Career
His sound recording career began in 1981 when he joined Tyne Tees Television. His television work includes Bill Oddie Back in the United States of America and Springwatch. In 2006 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Technology degree by the University of the West of England "in recognition of his outstanding contribution to sound recording technology, especially in the field of natural history and documentary location sound".
In 2010 he devised an art project at Liverpool"s Alder Hey Children"s Hospital, using sound recordings made by children to calm other young patients as they received injections and other treatments.
Radio programmes Watson has made and been featured in a number of British Broadcasting Corporation radio programmes: The Reed Bed Series of five, fifteen-minute radio programmes, broadcast on Radio Four from 19–23 March 2007. A Guide to Garden Birds Series of five, fifteen-minute radio programmes, broadcast weekly on Radio Four from 22 May 2007 A Guide to Farmland Birds Series of five, fifteen-minute radio programmes, broadcast weekly on Radio Four from 22 August 2011 Stepping into the Dark (1996, Touch (United Kingdom) Touch ) Outside the Circle of Fire (1998, Touch (United Kingdom) Touch ) Weather Report (2003, Touch (United Kingdom) Touch ) El Tren Fantasma (2011, Touch (United Kingdom) Touch ) In Street Cuthbert"s Time (2013, Touch (United Kingdom) Touch ) Star Switch On with Mika Vainio, Philip Jeck, Hazard, Fennesz, American Economic Review, and Biosphere (2002, Touch (United Kingdom) Touch ) Number One with KK Null and Z"EV (2005, Touch (United Kingdom) Touch ) J. Nilsen (2006, Touch (United Kingdom) Touch ) Cross-Pollination (Chris Watson + Marcus Davidson album) (2011, Touch (United Kingdom) Touch ).
