Christopher Riley
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Christopher Riley at the BAFTA Scotland awards in 2014
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| Born |
21 September 1967 Bridlington, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Imperial College |
| Occupation | Documentarian |
| Years active | 1995–present |
| Known for |
In the Shadow of the Moon First Orbit Moon Machines Space Odyssey Moonwalk One The Girl who talked to Dolphins The Fear of 13 |
| Website | www |
Christopher Riley (born 1967) is a British writer, broadcaster and film maker specialising in the history of science. He has a Ph.D. from Imperial College, University of London where he pioneered the use of digital elevation models in the study of mountain range geomorphology and evolution. He makes frequent appearances on British television and radio, broadcasting mainly on space flight, astronomy and planetary science and is currently Visiting Professor of science and media at the University of Lincoln.
Riley went to school in Cambridge, where he grew up. He studied geology at the University of Leicester for his first degree and completed his Ph.D. at Imperial College, University of London in the mid 1990s.
Riley is a veteran of two NASA astrobiology missions (Leonid MAC) from 1998 and 1999 – reporting on their progress for BBC News. He co-presented the BBC's live coverage of the 1999, 2001 and 2015 solar eclipses, and has fronted their astronomy magazine show Final Frontier, their cosmology series Journeys in Time and Space, and their live All Night Star Party – a co-production with the Open University. In 2006 he wrote and presented BBC Radio 4's cosmology series The Cosmic Hunters. Other documentaries he's written and presented for BBC Radio 4 include "Save the Moon" (2014) and "For All Mankind" (2012).
Behind the camera he has written and directed more than 50 films for the BBC's classic science magazine show Tomorrow's World and was a producer and director on series six of Rough Science.
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