Talk:Liz Bonnin

TV appearance update
She is currently co presenting the astronomy programme Star Gazing on BBC 2. Link to the programme's website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wnvpf.  RND   T    C   20:19, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Nationality
On her web site it says "Liz was born in France to a French father and Trinidadian mother of Indian Portuguese descent, and moved to Ireland when she was nine years old" so why the query about being French!! On her web site it"Her mother is of Indian Portuguese descent." ." so why the query on Indian grandparents! one has to be --One of her grandfathers is from India[citation needed].  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.178.152.51 (talk) 09:23, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

Is there any evidence that she's French? Surely she's more likely to be Irish. I imagine she wants to be able to vote etc. 90.221.163.242 (talk) 23:03, 16 January 2012 (UTC)


 * She seems to have lived in England for the last decade, so she might as well adopt British citizenship if she wants to change, but within the EU it hardly matters other than for ideological or political reasons. It would be interesting to know where she lived in Ireland, as she seems to have a mild Northern Irish accent to me, rather like Gloria Hunniford. This is unlike the accent of middle class people from the Republic, both when speaking naturally and when trying to do RP. --Ef80 (talk) 20:45, 5 June 2012 (UTC)


 * She doesn't have the slightest hint of a northern accent. Sounds typically middle class Dublin or near. 134.226.254.178 (talk) 20:35, 9 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Sounds Ulster to me. -86.167.240.115 (talk) 14:44, 18 April 2021 (UTC)


 * This interview states that she does not hold an Irish passport, that she identifies as French and that she is 40 this year, so the current information on nationality and birth date is probably wrong. 86.132.81.236 (talk) 19:47, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

Age (disputed)
Two sources give a different year of birth How should this discrepancy be resolved? Bogger (talk) 13:16, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
 * https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/2278072/liz-bonnin-wild-alaska-live-galapagos-countrywise-presenter/
 * https://www.independent.ie/style/celebrity/celebrity-features/former-rte-star-liz-bonnin-on-choosing-science-over-celebrity-fhm-offered-me-a-spread-but-i-said-no-34704999.html
 * In general we give both sources. In this case, though, I could imagine an argument that the Irish Independent has a noticeably better reputation than The Sun (United Kingdom), so we may want to go with that one, possibly giving the Sun figure in a footnote? --GRuban (talk) 21:11, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

Excessive detail
The "Career" section seems excessively detailed to me: I fail to see the necessity of including broadcast dates for programmes. Since the salient details are repeated in the table, I'm intending to severely prune things unless anyone raises a compelling objection. ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 19:53, 18 July 2018 (UTC)
 * No objection, so I've removed it and pasted it below, in case anyone wants to re-ad any of it in a more selective manner. ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 12:14, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

She was a guest presenter from the Pitsea landfill site in Essex, England for June 2011's Springwatch on the BBC.

Her programme on animal intelligence, Super Smart Animals, was filmed in mid-2011 in Mexico, Brazil, Thailand, Australia and Germany, and broadcast in February 2012.

On 11 April 2013 Bonnin presented a Horizon special on BBC Two that looked at technology of the future.

In June 2013 she presented the two-part documentary Operation Snow Tiger, working alongside Russian and other scientists in the Ussuriysk Reserve in the Russian Far East.

Since 2013 Bonnin has been a presenter of the ITV series Countrywise, alongside Paul Heiney and Ben Fogle. In November 2013 she presented Animal Odd Couples on BBC One.

She was a co-presenter along with Martin Pepper on the series How the Earth Works that aired on the Discovery Channel in the USA starting on 10 September 2013.

In October 2014 she presented a three-part Horizon series looking into the life of cats. In February 2015 she presented a two-part documentary series called Animals in Love on BBC One, looking at the emotional lives of animals including elephants, monkeys, geese and alligators.

In March 2015, Bonnin presented episodes of Stargazing Live on BBC Two. In August 2015, alongside Matt Baker and Steve Backshall, she co-hosted a series of three programmes for BBC One, Big Blue Live, featuring marine life in Monterey Bay, California. Early 2016 saw Bonnin return to Stargazing Live, where she reported from the European Space Agency's astronaut training centre. She also co-presented the BBC Two series Cats v Dogs: Which is Best? with Chris Packham.

On 17 April 2016, Bonnin presented BBC Two programme Horizon – Should We Close Our Zoos? in which she reported on issues concerning zoos and their keeping of large mammals and their role in preserving endangered species.

Bonnin featured on the BBC's Who Do You Think You Are? on 8 December 2016. In the programme she traced the ancestry of both her parents on the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Martinique.

Starting on 30 March 2017, Bonnin presented a new BBC One series called Galapagos exploring the species found on the islands and in the seas around. In July 2017, she co-presented Wild Alaska Live with Matt Baker and Steve Backshall on BBC One. In 2018, Bonnin will present a one-off documentary for BBC One called Drowning In Plastic, looking at the problem of marine plastic pollution.