Emperors of the ice
Despite her sunny demeanour, Sue Flood is clearly a driven woman. After telling one of her schoolteachers in her native North Wales that she would make wildlife films with David Attenborough when she grew up, and being firmly told ‘No one gets to do that’, she went on to do exactly that.
Her path to working for the BBC’s Natural History Unit came via studying Zoology at Durham University, and volunteering for wildlife and diving projects in Australia and Bermuda, among others. Sue explains, ‘Those sorts of things helped me to get my foot in the door at the BBC back in 1993. I went from being a researcher to assistant producer, producer and director.’ Her impressive CV includes working on and the original TV series but, after an 11-year
