BONUS EPISODE: Orla Doherty (Blue Planet II Producer)
Changes with Annie Macmanus
Annie Macmanus
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Surprise! In this special episode on change, our planet and sustainability, award winning producer for Blue Planet II, Orla Doherty, shares her incredibly unique perspective on our oceans. Orla made huge changes in her life to get to where she is today - her love for the ocean came later in life at the age of 30 when she learnt to scuba dive, but when she fell, she fell hard!! She went on to quit her job in London as a TV producer and spent 10 years on a boat exploring coral reefs. After returning to dry land, turning 40 and moving back in with her parents, she went on to marry her TV work with her ocean exploration experience and spent over 500 hours at depths of 1,000 metres in three oceans filming ‘The Deep’ and the series finale of Blue Planet II. The series was a huge success being the most watched TV series on the BBC in 2017 sparking conversations around the world about the effect of plastic on our oceans - known as the Blue Planet effect. Orla shares her phenomenal journey and her thoughts on the changes we need to make, the biggest challenges in effecting change and why she would happily live under the sea.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a very special bonus episode of Changes with me Annie McManus. |
| 0:11.0 | That's right we have a very special episode for you. It's a really exciting one this week. |
| 0:15.5 | My guest is Orla Doherty. Orla is an award-winning TV producer who spent over 500 hours at depths of 1,000 meters in three different oceans as the |
| 0:27.6 | producer of The Deep and the series finale of Blue Planet 2. O'La is a very quiet record breaker, rule breaker, |
| 0:37.0 | explorer, and a person who in her work |
| 0:41.0 | and the impact of it has managed to change how an entire country looks at the way they live. |
| 0:48.0 | Think of every kind of moon landing, every space explorer, and then think of Orla in a submersible at the bottom of the ocean |
| 0:56.0 | sitting in the black with a cameraman filming everything that she sees and putting that |
| 1:01.0 | together into the most beautiful television. Blue Planet 2 is the |
| 1:06.3 | fourth most watch TV show ever in the UK. It was the most watch TV program in 2017. |
| 1:14.2 | It's won multiple television awards and won hearts and minds |
| 1:17.9 | and raised awareness, as I said, of plastic pollution |
| 1:20.9 | to a point where people call it the Blue Planet Effect. |
| 1:24.4 | There was recently a newly narrated program called Planet Earth A Celebration on BBC 1 which brings |
| 1:29.8 | together the most astounding stories from Planet Earth to and Blue Planet 2. |
| 1:34.0 | Orla is now an executive producer on Ocean Explorers, |
| 1:38.0 | a series combining landmark natural history |
| 1:41.0 | with ocean exploration for national geographic and is producing an episode of the |
| 1:44.6 | forthcoming Frozen Planet 2 series about the Antarctic. |
| 1:48.6 | It's safe to say that she has a unique perspective on our planet, its oceans and sustainability. |
| 1:55.0 | She's going to tell us all about the change that she went through as a person when she was 30 years old that led her to devote her adult life to oceans and the life within them. |
| 2:04.8 | Big thanks to Mercedes, who supported the making of this special episode. |
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