His BBC credits include Life, Human Planet, Blue Planet, Planet Earth, Frozen Planet and Ocean Giants. Allan, 61, has been described by Sir David Attenborough as “the toughest in the business”.
The Scotsman’s series of evening presentations, which begin this month, provide engaging personal recollections backed by film clips and stills from his work in providing some of the finest images ever seen of creatures and their environments.
Allan’s tour dates are:
12 October The Dancehouse, Manchester (01612 379753)
18 October Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow (0141 353 8000)
20 October The Universal Hall, Findhorn (01309 690110)
21 October Aberdeen Arts centre, Aberdeen (01224 641 122)
22 October MacRobert, Stirling (01786 466666)
29 October The Malting Theatre, Berwick upon Tweed (01289 330999)
30 October The Theatre Royal, Dumfries (01387 253383)
31 October Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline (01383 602302)
1 November Galerie, Caernarfon (01286 685222)
2 November Lancaster Grand Theatre, Lancaster (01524 64695)
3 November Pyramid and Parr Hall, Warrington (01925 442345)
4 November Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury (01743 281281)
6 November The Crescent Theatre, Birmingham (0121 643 5858)
8 November The Cresset, Peterborough (01733 265 705)
11 November Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal (01539 725133)
12 November The RoyalLyceum Theatre, Edinburgh (0131 248 4848)
14 November The Corran Halls, Oban (01631 567333)
Allan’s latest work has been to film a documentary in the Arctic, Operation Iceberg, with presenter Andy Torbet, who will talk about the programme at this month’s Dive 2012 exhibition at Birmingham’s NEC.
Operation Iceberg will be screened by BB2 at 8pm on Sundays 14 and 21 October.
In addition, Allan describes the kit he uses as a diving film maker in DIVER Magazine’s My Favourite Kit, published in November.
Allan worked as a pearl diver, diving instructor and commercial diver and biologist in the Red Sea after graduating in marine biology at Scotland’s Stirling University.
He went to Antarctica in 1976 as the diving officer on a British research station and, over the next decade, spent five winters and eight summers down south, working up his photographic and filming skills.
He went full-time as a freelance photographer and documentary film maker in 1986, specializing in “extreme habitats”, mainly in the polar zones.
To date Allan has made some 50 journeys to the poles to shoot for the BBC, Discovery Channel and National Geographic. He has contributed to more than 60 natural history productions.
Earlier this year Allan, who holds numerous film making and photographic awards, published his autobiography Freeze Frame: A Wildlife Cameraman's Adventures on Ice.
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