Matthew Wheeler is a director, producer and screenwriter. He spent 15 years at the BBC directing and producing television documentaries (current affairs, polemics, history, technology, and observational fly-on-the-wall factual entertainment series). In 2015 Matthew left the BBC to set up Bottle Alley Films Ltd, a production company that produces documentary films and specialist factual television series focused on popular science and innovations, history, food and travel.