Judith Bunting

Judith Bunting is an television producer, specialising in science, technology and children's education. She was chosen by the Royal Society of Chemistry to be one of their '175 Faces of Chemistry'[1]

Education

Bunting attended Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where she obtained a Masters Degree in Natural Sciences (Chemistry) in 1979.[2]

Career

Television

Bunting has been a producer of groundbreaking educational and science-based documentary television since the 1990s. Her early producing credits include the BBC series "Tomorrow's World", "Teen Species",[3][4] "Horizon"[5] and Robert Winston's "The Secret Life of Twins"[6] and "Superhuman".[7]

She produced three series of the series "Body Hits"[8] and the RTS Award-winning "Breast Cancer - the Operation" for BBC3.[9]

In 2007, she was Series Producer for the BBC Wales series, "The Museum". She followed this by Executive Producing "Rocket Science" for BBC2[10] and "Headshrinkers of the Amazon" for the National Geographic Channel. Her 2009 documentary for the National Geographic Channel, "The Neanderthal Code" was nominated for a Grierson Award for Best Science Documentary.[11]

Since 2013, Bunting has been Series Producer for production company Remark! on over 30 episodes of "Magic Hands", a programme for CBeebies featuring poetry and Shakespeare for children translated entirely into British Sign Language, in which the presenters are all profoundly deaf.[12]

Politics

Since 2012, Bunting has increasingly focused on politics. In the 2015 UK General Election, she stood as the Liberal Democrats' Parliamentary Candidate for Newbury[13] and was the second most popular candidate behind Richard Benyon.[14] She has consistently pursued a broader engagement with science in politics and education.[15]

She is the Parliamentary Candidate for the Liberal Democrats Party for Newbury for the 2017 UK General Election United Kingdom general election, 2017.[16]

In September 2017, Bunting resigned as Liberal Democrats's parliamentary candidate for Newbury.[17]

References

  1. ↑ "Judith Bunting | 175 Faces of Chemistry". Rsc.org.
  2. ↑ "Alumni Profiles - Careers Fair 2017". Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
  3. ↑ "Teen Species". The Radio Times. 27 June 2002. p. 98.
  4. ↑ Jardine, Cassandra (27 June 2002). "So that's why they sleep all day". Daily Telegraph.
  5. ↑ "Television Review". The Independent. 20 February 1998.
  6. ↑ "The Secret Life of Twins". The Radio Times. 8 July 1999. p. 82.
  7. ↑ "Superhuman". The Radio Times. 26 October 2000. p. 94.
  8. ↑ "Body Hits". Radio Times.
  9. ↑ Timms, Dominic; Deans, Jason (24 August 2004). "Emin links with Winterbottom for BBC3 movie". the Guardian.
  10. ↑ "Rocket Science". The Radio Times. 5 March 2009. p. 116.
  11. ↑ "Grierson documentary awards 2009: full shortlist". the Guardian. 6 August 2009.
  12. ↑ "Magic Hands - Media Centre". Bbc.co.uk.
  13. ↑ "Election interview: Judith Bunting". Newbury Weekly News.
  14. ↑ "Newbury parliamentary constituency - Election 2017". BBC News. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
  15. ↑ "Women in Science – a Formula for Success". SI Southern England.
  16. ↑ "Lib Dems see 'opportunity to change direction of the country'". Newbury Weekly News.
  17. ↑ "Judith Bunting resigns as Lib Dem's parliamentary candidate for Newbury". Newbury Weekly News.
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