OLLY’S WORLD
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Turning Tidal: Earthrise, AJE The European Union has set a target of 20% of its energy needs coming from renewable sources by 2020. To make this happen, they will have to harness the power of wind sun and the sea…. In the first of a series of films for Al Jazeera’s EARTHRISE, I travelled to the coast of Northern Ireland to explore the potential of tidal power. More information |
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Australia’s Hidden Valley: Unreported World, C4 Four years ago, the Australian Government used controversial emergency legislation (aka ‘the Intervention’), aimed only at aboriginal Australians, to take control of many Aboriginal settlements. Australia’s Hidden Valley follows the lives of Aboriginal people in Alice Springs, focusing largely on a town camp called Hidden Valley, one of many places affected by the Intervention. More information…. |
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Conservation’s Dirty Secrets: Dispatches, C4 Conservation is crucial – we’re in an extinction crisis, set to lose 2.5million species by 2050 and we need to get it right. Dispatches exposes questionable business practices, human rights violations and sentimentality driving scientific priorities. More information… |
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China’s Lost Sons: Unreported World Investigating reports that the mentally impaired are being abducted into slavery by trafficking gangs in China. Oliver reveals that as China powers ahead, often the most vulnerable are being left behind and all too often exploited – a story that holds the key to understanding China’s most repressive crackdown since Tiananmen 1989. More information |
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Malaria Town: Unreported World For Channel 4′s critically acclaimed foreign affairs series ‘Unreported World’ Oliver reports from Apac, “the most malaria capital of the world” in Northern Uganda. He reveals shocking levels of corruption including the theft of malaria treatment drugs, and how organic products sold on Britain’s high streets are also playing a role in continuing the pandemic. More information… |
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Solving History with Olly Steeds In this 8part series for Discovery Channel in the US and Worldwide, Oliver mixed history, adventure and frontline journalism to investigate the truth behind some of the world’s biggest mysteries – Atlantis, Ark of the Covenant, Nazca Lines, El Dorado, Escape from Devil’s Island, Hitler’s Mummies, Robin Hood, and Nazi Treasure (The Amber Room). More information… |
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Last of the Reindeer Herders Chronicling the struggle of Lapland’s Sami people, facing a challenge to their right to use ancient grazing land. Anders Kroik, one of the last of the Sami reindeer herders in Lappland must herd his reindeer to their winter grazing land or they would starve in an environment of minus 30 degrees, but for the past few years these forests have been at the front-line in the Sami’s battle for survival. More information… |
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Unreported World: The Great Escape For Channel 4’s award winning and critically acclaimed foreign affairs series, ‘Unreported World’, Oliver travelled to the remote Chinese-North Korean border to report on the plight of thousands of North Korean women who have been forced into prostitution or sold as brides after fleeing persecution and starvation in one of the most secretive and repressive regimes in the world. More information… |
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Digital Explorer Digital Explorer and our Academy of Exploration is where expeditions and expeditions meet to engage young people in global issues for a better future. Our unique projects utilize the latest communication technologies to bring the frontier of science and exploration live to the classroom – empowering youth interaction like never before, and making a journey of a few into a gateway for learning and understanding for many. More info… |
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Living with the Machigenga Oliver joins forces once again with The Captain (Mark Anstice) for their 3rd acclaimed series, this time living with, and documenting the lives of the Machigenga in the Peruvian Amazon. In 8 parts for the Travel Channel (US) & BBC (Worldwide). |
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China Series A 9 part series investigating China’s changing political, cultural and economic landscape in the lead up to the Beijing Olympics 2008 – including a journey down ‘The Yangtze’ to take the pulse of the nation from China’s main artery, delving into China’s lethal coal mines and joining The New Red Guards to investigate the new Cultural Revolution that’s ripping into the fabric of Chinese identity. More information… |
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Living with the Mek (World’s Lost Tribes) Following on from the success and survival whilst Living with the Kombai, Oliver and Mark returned to West Papua – this time to live with Mek Tribe in the highland jungles. 8 part series for the Travel Channel in the US and Discovery Channel worldwide. More information… |
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The Beagle Campaign We’ve established the Beagle Campaign to investigate and engage in a dialogue about the future of exploration and how the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) might best reach the goal of becoming the world leader of geographical discovery More information… |
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2010: The Power of Football The World Cup is coming to South Africa but the rainbow nation is divided – the World Cup could become a vehicle for much needed development, but critics argue priorities should be investment in health care, education and curbing crime. More information… |
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The San Story The San Story is an investigative report about the San Bushmen of the Kalahari, how they have been forced off their land by the Botswana but have fought back and recently won back the rights to the land. This is a rare positive story of successful indigenous political activism and ancestral knowledge that may secure their financial future. More information… |
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Living with the Kombai (World’s Lost Tribes) Teaming up with jungle guru Mark Anstice, Mark and Olly embarked on a unique expedition into one of the most remote rainforests on Earth, the jungles of West Papua, to live with and document the lives of the Kombai tribe, thought to still practice cannibalism. In 6 parts for the Travel Channel in the US and Discovery Worldwide. More information… |
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Marathon Des Sables Some say it is the toughest foot-race on earth, 6days, 6+ marathons back-to-back across the Sahara Desert, carrying all your own kit – madness? With confused motivations, Marathon Des Sables became Oliver’s Marathon Des Sades. Read his diaries – the Daily Pain (offensive if you’re French). |
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Highway 15: Kingdom at the Crossroads 12 of the 15 Saudis involved in 9-11 came from the tribes that straddle Highway 15, Saudi’s route 66. A coincidence? Highway 15 provided film-maker Oliver Steeds with a perfect rare street-level insight into a ‘kingdom at the crossroads’ of change – 70% of Saudi are under 30 – a demographic timebomb – the spiritual home of Islam, a quater of the world’s oil, popular with Al Qaeda…More information… |
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Masters & Slaves Two investigative journeys deep into the heart of the Sahara to explore rumours that slavery was still not consigned to the history books. In both Mauritania and Niger, masters still keep slaves. Two separate reports aired on ABC News Nightline and Al Jazeera People & Power. With the assistance of Anti-Slavery International. More information… |
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Burma: Pillaging Paradise A series of undercover, investigative reports into $300million of illegal timber being smuggled from Burma’s interior across to China – the financial lifeline that’s keeping the junta in business. Further documentary investigating whether the armed ethnic insurgent groups like the Kachin Independence Army and their political wing, the Kachin Independence Organisation, could present any meaningful military or political opposition to the Generals. More information… |
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Xanadu Royal Geographical Society endorsed historical research expedition to explore, investigate and document the remains of the Grass Silk Road that ran from Genghis Kahn’s capital Karakorum to Kubla’s Yuan Shangdu (aka Xanadu). Expedition included riding across the Mongolian Steppe and then walking 1400km across the Gobi Desert. Rather badly organised, and largely his own fault, lots went wrong. More information… |