Mike Gunton is an Executive Producer and senior executive at BBC Natural History, the world’s largest production unit dedicated to wildlife filmmaking. As an ambassador for BBC Studios internationally, he is responsible for bringing new and pioneering stories about the natural world to global audiences.

The newest release, The Green Planet, is a five – part documentary taking viewers on a journey into the hidden world of plants. The result is a revelation – plants are as aggressive, competitive, and dramatic as animals, locked in desperate battles for food, for light, to reproduce and to scatter their young. Their solutions to the problems of living are often wondrous, beautiful, and other – worldly. Narrated by Sir David Attenborough, The Green Planet received widespread critical praise for cinematography, technological advances, narration, presentation, storytelling, and environmental message.

Gunton has worked on many critically acclaimed series including Galapagos, Yellowstone, Madagascar, Life, Africa, Shark, Attenboro ugh and the Giant Dinosaur and Life Story, and speaks internationally as an ambassador for Natural History filmmaking, the BBC, and the natural world. Gunton is a fellow of the Royal Television Society and Linnean Society. Mike Gunton has a PhD in Zoology from Cambridge University