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Martin Hayward Smith – Curriculum Vitae

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2022
Film: Beaver Release at Sculthorpe Moor
Film: Roman Dig Aylsham Norfolk
Film: Lucy Boydell – Red Stag Gunton Park

2021
Film: A Curlew Calls
Film: Aylsham Roman Dig Project, Trowels and Tribulations
Film: Pink Feet Geese At Holkham for  ITV

February 2020
Film: Pensthorpe Gardens

January 2020
Film: Ray Mears in Finland

December 2019
Film: Hawk and Owl Trust
Film: Pensthorpe Gardens

November 2019
Film: National Trust
Film: Hawk and Owl Trust
Film: Pensthorpe Gardens

October 2019
Film: Hawk and Owl Trust
Film: Pensthorpe Gardens

September 2019
Film: National Trust
Film: Hawk and Owl Trust
Film: Pensthorpe Garden

August 2019
Filming: Pensthorpe Gardens
Filming: Hawk and Owl Trust

March 2019
Launch: The Bohemian Blue Hut Airbnb
Launch: North Norfolk Safaris
Filming: National Trust

February 2019
Filming: National Trust

January 2019
Filming: Barn Owl & Kestrel, NHK TV
Filming: National Trust

December 2018
Filming: National Trust

November 2018
Filming: River Walks, BBC 2
Filming: Promotional Film For Sculthorpe Moor Reserve
Filming: National Trust

October 2018
Filming: Barn Owl & Kestrels, NHK TV
Filming: Promotional Film For Sculthorpe Moor Reserve
Filming: National Trust

September 2018
Filming: Promotional Film For Sculthorpe Moor Reserve
Filming: National Trust

August 2018
Filming: Barn Owl & Kestrel, NHK TV
Filming: Promotional Film For Sculthorpe Moor Reserve
Filming: National Trust

July 2018
Filming: Barn Owl & Kestrels, NHK TV
Filming: Promotional Film For Sculthorpe Moor Reserve
Filming: National Trust

June 2018
Filming: Barn Owl & Kestrels, NHK TV
Filming: National Trust
Filming: Promotional Film For Sculthorpe Moor Reserve

May 2018
Filming: Barn Owl & Kestrel, NHK TV
Filming: Promotional Film For Sculthorpe Moor Reserve

April 2018
Filming: Barn Owl & Kestrel, NHK TV
Filming: Promotional Film For Sculthorpe Moor Reserve

March 2018
Filming: Barn Owl & Kestrel, NHK TV
Filming: Promotional Film For Sculthorpe Moor Nature Reserve

February 2018
Filming: Promotional Film For Sculthorpe Moor Nature Reserve
Filming: Barn Owl & Kestrels, NHK TV

January 2018
Filming: Barn Owls & Kestrels, NHK TV

August 2017
Taking Time Out To Build A Shepherds Hut, The Bohemian Blue Hut.
Filming: Sir Roger Bannister

June 2017
Filming: Northern Australia with Ray Mears, ITV

May 2017
Filming: British Wildlife

April 2017
Filming: Western Australia with Ray Mears, ITV

March 2017
Writing new book

February 2017
Start working on New Book

January 2017
Filming: The Enchanted Forest, Japanese TV

December 2016
Filming: The Enchanted Forest, Japanese TV

November 2016
Filming: The Enchanted Forest, Japanese TV
The Farm, C4

October 2016
Filming: The Enchanted Forest, Japanese TV
The Secret Life of Puppies, CHANNEL 5

September 2016
Filming: The Enchanted Forest, Japanese TV
The Secret Life of Puppies, CHANNEL 5

August 2016
Filming: The Enchanted Forest, Japanese TV
The Secret Life of Puppies, CHANNEL 5
Filming: Storks, the One Show BBC1

July 2016
The Secret Life Of Puppies, CHANNEL 5
Filming: The Enchanted Forest, Japanese TV

June 2016
Filming: The Enchanted Forest, Japanese TV

May 2016
Britain’s Lost WaterLands, BBC4
Filming: The Enchanted Forest, Japanese TV

April 2016
Filming: The Enchanted Forest, Japanese TV

February 2016
Cuba  Havana

January 2016
Filming, River Spey

December 2015
Filming, Wild Australia with Ray Mears, ITV

November 2015
Filming, Wild Australia with Ray Mears, ITV

October 2015
Filming, Wild Australia with Ray Mears, ITV

September 2015
Filming, The River Spey

August 2015
Filming, The River Spey

July 2015
Filming, Wild France with Ray Mears ITV
Filming, The River Spey

June 2015
Filming, Wild France with Ray Mears ITV
Filming, The River Spey

May 2015
Filming, The River Spey

April 2015
Filming, The River Spey

March 2015
Filming The River Spey

January & February 2015
Humongous amount of PR for book for mad march hares

October 2014
Launch of book & Press Release – My Year With Hares

September 2014
Publishing my own book – My Year With hares

August 2014
Filming, Wild Hebrides

July 2014
Filming, Wild Hebrides

June 2014
Filming, Wild Hebrides

May 2014
Filming, Wild Hebrides

April 2014
Writing book, My Year With the Hares

March 2014
Writing, My Year With the Hares

February 2014
Writing, My Year With the Hares

January 2014
Filming, A year in the Life in the Apple Orchard

December 2013
Filming, A year in the Life of an Apple Orchard

November 2013
Filming, A year in the Life of an Apple Orchard.

October 2013
Film Apple Orchard for Japanese TV

September 2013
Film Apple Orchard for Japanese TV

August 2013
Film Pike for Japanese TV

July 2013
BBC 1 – Film Stoats for The One Show
Film Apple Orchard for Japanese TV

June 2013
Film Drama on Red 6K Camera
Film Apple Orchard for Japanese TV

May 2013
Dragonfly Production – film stoat kits for The Burrowers BBC2
Film Apple Orchard for Japanese TV

April 2013
Dragonfly Productions – film stoat kits for The Burrowers BBC2
Film Apple Orchard for Japanese TV

March 2013
Filming Apple Orchard for Japanese TV

February 2013
Build Stoats birthing chamber

January 2013
BBC NHU – The Great British Year
Filming Apple Orchard for Japanese TV

December 2012
Filming a Year in the Life of an Apple Orchard for Japanese TV

November 2012
Zanzibar

October 2012
BBC NHU – The Great British Year
Filming Rabbits for Japanese TV

October 2012
BBC NHU – The Great British Year
Filming Rabbits for Japanese TV

September 2012
Discovery, Raw TV, Ghana – Jungle Gold
Filming Stoats for Japanese TV

August 2012
ITV, Ray Mears – Yorksire, Salisbury Plain, Kent – Wild Britain 3

July 2012
ITV, Ray Mears – Ilse of Mull & Argyll – Wild Britain 3
Filming Stoats & Rabbits for Japanese TV

June 2012
ITV, Ray Mears – River Wye – Wild Britain 3
BBC NHU – The Great British Year
Filming Stoats for Japanese TV

May 2012
ITV, Ray Mears – Isle of Wight – Wild Britain 3

Apri 2012
ITV, Ray Mears – Scilly Isles – Wild Britain 3

March 2012
BBC NHU – Seasons
C4, Jimmy Doherty (Jimmy’s Wood)

February 2012
C4, Jimmy Doherty (Jimmy’s Wood)
NHK, Japan – filming stoats

January 2012
Writing for book

December 2011
C4, Jimmy Doherty (Jimmy’s Wood)

November 2011
NHK, Japan – film in rabbit warren

September 2011
C4, Jimmy Doherty (Jimmy’s Wood)

August 2011
Southern Ireland – filming Camphire Horse Trials

July-August 2011
ITV, Ray Mears – Wild Britain 2
C4, Jimmy Doherty (Jimmy’s Wood)

June 2011
ITV, Ray Mears – Wild Britain 2

April-May 2011
C4, Jimmy Doherty (Jimmy’s Wood)

April 2011
ITV, Ray Mears – Wild Britain 2

February-March 2011
NHK, Japan – filming hares

February 2011
BBC NHU

November 2010 – January 2011
Work on holiday cottage

October 2010
NHK, Japan – filming pikes in tank

September 2010
ITV, Ray Mears – Wild Britain

July/August 2010
NHK, Japan – filming fresh water fish in tank

June 2010
ITV, Ray Mears – Wild Britain
NHK Japan – underwater filming
BBC2 – Highgrove with HRH Prince Charles and Alan Titchmarch

May 2010
BBC2 – Highgrove with HRH Prince Charles and Alan Titchmarch
ITV, Ray Mears – Wild Britain

April 2010
BBC2 – Highgrove with HRH Prince Charles and Alan Titchmarch

February and March 2010
Children’s TV

January 2010
BBC2 – Snow Watch

November 2009
BBC – Autumnwatch

September 2009
ITV, Tiger Productions, Alan Titchmarch – Seasons

August 2009
ITV, Tiger Aspect Productions, Alan Titchmarch – Seasons

July 2009
ITV, Tiger Aspect Productions, Alan Titchmarch – Seasons

June 2009
ITV, Tiger Aspect Productions, Alan Titchmarch – Seasons
BBC2, Valentine Warner – What to Eat Now

May 2009
BBC2, Valentine Warner – What to Eat Now
BBC – Springwatch
ITV, Tiger Aspect Productions, Alan Titchmarch – Seasons

April 2009
ITV, Tiger Aspect Productions, Alan Titchmarch – Seasons
NHK Japan – Hares boxing

March 2009
ITV, Tiger Aspect Productions, Alan Titchmarch – Seasons

February 2009
ITV, Tiger Aspect Productions, Alan Titchmarch – Seasons

January 2009
ITV, Tiger Aspect Productions, Alan Titchmarch – Seasons

December 2008
ITV, Tiger Aspect Productions, Alan Titchmarch – Seasons

November 2008
ITV, Tiger Aspect Productions, Alan Titchmarch – Seasons
RSPB – Cranes

October 2008
ITV, Tiger Aspect Productions, Alan Titchmarch – Seasons

June 2008
BBC – Springwatch
BBC – The One Show

May 2008
Discovery Animal Planet – Australia, Great Barrier Reef

April 2008
BBC – Trawler Men
BBC – Springwatch
BBC, Valentino – cooking programme
Discovery Animal Planet – Australia, Great Barrier Reef

March 2008
Discovery Animal Planet – Yellowstone National Park, Wolves, Bison and Elk
Discovery Animal Planet – Canada, Great Grey Owls
Discovery Animal Planet – South of the Arctic Circle, Polar bears

February 2008
Discovery Animal Planet – Norfolk Broads
Discovery Animal Planet – filming in USA Florida Keys, Alligators and Crocodiles and underwater filming of Manatees

January 2008
BBC – Trawler Men
Discovery Animal Planet – Essex Mud Flats

December 2007
Discovery Animal Planet – Spain, The Animals Guide to Survival

November 2007
Discovery Animal Planet – Kenya, Masi Mara, The Animals Guide to Survival

January – September 2007
Sky TV – Welsh, Irish, English and Scottish Sheepdog Trials
BBC, Alan Titchmarsh – The Nature of Britain
Anglia TV – Bygones
Eye TV – Country Days
BBC – Jimmy’s Farm
Bill Oddie – Corncrakes
Anglia TV – River Journeys
RSPB – Stone Curlews

2006
BBC – Jimmy’s Farm
BBC, Alan Titchmarsh – The Nature of Britain
BBC, Chris Packham – Nature’s Calendar
Channel 5 and Animal Planet – Madagascar – Lemur Island
BBC, David Attenborough – The Living Planet
BBC – The Wild Show
National Geographic – Caiman
RSPB – Barn Owls
Anglia TV – Country Days
RSPB – Cuckoos
RSPB – Kingfishers
Channel 5, Madagascar – Lemur Island
Eye TV – Country Days
RSPB – Great Crested Grebes
Anglia TV – River Journeys

2005
RSPB – Underwater filming of Teal
BBC, Alan Titchmarsh – The Nature of Britain
Oman photographic expedition
BBC – Jimmy’s Farm
RSPB – Rudd in tank
BBC, Bill Oddie – Autumnwatch
RSPB – Waders in the Wash
RSPB – Film
RSPB – Cuckoo kicking out eggs
BBC, Natural World – Wild Harvest
RSPB – Great Crested Grebes hatching
RSPB – Swallow Tail Butterfly hatching
Anglia TV – Kites
BBC, Bill Oddie – Springwatch
BBC – A Wild Cairngorms Winter

2004
Anglia TV – Wartime Winter
Anglia TV – Red Deer
RSPB – Waders on the Wash
ITV – Seven Wonders of the East – Sync filming plus aerials
ITV – Secret of Eel Island, Children’s TV Drama
Anglia TV
RSPB – Kestrel nest and young English Partridge
Osprey Nesting
BBC – Wild Spring Day – Colonsay, Hebrides
Anglia TV – Victorian Winter
BBC, Alan Titchmarsh
RSPB – Pink Feet Geese
Book – Elements of the North Norfolk Coast (with David North)

2003
Anglia TV – Victorian Winter
BBC, Alan Titchmarsh
Osprey Nesting
BBC – Country File
RSPB – Colonsay, Hebrides
RSPB – Sea Eagles, Isle of Skye
RSPB – Bitterns and Eider Duck in tank
BBC, Wild Winters Day – North Norfolk

2002
BBC, Wild Winters Day – North Norfolk
BBC – Alan Titchmarsh
Hawk and Owl Trust film
Anglia TV – Victorian Summer
Filming Ospreys in Finland
Sync Filming Chris Beardshaw, The Flying Gardener
RSPB – Crows eating Lapwing Eggs
RSPB – Farmland Birds
Bill Oddie Goes Wild – Norfolk Broads
Hawk and Owl Trust film
Bill Oddie Goes Wild – Somerset Levels
RSPB – Hedgehog Predation on Waders’ Eggs
Bill Oddie Goes Wild – Dartmoor
Bill Oddie Goes Wild – Wicken Fen
English Nature – Chippenham Fen
Bill Oddie Goes Wild – Norfolk Coast

2001
RSPB – Disappearing Farmlands, Birds and Mammals

2000
Countryside Alliance – Fly fishing and British fish
Anglia TV, Survival – Peru filming Military Macaws, Peccary and Tapirs
Anglia TV, Survival – Madagascar filming Lemurs, Crocodiles and locals
Script writing for BBC and Anglia TV, Survival

1999
Anglia TV, Survival – Madagascar
BBC – Living in Britain

1998
BBC
Anglia TV, Survival – Norfolk Wood

1997
BBC
Anglia TV, Survival – Norfolk Wood
River Wensum
BBC – Life of Birds

1996
BBC – Life of Birds
River Wensum
Anglia TV, Survival – Countrywide Series
Lighthouse Productions for Channel 4 – Wings

1995
Lighthouse Productions for Channel 4
Anglia TV, Survival – River Wensum

1994
A Day in the Life of Pensthorpe Waterfowl Trust

1993
Photographic expedition to Kenya, Uganda, Zaire and Tanzania

1992 – 1993
Offshore Marine North Sea Oil Rig Standby Firefighting Vessel

1986 – 1992
Proprietor of commercial Photographic Studio

May 1986 – June 1986
BBC – Assistant to Chris Packham – A Day in the Life of a Kestrel

April 1985 – September 1986
Anglia TV, Survival – Assistant Wildlife Cameraman to Chris Knights – The Water Vole

May 1985 – May 1986
One year commission – photographing Wildlife at Pensthorpe Waterfowl Trust

April 1985 – May 1985
Studying and photographing wildlife on Isle of May

1984 – 1985
Anglia TV, Survival – Assistant to Chris Knights – Great Crested Grebes

September 1983 – July 1984
Southport College of Art

January 1983 – September 1983
Freelance photographer

February 1983 – March 1983
Photographic expedition to Sri Lankan Game Reserves

July 1982 – January 1983
Self employed – restoration and decoration of period cottages

April 1982 – May 1982
Kenya – working with George Adamson of Born Free
Photographic expedition to Nepal – trekking, white water rafting and game reserves

December 1978 – March 1982
Offshore Marine Oil Rig Supply Vessel – AB Rigger, North Sea, Spain, Newfoundland, West Coast of Africa

November 1974 – August 1978
Royal Navy – Sonar Operator and Ships Diver