In 2002, the Impossible Pictures production company asked Nigel to present the Walking with Dinosaurs Special episodes 'The Giant Claw' and 'Land of Giants', which premiered on BBC One to nearly seven million viewers in late 2002. In 2000, Nigel became the host of the hit annual Discovery Channel event Shark Week, and held this role for three years. Shark Week and prehistory programmes (2000–2009) This style of presenting has won him many viewers and to date he has presented more than 50 wildlife programs and series for TV. Other scenes included a goliath birdeater spider, arguably the largest spider in the world, walking over his face, and Marven grappling a fifteen-foot African rock python deep in its underground lair. In his first television series for ITV, Giants, he swam with a great white shark without the protection of a cage.

In 1998, he moved to ITV where he was asked to present wildlife documentaries as well as produce them. He enjoyed a 12-year professional collaboration with the natural historian David Attenborough, whom he holds in high esteem. He then went on to begin producing nature documentary series, one of the first being Realms of the Russian Bear in 1992. Nigel studied botany and zoology at the University of Bristol until the age of 22 when he left to begin his career at the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol.īecoming producer and TV presenter (1982-1999) įrom 1982 to the mid-1990s, Nigel first worked as a wildlife documentary researcher for such programmes as The First Eden and My Family and Other Animals. When he was 15, he also owned young spectacled caiman. He kept stick insects, boa constrictors and even an eel in a bath. His first pet was a hamster called Hummy. Marven was born in Barnet but grew up in St.

He is also known for his unorthodox, spontaneous, and daring style of presenting wildlife documentaries as well as for including factual knowledge in the proceedings. He is best known as presenter of the BBC miniseries Chased by Dinosaurs, its sequel, Sea Monsters, as well as the ITV miniseries Prehistoric Park. Nigel Alan Marven (born 27 November 1960) is a British wildlife TV presenter, naturalist, conservationist, author, and television producer.

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