Tim Dee is a poet and an art host, producer and reviewer at the BBC since 1988. He was born in Liverpool in 1961, received a BA in English from Cambridge University and pursued postgraduate study in Hungarian poetry at the University of Budapest, worked as a research assistant for the International Council for Bird Preservation, and is currently editing the "Penguin Book of Bird Poetry" with Simon Armitage. He has been watching birds since he was 3.