Jill Fullerton-Smith is an award-winning filmmaker who grew up in New Zealand. After ten years making science programmes for the BBC in London, including several episodes of Horizon, she now runs BBC Scotland’s speciality factual programming department.

She conceived and produced the BBC’s landmark science series ‘The truth about food’ and is the author of the Bloomsbury book, published with the same title.

Jill now lives in Glasgow and London with her husband Andrew and daughter Billi, and has four stepchildren, Michael, Corrina, Alex and Charlie.