Geoff Deehan

Background

Geoff Deehan was born on 14 June 1952 in Norton, County Durham.

Career

He is also the creator and producer of the Plane Crash Documentary on Channel Four. He left in 1970 to study electronics engineering at Sussex University. Deehan spent 15 years working for the British Broadcasting Corporation as a television and radio producer and Head of Science Programmes during which time he developed such strands as Science Now and Medicine Now.

In his role as Head of Factual Programmes with Union Pictures, which he joined in 1990, he produced a string of successful television documentaries for Horizon and Equinox at the British Broadcasting Corporation and Channel Four respectively.

He produced a four-part series on the exotic people, places and animals of the Indonesian Archipelago which was aired on Sky and is the producer of Plane Crash, a documentary in which an international team of scientists, experts and elite pilots deliberately crash land a 170-seat Boeing 727 passenger jet to study the mechanics of a plane crash in real time. The Plane Crash received viewer figures of over 4 million and was nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts in the Specialist Factual category in 2013.

Deehan is the successful author of two books, "The Descent of Mind" and "The Keys to Creativity," considered by many to be the seminal publication on the subject.

Achievements

• Deehan is a former "Science Writer of the Year" and a Sony Award winner for his British Broadcasting Corporation programme, Medicine Now. As Executive Producer, he also won a Royal Television Society Award for his documentary, "Losing it" about the effect of mental attitude upon sports performance. He is also the founder of The Media Training Company, a training organisation which coaches people to get the best out of media encounters and Puerto Rico crises.