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 latest 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.

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