Caroline van den Brul is a British television documentary producer and the author of ''Crackle and Fizz: Essential Communication and Pitching Skills for Scientists''.

Biography

Van den Brul worked at the

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for twenty-five years on factual programming including '' QED'', ''

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'', and in

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she was appointed creativity leader for the corporation. She has received two

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nominations, and in 2006 she was awarded an MBE, in the Queen's birthday honours list, for services to broadcasting. She currently runs her own professional training company called Creativity by Design.

Filmography

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'', 1994 -1999, executive producer * ''Hospital Watch'', 1995, executive producer * ''Morning Surgery'', 1995, executive producer *''

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1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

), executive producer *'' Supernatural Science'' (

1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

), executive producer *'' What the Romans Did for Us'' (

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

), executive producer *''

Blood of the Vikings ''Blood of the Vikings'' was a five-part 2001 BBC Television documentary series that traced the legacy of the Vikings in the British Isles through a genetics survey.2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

), executive producer *'' What the Victorians Did for Us'' (2001), executive producer *'' What the Tudors Did for Us'' (

2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...

), executive producer *''

Our Top Ten Treasures ''Our Top Ten Treasures'' was a 2003 special episode of the BBC Television series '' Meet the Ancestors'' which profiled the ten most important treasures unearthed in Britain, as voted for by a panel of experts from the British Museum. Producti ...

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), executive producer

Bibliography

* * 1994. 6th Guardian Lecture, ''Public Perceptions of Science: How scientists and others view the media reporting of science.'' Published by

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