An award winning producer/director, Peter has shot around the world for films like Millennium: A thousand years of history (BBC/CNN), and Commanding Heights: the Battle for the World Economy (PBS/BBC). As a development producer he has turned books like Guns, Germs and Steel, and 1421: The Year China Discovered the World, into TV documentaries. Other credits include Britain’s Finest Castles, Britain’s Finest Ancient Monuments (Channel Five) and Weapons that Made Britain (Channel 4). His most recent TV series, Tales from the Green Valley, 12 x 1/2 hrs about life on a farm in the year 1620, was shown on BBC2 in the UK to large audiences and wide critical acclaim. He also runs
Peter Sommer Travels a multi-award-winning tour operator specialising in expert-led gulet cruises, gulet charters and cultural and archaeological tours in Croatia, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Turkey and the UK.
