Alastair Fothergill is currently an Executive Producer in the BBC Natural History Unit where he started in 1983. He has been an important part in creating many award-winning and globally important wildlife programmes, including the Natural World and Wildlife on One strands, and Reefwatch in 1988, where he was one of the team that created the first live broadcasting from beneath the sea and then went on to work with Sir David Attenborough on Trials of Life in 1990. His relationship with Sir David