BAFTA award-winning wildlife cameraman and photographer, Doug Allan return to the Tivoli Theatre in Wimborne next month.

Doug is responsible for much of the footage on programmes, such as The Blue Planet, Planet Earth, Ocean Giants, Frozen Planet, Life In The Freezer, Operation Iceberg and others.

He has filmed all over the world, including high mountains and tropical seas, but he is most noted for the 35 years that he has been working and filming in the Antarctic and Arctic. He is described by David Attenborough as the toughest in the business and he will talk about his experiences filming in the polar regions.

Using both still images and video clips, he will go behind the scenes on the making of these programmes, the techniques of diving in cold water environment, the challenges of capturing the required footage and about his topside experiences.

Following on from his acclaimed Life Behind the Lens tours in 2012 and 2013, In the Company of Giants is an all-new show, full of new stories and fresh insights, told in Doug’s inimitable style.

Illustrated with mesmerising footage and photographs from his film-making career, we’ll hear how Doug overcame incredible odds to capture images of the planet’s most magnificent animals. Audiences can ask Doug questions about his encounters and travels, and discover what it’s like to be up close and personal with nature’s biggest creatures.

Doug Allan told the Daily Echo: “Big animals are my passion. I love sharing, first hand with audiences, what it’s like to face a hungry polar bear, to swim eye to eye with an enormous Southern Right Whale and talk about the excitement of being stalked by killer whales in the straits of Gibraltar.

“It’s like live TV, only better.”

Doug continues to film across a range of projects.

Shoots last year included a colony of Emperor penguins in Antarctica, a trip to the South Pole, Hammerhead Sharks in Galapagos for the conservation group Living Oceans Foundation and polar bears for the feature film Midnight Sun due for release later in the year.

He was with Chris Packham for the BBC series Inside the Animal Mind on BBC 2 and right now he’s back in Antarctica filming leopard seals with CBBC’s Deadly 60 team.