Autor/-in: Sarah Patten

Sarah Patten is mother to a son with Asperger Syndrome. She has a BSc in Environmental Science and has worked as a marine ecologist for various engineering companies, and also ran a whale stranding programme at the Natural History Museum. After writing film and TV scripts in her spare time, she went on to work as a scriptwriter at the BBC's Natural History Unit, and has since progressed to directing factual programmes and some mainstream primetime shows. She has also lectured in science and media at Royal Holloway, University of London and Northwestern University, Illinois. She now lives in Tunbridge Wells, UK.