularly interested in how documentary storytelling can evolve across video, audio and new media.

My background spans development, directing, scripting, casting, field production, edit producing and long-form storytelling. I've worked on blue-chip natural history and science films to presenter-led documentaries and documentary audio.

Before moving into broadcasting I worked in academia, conservation and science communication. These formative experiences continue to inform how I tell stories.

I’m also passionate about improving representation in media and helping evolve factual storytelling and commissioning to reflect our audiences.

 

My experiences have taught me to approach challenges with curiosity, adaptability and determination. Qualities that have become core to how I work as a producer.

Energetic, collaborative and quietly tenacious, I love building teams, shaping stories and creating productions where ambitious ideas can thrive.

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Jan 2026 - May 2026

ASSISTANT PRODUCER

P*SS ON PITY (8 x '15)

BBC Studios/Radio 4

Pivot into Audio. AP on fast turnaround Radio 4 series /podcast for the modern history strand. Finding and interviewing guests, archive research, edit producing and development of new long form ideas. 

April 2024 - Sept 2025

PRODUCER

EVOLUTION

BBC Studios/NOVA

Producer on high end presenter led (Chris Packham) show about the evolution of animal life for the BBC's Science Unit. Tasks include directing, scripting, casting, logistics, managing partnerships, secondary development and international shoots.

March 2023 - Dec 2023

ASSISTANT PRODUCER

ATTENBOROUGH AND THE GIANT SEA MONSTER

BBC Studios

AP producing a fast turnaround BBC One project whereby Sir David Attenborough and a team of palaeontologists investigate a globally important discovery. Set up and produced a high-value international VFX shoot. Shoot set up, logistics and directing for various UK locations.

April 2022 - Jan 2023

ASSISTANT PRODUCER

LION

BBC Studios

AP on a blue-chip multi-part series chronicling the lives of a single pride of lions over a 4 year filming period. Responsible for researching, setting up shoots and field directing across the series.

Aug 2021 -April 2022

ASSISTANT PRODUCER

NHU DEVELOPMENT

BBC Studios

 

AP creating a diverse slate of ideas in development for both for BBC output and international SVOD providers.

July 2020 - Aug 2021

ASSISTANT PRODUCER

BIG BEASTS

Plimsoll Productions

AP for a global blue chip natural history series. Responsible for research, coordinating and directing shoots across 2 episodes in India and Tanzania.

 

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PRODUCER DIRECTOR

Premium factual television, documentary and specialist factual

PODCAST PRODUCER

Narrative audio and podcast storytelling

DEVELOPMENT & STORY

Ideas, formats and multi-platform factual development

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PUBLIC SPEAKING

I am a regular speaker and industry contributor, drawing on my experience as a disabled person working in the media. I regularly train and advise organisations and production teams on accessibility, inclusive production and practical ways to make ambitious programming more accessible

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EDUCATION

My Studies

Sept 2007- May 2008

MSC BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

University of Leeds 

Pass with Merit

Sept 1999 - June 2001

BSC NEUROSCIENCE

University of Edinburgh

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