Jimmy Doherty meets builders who are turning everyday vehicles into campervans. He lends a hand to these ambitious projects and gets inspiration for his own dream build.
Bees are disappearing fast, with 46% of species having declined in the past 10 years; Jimmy Doherty looks at the reasons why, and rallies the people of Peterborough to bring back the bees.
Jimmy Doherty visits far-flung places to meet people who have created new lives for themselves in surprising and unlikely locations
After returning to his home town and the church, Vince embarks of a dangerous downward spiral of redemption and revenge.
Jamie Oliver and Jimmy Doherty pair up to open a pop-up caff on Southend pier. They also take to the continent to pit the best of British food against Europe's finest.
Jimmy Doherty embarks on a quest to reveal the hidden lives of farmyard animals.
Museum of Life is a 2010 BBC2 documentary, that takes a look behind the scenes at the British Museum of Natural History. It is introduced and co-presented by Jimmy Doherty, who was a volunteer at the Natural History Museum ten years previously. Other presenters are Kate Bellingham, Liz Bonnin, Mark Carwardine, and Chris Van Tulleken. The six-part program ranges over topics such as the care and maintenance of the Museum's 70 million specimens, and the relevance of research by the Museum scientists to contemporary problems such as biodiversity loss and the spread of tropical disease.
Jimmy Doherty sets out to discover if the world's farmers will be able to feed us in the future
One of the things that is moving with the global warming, the search for new energy sources and the fight against AIDS is the cause of genetically modified plants. Many people believe that this new technology will solve the problem of hunger on Earth in the near future, and another large group sees it as a danger to the genetic pool of existing agricultural crops and to the health of all humankind. The British farmer and quirky practitioner Jimmy Doherty therefore went out into the world in the company of BBC filmmakers to find out what the current situation is. His conclusions could not, of course, be unambiguous. A serious observer must state that the problem of genetically modified crops is an open chapter with great promise for the future. The proverbial "but" will, however, accompany an even longer period of debate about this - perhaps - revolutionary method ...
Suffolk based farmer and television presenter formerly for the BBC and now for Channel 4, famous for the show Jimmy's Farm, detailing the operation of the Essex Pig Company that he and his wife Michaela Furney owned.