Paul Ratcliffe is a Series Producer and Director with chief responsibility for advising on a range of food programming. Paul has been with Optomen for over 12 years and in that time has made key creative contributions to almost all of the company’s hits.
At the moment Paul is Series Producer on BBC2’s What To Eat Now, where he’s working with new chef-on-the-block, Valentine Warner and his foray into the world of seasonal food.
Previously Paul series produced Kitchen Criminsal featuring chefs Angela Hartnett and John Burton Race. He also produced and directed on C4’s BAFTA nominated Gordon Ramsay’s F Word and on the BAFTA nominated second series of Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares. Before that he was Series Producer and Director on C4’s Return Of The Chef, and on archaeology series Two Men In A Trench and Series Director on the BAFTA winning The Naked Chef, both for BBC2.
Prior to his career as a director, Paul won numerous awards as an editor - including several for his work on all four series of Two Fat Ladies and an RTS for documentary series Discovering Japan.