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Dr Christopher Riley is a broadcaster and film maker specialising in history and science documentaries. He has worked on many of the BBC's iconic science programmes from Tomorrow's World and Rough Science to Science in Action and the Sky at Night. In 2004 he won the Sir Arthur Clarke award for his work producing the BBC ONE blockbuster series Space Odyssey: voyage to the planets.
His latest film In the Shadow of the Moon, the story of the Apollo astronauts, premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the World Cinema Audience Award. It premiered in cinemas across the US and UK in the Autumn of 2007.