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The Wildscreen Festival is the world’s leading international festival celebrating and advancing storytelling about the natural world. Held every two years, the Wildscreen Festival brings together the wildlife film, tv and photography community to transform the craft of natural world storytelling across platforms and across audiences. Through an unrivalled programme of events including workshops, masterclasses, screenings and sessions, it shares the inside track on emerging trends and is the most powerful platform for emerging talent to break into the industry.  It is also the home of the illustrious Wildscreen Panda Awards or ‘Green Oscars’ honouring the most remarkable achievement in the craft of natural world filmmaking and storytelling.

The Wildscreen Festival 2016 will take place 10-14 October 2016 in Bristol, UK. Further information is available at www.wildscreen.org and delegate tickets are on sale now from Eventbrite.

Please note that the programme is being updated daily as guest availability changes. Wildscreen reserves the right to make such updates to the programme and timings, and will endeavour to make those changes as quickly as possible.

The majority of events have a limited numbers of seats. Entrance is permitted on a first-come-first-served basis at the venue door. For particularly high-profile events, you may be asked to RSVP to secure your seat beforehand. Details will be sent to you in advance.

The programme include both industry events, which are included in the price of your day or week delegate pass, and public events that anyone is welcome to attend. 

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Jonathan Dimbleby

Veteran writer & broadcaster

Jonathan Dimbleby is the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s flagship programme of topical debate Any Questions? and its twin phone-in programme Any Answers? He has presented ITV’s flagship weekly political programme, Jonathan Dimbleby until the show ended on May 7th 2006. He is also ITV’s anchorman on every General Election night since 1997.

Starting his career as a reporter for Radio Bristol, he moved on to Radio 4 to present The World at One and The World This Weekend. He then became a reporter for Thames Television’s This Week. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, he worked prodigiously, reporting from around the world, and writing and presenting many major documentary series. He won the Richard Dimbleby Television Award in 1974. In 1988 he co-founded (and presented for five years) BBC TV’s On the Record. His more recent documentaries include Charles The Private Man, the Public Role; An African Journey; A Kosovo Journey; and the series’ The Last Governor and Russia.

He has written a number of best-selling books: Richard Dimbleby; The Palestinians; The Prince of Wales; The Last Governor and Russia.  Destiny in the Desert: The Story Behind El Alamein was published by Profile in 2012.

He is President of Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO), the Soil Association, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds; vice-President of Council for the Protection of Rural England; Council Member of the National Trust; a Trustee of the Richard Dimbleby Cancer Fund; and Chairman of Bath Festivals Trust.

He combines his media career with running his organic farm and shop in Somerset.