This event is a spe­cial lim­ited archival release of con­tent never before shared online. The talk will pre­mière on Friday, February, 25 2022 and can be viewed on this page, at dptv​.org, or on the Penny Stamps Series Face­book page. This talk will be avail­able for a lim­ited period, from Friday, February 25‑Friday, March 18, 2022 (three weeks).
Tom Hugh-Jones is the pro­ducer of the David Atten­bor­ough-nar­rated Planet Earth BBC series and has spent twenty-two years pro­duc­ing nat­ural his­tory and sci­ence doc­u­men­taries for broad­cast­ers such as BBC, National Geo­graphic, and Dis­cov­ery. When he was just four years old, Tom’s anthro­pol­o­gist par­ents took him to live with a tribal com­mu­nity in the Colom­bian Ama­zon, sow­ing the seeds of his pas­sion for adven­ture in the wild. Since then, Hugh-Jones has worked on many pro­lific titles such as Planet Earth, Human Planet, and Life Story, tak­ing audi­ences around the world into the beat­ing heart of breath-tak­ing moments, close encoun­ters, spec­tac­u­lar fail­ures, and places no human should ever go.
Hugh-Jones will also bring spe­cial guests from Blue Planet Pro­duc­tion to dis­cuss the team­work and process of mak­ing Planet Earth and its com­pan­ion BBC show, Blue Planet. Guests include producer/​director Rachael But­ler and Pam and Tim Fogg of Rope Access Spe­cial­ists, a team of experts in rope-access rig­ging and safety when shoot­ing in dif­fi­cult-to-reach locales such as caves, vol­ca­noes, and cliffs.