Mike Gunton

Mike Gunton is a British television producer and a senior executive at the BBC Natural History Unit, the world's largest production unit dedicated to wildlife film-making. In November 2009 he became the Unit's first Creative Director.

He is best known as the executive producer of Life, a nature documentary series which revealed the adaptive survival strategies of animals around the world, and as the co-author (with Martha Holmes) of the accompanying book. He is currently co-directing (with Holmes) a feature film version of Life, and is the executive producer of a major new BBC One series on African wildlife, due for broadcast in 2013.

Film and TV credits

• Life Story (2014) - executive producer
• Hidden Kingdoms (2014) - executive producer
• Africa (2013) - executive producer
• One Life (2011) - co-director
• Madagascar (2011) - executive producer
• The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Heart (2010) - executive producer
• Life (2009) - executive producer
• Yellowstone (2009) – executive producer
• Galápagos (2006) – executive producer
• Life in the Undergrowth (2005) – executive producer
• Europe: A Natural History (2005) – executive producer
• Journey of Life (2005) – executive producer
• Nile (2004) – executive producer
• British Isles: A Natural History (2004) – executive producer
• Natural World (2001-2004) – series editor
• Steve Leonard's Extreme Animals (2002) - executive producer
• Steve Leonard's Ultimate Killers (1999-2001) - executive producer
• Animal People (1997-1999) – series producer
• Violent Planet (1999) - series producer
• Tales from the Riverbank (1997) - series producer
• Natural Neighbours (1994) - series producer
• The Trials of Life (1990) – producer

Episode "Finding Food"

Episode "Home Making"

Episode "Once More into the Termite Mound: The Making of The Trials of Life"