Gillian Burke

Gillian Burke (born 1974/1975[1]) is a natural history television programme producer and voiceover artist,[2] and has been a co-presenter of the BBC nature series Springwatch and its spin-offs since 2017.

Gillian Burke
Born1974/1975 (age 44–45)
Kenya
NationalityKenyan/British
Alma materUniversity of Bristol
Occupationproducer, TV presenter
Years active2000–present
Children2

Career

Burke studied biology at Bristol University, and worked as a researcher for the BBC's Natural History Unit.[3] She worked as a producer and director on several series for Animal Planet and the Discovery Channel, and as a voiceover artist,[4] before becoming a regular presenter on Springwatch in 2017.[3]

In 2019 she hosted Nature's Strangest Mysteries: Solved (Animal Planet), and in 2020 narrated Thailand's Wild Side (National Geographic Channel).[5][6][7]

Personal life

Burke was born in Kenya, and moved to Vienna age ten. Her ancestry is Afro-Trinidadian, Seminole, Mauritian and Somalian; her mother was a journalist and worked with the United Nations.[8] As a teenager, she took wildlife photographs with a Pentax K1000. She now lives in Cornwall with her two children.[3] She is an ambassador of the rainforest protection charity Cool Earth.[9]

References
  1. "Meet Winterwatch's new presenter Gillian Burke". Radio Times. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  2. "CREDITS". Gillian Burke.
  3. "Meet Winterwatch's new presenter Gillian Burke".
  4. "Who is Winterwatch presenter Gillian Burke?". Caroline Westbrook. Metro. 30 January 2019.
  5. "Nature's Strangest Mysteries: Solved, TV".
  6. "Thailand's Wild Side" – via www.imdb.com.
  7. "An Evening with Gillian Burke - Talks - What's On - The Poly at Falmouth". thepoly.org.
  8. Gray, Interview by Susan (29 September 2017). "Gillian Burke: 'I am a product of generations of people moving between continents'" – via www.theguardian.com.
  9. "Ambassadors". Cool Earth. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
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