Deborah Cadbury

Deborah Cadbury is an award-winning British author and BBC television producer specialising in fundamental issues of science and history, and their effects on modern society.

She has been making documentary programs for the BBC for over 20 years and has received numerous awards, including an Emmy, for her work on the BBC's Horizon strand.

Her film Assault On The Male launched a worldwide scientific research campaign into the hormone-mimicking chemicals that are harming human health.

Her 2000 book The Dinosaur Hunters that examined the bitter rivalry between the early fossil hunters who pieced together the evidence of a prehistoric world was turned into a TV film by Granada Productions

She produced the ground-breaking 2003 docudrama Seven Wonders of the Industrial World for which she also wrote the companion book.

Her 2003 book The Lost King Of France telling the tragic story of Marie Antoinette’s favourite son is to be developed as a film by Lynda La Plante.

Filmography

• Horizon: Dawn of the Clone Age (1997), writer & producer
• Seven Wonders of the Industrial World (2003), series producer
• End Day (2005), executive producer
• Space Race (2005), series producer
• Nuclear Secrets (2007), executive producer
• In Search of Medieval Britain (2008), executive producer
• Inside the Medieval Mind (2008), executive producer

Bibliography

• Altering Eden: The Feminisation of Nature, 1999, St Martins Press, ISBN 0-312-24396-0
• The Estrogen Effect: How Chemical Pollution Is Threatening Our Survival, 2000, St. Martin's Griffin, ISBN 978-0312267070
• The Dinosaur Hunters: : A True Story of Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Prehistoric World, 2001, HarperCollins,
• The Lost King of France: Revolution, revenge and the search for Louis XVII, St. Martin's Griffin; Reprint edition (October 23, 2003),
• Cadbury, Deborah (August 26, 2003). Seven Wonders of the Industrial World. Fourth Estate (hardcover). ISBN 978-0007163045. 
• Cadbury, Deborah (September 5, 2005). Space Race. Fourth Estate (hardcover). ISBN 978-0007209958. 
• Chocolate Wars: The 150-Year Rivalry Between the World's Greatest Chocolate Makers, 2010, PublicAffairs ISBN 9781586488208 (USA); Douglas & McIntyre ISBN 9781553655749 (Canada) Radio interview w/Deborah on topic

References

• Deborah Cadbury page at the publisher HarperCollins. Accessed March 2007
• Deborah Cadbury page at IMDB. Accessed March 2007

Reviews

Review of The Lost King of France by R.J. Stove, Quadrant 2003 Volume XLVII Number 6

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