Educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge University, he has contributed to such magazines and newspapers as New Scientist, World Medicine, Wildlife Conservation, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Independent, and the Guardian. He was a features editor at New Scientist in 1980-84. From 1985 to 1990 he worked at the BBC Radio Science Unit, where he developed, wrote, and presented five series in its principal science program. He is the sole 3 time recipient of the Glaxo/ABSW Science Writer of the Year Award. A Fellow of the Zoological Society of London since 1972 and a member of its council since 1992, Tudge is a founding member of the London Zoo Fellows' Reform. Tudge's books include: