Will Millard
Will Millard is a British expedition leader, writer and broadcaster. He was born in Norfolk and grew up there before moving abroad to become a teacher. Expeditions. Millard spent several years in New Guinea, leading several expeditions exploring the local area between 2008 and 2012. In 2013 he travelled down the rafts on the border of Sierra Leone and Liberia. Presenting. 2015 saw Millard present Hunters of the South Sea. Each episode saw him live with a community which still relied heavily on fishing and investigated how these communities were adapting to the modern world. The series was  broadcast on BBC Two. In 2016 Millard presented a three part series ‘The River Taff’ in which he examined the ecology of the Welsh River. In 2017 Millard presented Hidden Cardiff, a one-off documentary investigating the history of the Welsh capital. In 2018 he continued to explore Wales, presenting 'Hidden Wales', while also presenting the three part series ‘The River Wye.’ 2018 also saw present ‘My Year with the Tribe’, an award-winning documentary in which Millard spends a year with a tribe in West Papua. During his time he learns that previous documentaries had filmed an unrealistic portrayal  of the lives of the tribes and uncovered that their culture was changing rapidly due to interactions with the modern world. In 2019 he presented the six-part series ‘Go Fish’, which was broadcast on the BBC. 2020 saw him present ‘Hidden Wales II.’ Books. In 2018 Millard had his first book published, titled ‘The Old Man and the Sand Eel.’