christopher riley
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Christopher Riley is a British writer, broadcaster and film maker specialising in science and history of science.
For his 2011 film project - First Orbit - Chris collaborated with astronaut Paolo Nespoli to film a new view of what Yuri Gagarin would have seen on his pioneering orbit of the Earth in 1961. The resulting film, recorded on board the International Space Station, is being given away on the First Orbit web site for people to download and share with friends to celebrate the 50th anniversary of human space flight.
Chris holds a doctorate from Imperial College, University of London and is Visiting Professor of Science and Media at the University of Lincoln. He has directed and produced on over one hundred 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 conceived, produced and directed on the Sundance award winning feature documentary film In the Shadow of the Moon . He was the producer of the restorated director's cut of NASA's original Apollo doc Moonwalk One. Most recently he produced Kevin Fong's acclaimed film on the final flight of the Shuttle - for BBC TWO.
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.
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 post-digital studio the attic room and the online film archive Footagevault.
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