Christopher Sykes is a TV documentary producer based in London.  He was born in 1945, and was educated at the Atlantic College and Merton College, Oxford where he read English.  In 1970 he joined the BBC as a television researcher.

He has made about seventy documentaries for BBC TV and Channel 4, some of which have been shown on PBS/Nova – notably the programs he made with and about Richard Feynman (The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, Last Journey of a Genius and The Best Mind Since Einstein). He is also a consultant to Web of Stories, an online video collection of in-depth interviews with many of the great minds of our time.