Martha Holmes

Martha Holmes is a BAFTA Award-winning BBC Television producer and writer known for her wildlife documentaries.

Biography Holmes studied for a PhD in marine biology at the University of York.

She started work at the BBC in 1988 hosting a live underwater broadcast from the northern Red Sea for Reefwatch, and the award-winning wildlife adventures series Sea Trek (which she hosted with American born documentary filmmaker the late Mike deGruy).

She joined the production team for Life in the Freezer and produced BBC Wildlife Specials episode on the polar bear for which she won the Best Factual Photography award at the 1998 BAFTAs. She was awarded the Royal Geographical Society's Cherry Kearton Medal and Award in 1999.

The Good Fish Guide Holmes joined a conservationist campaign to boycott 20 varieties of fish because of the impact of over-fishing on their numbers and the environment.

She wrote the introduction to "The Good Fish Guide" which accompanied the campaign.

Filmography Reefwatch (1988), presenter Sea Trek (1991), presenter Life in the Freezer (1993) production team BBC Wildlife Specials: Polar Bear (1997), producer The Blue Planet (2001), producer The Nile (2004), series producer The Man-Eating Lions of Njombe (2005), producer The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag (2005), producer The Man-Eating Wolves of Gysinge (2005), producer The Making of 'Deep Blue' (2006), segment producer Tiny World (2020-2021), executive producer