Dale is an accomplished public speaker, lecturer and television producer and personality . She worked as a senior  producer and director in factual programming at the BBC for over 20 years. Based at the world famous Natural History Unit in Bristol she ran the double BAFTA winning series landmark Human Planet. 

Trained as a journalist, Dale started working in BBC network current affairs and has specialized in making television programmes abroad, often in remote and occasionally hostile locations. She has worked for the Science Department, but in the last 12 years has moved between the Natural History Unit and foreign documentaries combining her passion for wildlife, travel and humanity. Dale has now been to over 60 countries and she has worked in every continent including Antarctica. She has produced with many top presenters and journalists at the BBC and recently ran a new series with Bear Grylls for Channel 4.

Dale was the recipient of the 2011 Royal Geographical Award Cherry Kearton Award for Natural History    cinematography. She also the co-author of the Human Planet book that accompanied the series. 

In 2009 Dale started writing for The Lonely Planet Magazine and regularly gives lectures and talks around the UK and abroad on themes around the Human Planet, the environment, wildlife, leadership and motivation . This year she has hosted a range of events, given numerous lectures and talks and has been interviewed on radio and television in the UK, USA and Australia. She has recently lectured at Cambridge, Durham , Bristol and many other  universities to student studying anthropology, geography and media.  Dale is a guest lecturer at the BBC academy. She is known for the passion and enthusiasm she brings to her subjects.

Human Planet - Dale Templar – Series Producer

Following in the footsteps of "Planet Earth" and "Life" , "Human Planet " was the first ever landmark documentary series from the world famous Natural History Unit in Bristol to focus on human beings. The series continues to win a raft of awards and was sold around the world to over 50 countries.

The series has been made in over 70 of the most remote locations on earth and combines anthropology, armchair travel and wildlife by looking at people who still live in wild environments with wild animals.