Paul Olding is a BAFTA nominated (Best Director), multi-award-winning television writer/director. As well as two non-fiction books (The Urban Vineyard and Return to the Berber Village), he has written and directed over sixty films for TV, travelling the globe to document the natural world, ancient civilisations and the universe beyond. More recently, he has made a set of ambitious historical dramas, beginning with the lives of Wallis Simpson (The Queen that Never Was) and Prince Albert (The Power behind Victoria), moving onto the gruesome deaths of a host of English monarchs (Royal Autopsy), and the cruel and barbaric witch trials that took place in Essex in the 16th and 17th centuries (Witches of Essex). Before television, Paul was an academic, gaining a doctorate in the calls of Australian Microhylid treefrogs from Jesus College, University of Oxford. When he’s not writing or making films, Paul can be found on his vineyard in East Sussex (Wildwood Vineyard), or dressed up on a Hollywood movie set as a Supporting Artist. He lives in South East London with his wife, and their two sons.
