Judith Bunting

Bunting has been a producer of educational and science-based documentary television since the 1990s. Her early producing credits include the BBC series Tomorrow's World, Teen Species,[6][7] Horizon[8] and Robert Winston's The Secret Life of Twins[9] and Superhuman.[10]

She produced three series of the series Body Hits[11] and the RTS Award-winning Breast Cancer - the Operation for BBC3.[12]

In 2007, she was series producer for the BBC Wales series, The Museum. She followed this by executive producing Rocket Science for BBC2[13] and Headshrinkers of the Amazon for the National Geographic Channel. Her 2009 documentary for the National Geographic Channel, The Neanderthal Code was nominated for a Grierson Award for Best Science Documentary.[14]

Since 2013, Bunting has been series producer for production company Remark! on over 30 episodes of Magic Hands, a programme for CBeebies featuring poetry and Shakespeare for children translated entirely into British Sign Language, in which the presenters are all profoundly deaf.[15]

Since 2012, Bunting has increasingly focused on politics. In the 2015 and 2017 UK General Elections, she stood as the Liberal Democrat candidate for Newbury[16] and both times came a distant second behind Richard Benyon.[17] She has consistently pursued a broader engagement with science in politics and education.[18][19] In September 2017, Bunting ruled out a third run as the Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Newbury to "focus on her career as a television producer".[20]

Bunting was elected as a Liberal Democrat MEP for the South East England in the 2019 European Elections.[21] She was the Liberal Democrat Spokesperson on Education and Culture in Europe, and also sat on the Industry, Research and Energy committee.