christopher riley
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Christopher Riley is a British writer, broadcaster and film maker specialising in science and history of science. He is a senior visiting fellow at the University of Lincoln, and holds a doctorate from Imperial College, University of London. Chris has directed and produced on over eighty programmes for the BBC - including their flagship science and technology strand Tomorrow's World and the cult science show Rough Science.
He was the producer of the BBC's blockbuster drama documentary Space Odyssey - Voyage to the Planets, and produced and directed on the feature documentary film In the Shadow of the Moon, winner of the 2007 Sundance World Cinema Audience Award. It went on general release across the US and Europe in the autumn of 2007 and received it's TV network premier in the summer of 2008. His latest documentary film project - the restoration of NASA's original Apollo doc Moonwalk One is out now on DVD.
Chris is the author of more than thirty articles and books on astronomy and planetary science and regularly lectures on this and other topics. His latest book - Haynes new Apollo 11 - an owner's workshop manual was published in June 2009 and made it into Amazon's top ten science books of the year list.
His video installation "Apollo Raw and Uncut" played at the London Science Museum during the summer of 2009 and is currently playing at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, Canada.
Chris was a pioneer of web journalism, reporting for the BBC's first news online service during the mid 1990s. He continues to work at the forefront of the new media revolution and is the founder and director of the innovative production company the attic room and the online film archive Footagevault.
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