My Life

We have installed a camera in our kestrel nest box which has added a whole new dimension to watching wildlife - every year we watch the female laying and incubating her eggs and the devoted adults feeding their chicks. Here’s how they got on last year:

Wildlife

 
 
Image by: Jesper Mattias

Image by: Jesper Mattias

I studied Zoology at Bristol University, where I discovered my interest for conservation while working at WWT Slimbridge in my holidays.  I also discovered my love for making wildlife stories during a 3 month placement as an assistant to a wildlife cameraman on a “Natural World” project. From that experience, I just knew that I wanted to work in wildlife film-making. I managed to secure work at the BBC Natural History Unit, moving from being a Runner to a Researcher and then, in 1998, came my lucky break into presenting for Fox Television. I travelled far and wide presenting topside and underwater and it was this experience, sharing my passion for wildlife which nurtured my career as a wildlife presenter. 

I have been doing the job I love for the last 20 years!  

Outdoor

In the last 20 years I have presented television and radio stories around the world, on environmental issues, travel, wreck diving, fine foods, metal detecting, classical music, local history and marine conservation, but my real passion is exploring the wildlife I see around me from day to day.  

Through my work on and off screen, I hope to convey my love for our environment and the need for effective conservation and my desire to connect people with the world and the wildlife around them.

 
 

I BELIEVE THAT WOMEN SHOULD HAVE A STRONG VOICE AND A POWERFUL PRESENCE AND AS A RESULT OF MY COMMITMENT TO CONSERVATION AND BROADCASTING, I WAS LISTED AS ONE OF THE TOP 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMEN IN THE WEST 2018

“I believe we all need connections with the world around us, with wildlife and our natural surroundings. Too many of us miss out on these opportunities and they are of immense value and importance.”
 
 

Diving

I learnt to scuba dive at University with no idea that it would become a major part of my career. Having traveled and dived all over the world, I still enjoy the excitement and thrill of diving in the chilly waters around the UK - we have such an array and diversity of marine wildlife that few people know about.

Current Diving Qualifications held:

HSE professional SCUBA, BSAC Dive leader, PADI EANX, IANTD Advanced Nitrox, IANTD Normoxic Trimix, PADI Ice Diver, Advanced Hollis rebreather diver.

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In 2019 I became the first UK PADI Ambassadiver - an opportunity to share my love and passion for UK wildlife.

I made a film for PADI on the tompot blenny with Dr Paul Naylor.

“In the male-dominated world of diving, Miranda is one of a rare breed – a female diver on television with an undeniable passion for British diving and the marine life off the UK coastline.”
— Mark Evans, Editor Scuba Diver Magazine

Music

 
 
 

Music is a big part of my life. At university I probably spent more hours a week singing or playing than I did on my degree! Since then I have run my own a capella group and for the last 21 years I have played in the highly acclaimed Bristol-based orchestra: New Bristol Sinfonia. NBS performs four times a year at Bristol’s Victoria Rooms as well as supporting education projects around Bristol’s schools. I have also combined my love for wildlife with musical performances - narrating two concerts for NBS including the pieces: “Peter and the Wolf” and “Carnival of the Animals”.

I have just started singing with the City of Bristol Choir after hosting their concert “Wonderful World” at the end of the COP26 Climate Change conference

In "2019 I embarked on a new collaboration with City of London Sinfonia, introducing 2 concerts on the theme of birdsong to coincide with RSPB Let Nature Sing Campaign 2019

Image by: Adam Fradgley

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