PRODUCER/DIRECTOR

ARCTIC SINKHOLES / PBS / NOVA, 2023

WINNER, 2023 duPONT-COLUMBIA AWARDS, COLUMBIA JOURNALISM SCHOOL

1 x 60, Blink Films (Exec Tom Adams), TX Feb 2023; 12 million views on NOVA YouTube.

• Freak explosive craters are opening up in Siberia - now international scientists race to piece together the evidence that reveals global warming is happening faster than we’d thought.

• ‘Smart graphics, beautiful photography, cutting edge research… it was alarming to learn how much we don’t know about this looming threat to our planet.’ Lisa R. Cohen, duPont-Columbia Awards Director

 

PRODUCER/DIRECTOR

A LIFE IN TEN PICTURES: ROBIN WILLIAMS / BBC2 / INTERNATIONAL

1x60, BBC Studios (Execs Tanya Hudson, Tom Currie), TX April 2024

• A trove of never-before-seen family photos and footage, along with interviews with Robin Williams’ brother, wife and son reveal an intimate portrait of the gifted but troubled actor.

• ‘Fascinating’, Sunday Times, ‘Tremendous’, Times, ‘Prepare to feel all the emotions’, Pick of the Week, Observer

 

PRODUCER/DIRECTOR

THE REAL SPIES AMONG FRIENDS / ITV1 (UK)

1x60, Wingspan Productions (Exec Archie Baron), TX Aug 2023

• Senior figures in the CIA, MI5 and the KGB reveal the shocking, unvarnished story of the Cambridge Spies, Britain’s most notorious espionage ring, with exclusive access to victims talking for the first time.

• ‘A perfect documentary’ London Times

 

SERIES DIRECTOR

TUT’S TOXIC TOMB / NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC / SCIENCE / CHANNEL 4

2 x 90, Blink Films (Execs Justine Kershaw, Laura Jones) TX June 2022

• Palaeontologist Ella Al-Shamahi and a team of toxicologists uncover new evidence to reveal the shocking chemical truth behind the century-old “Curse of the Pharaohs”.

• ‘Fascinating documentary’, Daily Mail

 

PRODUCER/DIRECTOR

A HOUSE THROUGH TIME / BBC TWO

1 x 60, Twenty Twenty (Exec Mary Crisp), TX Sep 2021

• Acclaimed social history series telling the story of Britain through the lives, loves and losses of the inhabitants of a single house in Leeds.

• ‘An hour full of surprises… wonderful’ Telegraph, ‘A triumph of research… the best kind of social history’ Alan Bennett

 

PRODUCER/DIRECTOR

X-RAY EARTH / NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

3x60, Blink Films (Exec Dan Gold), TX July 2020

• Major international science series shot across the USA, Iceland and Indonesia, using cutting-edge science to reveal the dangers hidden beneath our feet.

• ‘Prepare to be astounded’, Daily Mail

 

PRODUCER/DIRECTOR

MODERN ELIZABETHANS / BBC TWO

3x60, BBC Studios (Exec Denys Blakeway), TX Dec 2020

• From Global Empire to Brexit Britain – a landmark BBC TWO series on Britain’s place in the world in the 20th century, shot in the UK and Italy

• ‘Fascinating… five stars’, TV Times

 

PRODUCER/DIRECTOR

DISPATCHES: HOW TO LOSE SEVEN BILLION POUNDS / CHANNEL 4

* WINNER, BEST VIDEO JOURNALISM OF 2018, WINCOTT AWARDS FOR FINANCIAL JOURNALISM

1x60, Quicksilver Media (Exec Eamonn Matthews), TX August 2018

• Liam Halligan investigates the downfall of Carillion, the outsourcing giant that collapsed in Jan 2018 owing billions of pounds of public money

• ‘Tells this sorry tale with righteous anger’, Telegraph

• ‘Should be repeated week in, week out, lest our anger at what happened at Carillion fades’, London Times

 

SENIOR PRODUCER/DIRECTOR

JAMES NESBITT: DISASTERS THAT CHANGED BRITAIN / HISTORY CHANNEL

6x60, Liberty Bell (Execs Michele Carlisle and Jamie Isaacs), TX March 2018

• Senior Producer across series, and Director for three films on the Herald of Free Enterprise ferry sinking, the Kings Cross Station Fire, and the Piper Alpha Oil Rig disaster, with extensive first person testimony from witnesses and survivors

 

PRODUCER-DIRECTOR

WHO SHOULD WE LET IN? THE FIRST GREAT IMMIGRATION ROW / BBC TWO

1x60, Wingspan Productions (Execs Archie Baron and Deborah Lee), TX June 2017

• Centrepiece of BBC2’s Brexit season – how did a a Victorian nation that prided itself on its open door became Brexit Britain?

• ‘Razor-sharp,’ Guardian

 

PRODUCER-DIRECTOR

THE ROYAL HOUSE OF WINDSOR / CHANNEL 4 / NETFLIX

6x60, Spun Gold (Execs Nick Bullen, Denys Blakeway), TX March 2017

• Two films in major landmark series on the first century of the Windsor dynasty, examining Prince Philip the moderniser and the assassination of Lord Mountbatten

• Extensive UK and overseas filming including Malta and west coast of Ireland

• ‘Fascinating’ Telegraph, ‘Excellent series’ Guardian

 

PRODUCER-DIRECTOR

BORIS V DAVE: THE BATTLE FOR EUROPE / CHANNEL 4

1x60, Blakeway Productions (Exec Karen Edwards), TX May 2016

• Examination of the smouldering rivalry between Prime Ministers David Cameron and Boris Johnson, with interviewees including Michael Heseltine, Stanley Johnson, Norman Lamont

• ‘Revealing and insightful’, Vice News, ‘Supremely entertaining’, Times

 

PRODUCER-DIRECTOR

HOW TO BE BOHEMIAN / BBC FOUR

1x60, Wingspan Productions (Execs Archie Baron, Deborah Lee), TX June 2015

Some of the most colourful commentators in Britain, including John Cooper Clarke, Maggi Hambling and Stephen Fry, debate the question, ‘Is Bohemia dead?’

• ‘Wonderfully intelligent series’, Sunday Times

 

PRODUCER-DIRECTOR

SAINTS AND SINNERS: BRITAIN’S MILLENNIUM OF MONASTERIES / BBC FOUR

3x60, Oxford Film and Television (Execs Nick Kent/Sue Jones), TX Feb 2015

Producer across three episodes of landmark series filmed across the UK and Ireland

Ambitions schedule with extensive travel and major locations delivered on a challenging budget

•  ‘This fascinating series’, Five Stars, Times

 

PRODUCER-DIRECTOR

IN THEIR OWN WORDS: GREAT ARTISTS / BBC FOUR

1x60, In-House (Exec Julian Birkett), TX May 2013

• Profile of nine 20th century artists featuring rare and rediscovered footage, including Picasso and Dali, and interviews with Antony Gormley, Joan Bakewell, Grayson Perry

• ‘Superb series’, Telegraph; Programme of the Week, Independent; Five Stars, Mail

 

PRODUCER

HENRY VIII AND HIS SIX WIVES / CHANNEL 4

4x60, Oxford Film and Television for Channel 5 (Execs Nick Kent/Sue Jones), TX April 2016

• Producer across polemical series on Henry VIII’s wives analysed through warring perspectives of king and queen, presented by Susannah Lipscomb and Dan Jones

 

PRODUCER

THE WORLD’S GREATEST SPY MOVIES / CHANNEL 4

1x90, Oxford Film and Television (Execs Nick Kent, Sue Jones), Jan 2016

• Fast turnaround primetime Saturday night special for Channel 4 in which real life spies pick the ten best spy movies of all time

• Rapid setup filming in the USA and Germany including delicate CIA, MI5 and MI6 access

 

PRODUCER

THE REAL TOM THUMB: HISTORY’S SMALLEST SUPERSTAR / BBC FOUR / BBC WORLDWIDE

1x90, Wingspan Productions (Exec Archie Baron) TX November 2014

• Feature-length documentary on actor and comedian General Tom Thumb, America’s first global celebrity, with presenter Michael Grade, shot in USA

• ‘Enthralling… this film convinced me Tom Thumb was a giant’, Times

 

DEVELOPMENT PRODUCER

• Commissioned treatments include Imagine: Art in Afghanistan (BBC1); Handmade in Britain (Six-series art/history season in partnership with the V&A); Armando Iannucci’s Tale of Charles Dickens (BBC2)

 

• Developed Julien Temple’s London: The Modern Babylon (BBC2, Sep 2012, cinema release 2012; nominations: Best Documentary, British Independent Film Awards; Best Single Documentary, Broadcasting Press Guild Awards; Documentary of the Year, London Critics’ Circle Film Awards)