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Producer/Director making BAFTA, RTS, Producers’ Guild of America and EMMY award-winning films. Emmy finalist Best Factual Director 2022. Experience across the range of film-making situations; live, long-form observational, short, very short, 90-minute, feature, multi-part series as sole director, series director, series producer-director and self-shooter on all formats for all major world broadcasters and the web.
Current
Director
Tucci - The Heart of Italy
(National Geographic) BBC Studios, London October 23-July 24 10 X 46m
Re-joining Tuccisphere to help shape new look and feel of first season with new broadcaster. Directing Large crew on four camera shoots across four seasons. DoP Matt Ball. Comm Ed Madonna Benjamin.
Recent
Director
The Hills are Alive with the Kanneh-Masons
(BBC2 Music) Wag Entertainment, Salzburg, June 23 (BBC2 Music) Wag Entertainment, Salzburg, June 23
Sumptuous Christmas Day project following family of seven classical virtuosos as they travel to Austria in the footsteps of the seven Von Trapp children as told in The Sound of Music. DoP Andew Muggleton. C/Exec Suzy Klein.
Producer/Director
Modern Monarchies
(BBC Select/BBC2) News and Current Affairs, Europe and USA, Jan-April 23 1X 59m
Self-shot whistle-stop sampling of eleven continental European monarchies, as King Charles is crowned. BBC America anchor Katty Kay talks to heads crowned and those deposed and in waiting, about the challenges of staying relevant in the C21st. For US transmission during Coronation, thereafter on BBC2.
Producer/Director
Joanna Lumley, My Best Bits
(C5) Double Yellow Productions Jan 23 1 X 90m
Directing multi-camera central interview with National Treasure. DoP Jaimie Gramston
Director
Charles III: The First Year
(BBC2) Oxford Film and TV, London, Winter 22 2X59m
Initial shooting at Buckingham Palace for this intimate, access-driven portrait of the new King and Queen. Self-shooting and with DoP Rob Goldie.
Producer/Director
Slow Flower Movement pilot
(Aha Productions) Golden Section Films, Berkshire, November 22
Action-packed but intimate observational piece to establish floral maven Kim Fleming, her farm and industry as subjects for BBC2 series.
Director
Community Clothing project
(Patrick Grant Films) Golden Section Films, Blackburn, October 22
Self-shooting five films for Grant’s community-based clothing brand. FX9.
Producer/Director
The House of Burberry • Paramount Plus
Lambent Productions, Brighton 1X90 Feb-June 2022
First of a three-film series of archive and testimony-based studies of pivotal moments in the history of major fashion houses. The story of the twenty-year revolution sparked by Rose-Marie Bravo and Christopher Bailey as they take moribund outwear manufacture to stellar success. DoPs Andrew Muggleton and Rob Goldie.
Series Director
Stanley Tucci; Searching for Italy - season IIa
(CNN International) Raw TV, London June 21 - February 22 3 (of 4) x 46m
The Hollywood star and obsessive foodist samples dishes and talks Italian culture in a 20-region jaunt. Big budget, large crew, 3-camera shoots. Directing 3 of 4 episodes, cutting one. US TX Spring 2022, UK Autumn 2022. Thereafter, edit director of last film in Season II, directed by Tucci himself.
5 2022 Emmy nominations inc Outstanding non-fiction direction, cinematography and editing. WINNER Outstanding Factual Hosted Emmy for Venice film. Winner, Producers’ Guild of America, Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction TV. Best Food Series Fortnum and Mason awards 2023.
Producer/Director
Parkinson at 50
(BBC1) Parkinson Productions, London June 2021 1x60m
Intimate reflections on a half-century as Britain’s preeminent talk show host with Sir Michael at home and at BBC. DoP Jaimie Gramston. TX August 202
History
Producer/Director
Anne: The Princess Royal at 70 • ITV 1
Oxford Film and TV London 1X90 July 2020
Access-led biography with extensive archive and testimony by family members.
Self-shooting / DoPs Andrew Muggleton and Rob Goldie.
Producer/Director
Now and Then • C5
Elephant House Studios 3x46m Summer 2019
Developing this commissioned series telling the evolution of long-standing
British institutions through archive and observational filming.
Series Director
Queen Victoria’s Letters: Episode 2 • BBC 4 Arts
WhatLarks Productions 2x59 Autumn 2014.
Biographer AN Wilson explores the passionate, opinionated Monarch with a
taste for whisky, tartan and handsome servants.
Producer/Series Director
Victoria and Albert: The Wedding • BBC2 and PBS
BBC Studios Bristol London 1X 90m, 2X 60m Christmas 2018
Large-scale drama reconstruction and historical analysis with Lucy Worsley.
Producer/Director
Boy George: Save me from Suburbia • BBC2 Documentary Dept
Ideal World Corporation London 1X59m Oct 16
Boy George recollects his 1970s, spent awaiting fame in suburban South London, and discovers the monumental turmoil suffered by the nation. New York, Lewisham, Soho. DoP Andrew Muggleton.
Producer/Director
The Tale of Beatrix Potter • More4 Features
Daisybeck Productions Leeds 1X47m Spring 2016
August-December 2015 Appraisal of great creativity against the odds; art, science, Peter Rabbit and Patricia Routledge. London, Perth, the Lakes. DoP Sam Ardley.
Finalist RTS Yorkshire: Best Documentary Series
Series Director
Queen Victoria’s Letters: Episode 1 • BBC 4 Arts
WhatLarks Productions 2x59 Autumn 2014.
Biographer AN Wilson explores the passionate, opinionated Monarch with a taste for whisky, tartan and handsome servants.
Producer/Director
Tom Thumb Project • BBC 4 Arts
Wingspan 1X90m TX Spring 2014
Jan-March 2014 Polemic by Michael Grade examining the 19th Century freak
show – and modern manifestations, through a telling of the story of PT
Barnum’s top act, the Small Person General Tom Thumb, his international
public and admirers President Lincoln and Queen Victoria.
Producer/Director
The Genius of Josiah Wedgwood • BBC 4 Arts
WhatLarks Productions 1x59m March 2013
Authored biography by historian AN Wilson of the eighteenth-century
entrepreneur polymath Josiah Wedgwood
Shortlisted for Grierson Best Historical documentary 2012
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Producer/Director
To the Ends of the Earth - Iron from God • C4 Science
Granite Productions 1x50m Feb 2000
Search for a million-ton meteorite last seen amidst the shifting, whispering sands of Saharan Mauritania in 1916.
Writer/director/camera
Timewatch: Elizabeth’s Armada • BBC 2 History
Bellwether Media 1X59m Summer 2009
The recovery, from the only known wreck of an Elizabethan battleship, of
matched cannons that prove a theory about Elizabethan genius in gunnery.
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Director
Solved: The Riddle of the Romanovs • National Geographic
1x60 UK & US Autumn 2008
The grisly discovery of human remains in a Siberian forest and subsequent
forensic analysis spells the end of one of the most enduring – and perplexing –
mysteries of the twentieth century.
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Producer/Director
The Etruscans • Discovery/S4C
Cicada Films Winter 2003
The 1,000 year history of the wealthiest civilisation of the ancient
Mediterranean. London, Philadelphia, Tuscany.
Director
The Real Herod • C4 History
Cicada Films 1X50m Autumn 2003
The inside track on the misunderstood genius of the ancient world. Israel,
Jordan, the occupied territories, Seattle.
Producer/Director
PG Wodehouse: The Long Exile • BBC2 Arts
Invision 1X75m TX Xmas 2002
Definitive story of our greatest comic writer, based on new biography.
Producer/Director
To the Ends of the Earth: The Lost Army of King Cambyses • C4 Science
Granite Productions 1X50m UK/USA 2002.
Investigation into the whereabouts of a mighty Persian host mislaid in the
Western Desert in 2500 BC.* 4.2m viewers, makes C4 Top 10 for this year.
Producer/Director
Museum Mysteries • Discovery
Double Exposure 1X46m USA/UK Spring 2002.
Producer/Director
Smoky Dives • BBC Arts for BBC4
Double Exposure 1X60m BBC4 launch night.
The story of jazz in post-war Soho to mark George Melly’s 75th year.
Producer/Director
To the Ends of the Earth - The Link Goes Missing • C4 Science
Granite Productions 1X50m Spring 2001.
The mysterious disappearance of fossilised Peking Man, the Missing Link in the
1930s.
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Arts
Producer/Series Director/writer/camera
Inside the Met
(PBS) Inside America's Treasure House (BBC) Oxford Film and TV/Apostles London 3X60 Feb 2020- May 2021
Intimate, deep-access observational series inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, first in its pomp, then shuttered by Covid and facing $150m losses, adjusting to the demands of Black Lives Matter, and preparing for a second Trump administration. Self-shooting on FS7. New York. US TX May 2021. BBC TX Autumn 2021. PBS submission, 5 Emmys inc Outstanding non-fiction direction, photography and scriptwriting.
Producer/Director
Arena Special: Hilary Mantel: - Return to Wolf Hall • BBC2
Oxford Film and TV London 1x59 March 2020
Intimate portrait of the Dame and double Booker-winning novelist, placing her
forthcoming work The Mirror and the Light in context of her oeuvre. Tender,
dark, funny. DoPs Rob Goldie, Johan Perry. TX March 20.
Producer/Director/Writer
Passions – Danny Dyer on Harold Pinter • Sky Arts
BBC Studios Salford 1X48 September 2020
In a frank and emotional voyage round his father figure, the soap star reveals his
close relationship with the great playwright. DoP Andrew Muggleton.
Producer/Director
Painting the Holy Land • BBC Religion for BBC1/4
Oxford Film and TV, London and Glasgow 2X59m BBC 1 Good Friday/ Easter Sunday
Scottish artist Lachlan Goudie explores depictions of Christ’s Passion in art
across 2,000 years, and adds to the canon himself, on location. Israel, Occupied
Territories, Glasgow, London. DoP Andrew Muggleton
Director
Shut That Door: An Homage to Larry Grayson • ITV3 Documentaries
Double Yellow 1X98m Easter 2018
Epic biography of the great entertainer with unseen or heard archive, reconstruction and revelations.
Producer/Director
Saturday Night Fever, 40 Years On • BBC2 Arts
IWC 1X59m Christmas 2017
Forensic examination of the reasons for surprise box-office hit of 1977, with
Bruno Tonioli, on fire in New York, Los Angeles and Hackney. UK DoPs Andrew
Muggleton in UK, Danny Dimitroff in US.
Producer/Director/Writer/Camera
Between Yesterday and Tomorrow – Ryan Gander in Japan • BBC 4 Arts
Sundog Pictures 1X59m Spring 2017
Young British Artist Gander on Japanese odyssey in search of evidence to
support his theories about lack of present tense in Japanese culture. Self-shot.
Producer/Director
Passions: Alison Lapper on William Blake • Sky Arts
Caravan Media 1X43 Spring 2017
Artist Lapper on her hero, the greatest British creative we know nothing about.
DoPs Andrew Muggleton, Jaimie Gramston, Kevin Pearsey, Ian Salvage, Ben
Turley.
Producer/Director
No Body’s Perfect • BBC 4 Arts
Reef TV London 1X59m Sept 2016
Photographer Rankin and artist Alison Lapper explore issues behind our
perception of beauty and the Ideal Body with survivors of appearance-changing
trauma.
Producer/Director
Joanna Lumley in search of Elvis Presley: The King and I • ITV Documentaries
Sony Music, London 1X47m Nov 2015
Joanna Lumley goes to Dixie in pursuit of the young Elvis Presley. His face
decorated her teenage bedroom walls, and his music, then, as now, filled her
with desire. London, Tupelo, Memphis. DoP Jaimie Gramston
Producer/Director
Handmade • BBC4 Docs
3X30 March 15
3 film essays spearheading channel controller’s move into Slow TV – lovingly
photographed creation, by hand, of beautiful objects. DoP Andrew Muggleton.
In Top 5 rating BBC shows of 2015
Finalist BAFTA CRAFT Best photography
Winner RTS, Best Arts series 2016
RTS Scotland Best Arts series
Guild of Cameramen: Gold Award
Shortlisted – 2016 Grierson Awards, Best Arts series.
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What do Artists do all Day? • BBC 4 Arts Glasgow
1X30m Autumn 2014
Michael Landy RA takes his Art Bin concept – in which artists are encouraged to
throw their work away – to the Yokohama Triennale.
Producer/Director
Perspectives: Bruce Forsyth on Sammy Davis Jnr • ITV Documentaries
Rain Media 1X48 Summer 2014
The story of america’s finest hoofer, told by our greatest trouper. The film his
close friend tried to make for two decades with the BBC. Beverly Hills, Las
Vegas, Shaftesbury Avenue.
Producer/Director
Pride and Prejudice - Having a Ball • BBC2
Optomen 1X90 minutes April 2013
Ninety minute forensic examination of the engine of Austen’s masterpiece – the
ball. Cast of forty, crew of fifty, three hundred candles.
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Director
Narnia’s Lost Poet: The Secret Lives and Loves of CS Lewis • BBC 4 Arts
WhatLarks 1X59m TX Autumn 2013
A second outing with writer and Lewis biographer AN Wilson, examining the
complex personality, academic genius and Christian devotion of author. Oxford,
Cambridge, Belfast. Commissioning Ed Greg Sanderson.
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Producer/Director
Beautiful Objects: China in Six Easy Pieces • BBC 4 Arts
Blast! Films 1X59m TX Summer 2013.
Lars Tharp travels to the Celestial Empire to tell the story of six ceramic
masterpieces from the Percival David Collection, the most popular exhibit at the
British Museum – and thereby attempt to decode 5,000 years of Chinese
aesthetics. Easy. Shooting on HDXCam DoP Colin Fox.
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Producer/Director
Snapped: A short film for National Portrait Gallery exhibition
Brilliant Productions 1x7m
Short film documenting All Walks Beyond the Catwalk, a fashion industry
initiative to inspire new attitudes amongst emerging design talent.
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Treasures of Chinese Porcelain • BBC 4 Arts
Blast films 1X59m TX Oct 2011
Sport
Series Director
Football Diaries • BBC2
Seek Ltd 6X50m x 5 May-June 2004
Observational documentary series over five episodes recording a season in the
life of English football.
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Director
The David Beckham Story • ITV Network Centre
Seek Ltd 1X50m TX Nov 2000
Total access observational biopic of athlete, father, husband, star.
Specialist Factual
Producer/Director
Anne: The Princess Royal at 70 • ITV 1
Oxford Film and TV London 1X90 July 2020
Access-led biography with extensive archive and testimony by family members.
Self-shooting / DoPs Andrew Muggleton and Rob Goldie.
Producer/Director
US Drugs project (proposal and pilot) • BBC Documentaries
BBC Studios for NatGeo 6XUS hour
Full pitch deck delivery with six scripts in 20 days, for landmark six-part, multi-
million-dollar series with Hollywood talent presenting.
Producer/Director
It Takes a Thief to Catch a Thief • C5 Fact Ent
Optomen 1X58m TX March 2014
Nov 2013 One of six films for this formatted observational series featuring a
Detective and a former thief advising retailers on ways to hold back the tide. Big
ambitions, small team, micro budget. Comm Ed Ben Frow, Executive Producer
the renowned Becky Clarke.
Series Director
Tool Stories • C4 Continuing Education
Ideal World Productions 6X30m TX Summer 97
London. Spring/Summer 97 . Observational series following the misadventures
of six DIY fanatics. Cruel but slightly informative.
Producer/Director
Coppers: The Dogs are the Cavalry • C4
Blast films 1X48m TX Feb 2012
Shooting with Nottinghamshire Police for the second of this ground-breaking
and BAFTA-nominated observational documentary series.
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Supervising Producer
Benefits Britain 1949 • C4 History
2020 3X47m TX August 2013
Brought in to help Series Director and Editor deliver this complex soft-
format reality/observational series in which modern claimants try to survive
under the rules of the original Welfare State: Tears, tantrums and revelations.
Execing, scripting, cut and wrote last episode from sync-pull in ten days.
Executive Producer Stef Wagstaffe, Commissioning Editors John Hay and Julia
Harrington.
Producer/Director
Pilots • BBC2 Documentary Dept
Various
Oxford Films (ITV)
The Garden Productions (C4)
Avalon (BBC 4)
(BBC 2 Documentary Dept) for The Garden Productions, ITN Factual and BBC
Current Affairs This World, June-July 2013, and Keo Films Oct. Tasters for five
observational series – two medical, one aristocratic, one for This World, at the
Copacabana Palace Hotel, Rio de Janeiro and the fourth at Liverpool One
Shopping Experience. One with DoP, three self-shooting on HDX, one as Edit
Producer/Director
Manufacture (US Esquire) • Norton and Sons online
Freelance 8X10min TX autumn 2010
Round-Britain road trip investigating the state of artisanal manufacturing in the
British menswear.
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Rich Man, Poor Man Episode 2: Ben Dover • BBC 4/2 docs
Bellwether Media 1X59m x 3 TX winter/spring 2009
Porn Baron Lindsay Honey tries to rediscover the actor he wanted to be, before
the sex industry got him. Further two films on entrepreneur John Madejski and
Swiss aristocrat and master auctioneer Simone de Pury, on Vimeo.
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Writer/Series Director/Camera
Savile Row • BBC4/2 docs
Bellwether Media 3X59m Autumn 2008
Classic authored observational doc series shot inside the street that produces the
world’s greatest tailored garments.
Episode 1: Love Thy Neighbour Episode 2: Foreign Affairs Episode 3: New
Blood on Vimeo.
Director
Small Railway Journeys • C4 Daytime
Seek Ltd 5X14m Dec 2005
Five gem-like authored essays by Guardian journalist Jonathan Glancey
Series Director
Deep Toscana • NHK Tokyo
Talent TV 3X20m Autumn 2004.
Life on the inside of a remote Tuscan community – three stories of love, drama
and conflict.
Director
Face It: Bobbi Brown - Pilot • Discovery USA)
Pacific TV 1X30m June 2004
Fast-lane Manhattan lifestyle/Makeover show at home and at work with
America’s favourite slap guru.
Series Director
Close Up • Sky One
Seek Ltd for SFX London 4X50 mins 2003
Intimate observational portraits of leading footballers. This included a second
documentary on David Beckham (see also the David Beckham Story). Sky’s
highest-rating documentary series to date.
Series Director
Confidence Lab • BBC2
Kudos Productions 6X50m Autumn 2000.
Shooting two of 6X50min films about a group of people who cannot assert
themselves and the remedial steps taken by a crack team of psychologists.
Director
Modern Times - The Living Room • BBC2 Doc. Features
Soul Purpose 1x50m March 99
Long term project involving deep penetration of an exclusive
housing development, centred on the Show home. Builders, developers, residents,
victims.
Producer/Director
Tour Story - Spice girls in America • C4 Docs
Starfield Productions 1X90m June 98
Serious observational tour documentary following four women on the last leg of
their world jaunt. Sellouts and schisms, World Cup shocks and pregnancies.
Producer/Director
Liverpool Women’s Hospital • C5
Bazal 1X20m May 98
Liverpool Women’s Hospital. (C5 Docs) Bazal, London May 98 Successful pilot
for 60-part docu-soap set in maternity wing. 1X20m.
Director
Fair Winds, Deep Water • Discovery
OR Media 1X50m TX Winter 99
London, April – May 98 Documentary contrasting life for locals with that of
billionaire yacht owners during Antigua’s annual regatta.
Director
Spaceship Earth • NHK Tokyo
Talent TV
Producer/Director
For God’s Sake • C4 Religion
Starfield Productions 2 of 4X50min TX March 98.
London June 97 – Feb 98. Screenwriter (Eyes Wide Shut) and academic Frederic
Raphael’s quartet of global pilgrimages examining the history of man’s
relationships with Gods – and the fine mess that’s got us into.
Producer/Director
Remote Controllers • C4 Arts
Kudos Productions 1X50min TX Nov 97
London. Nov 97 documentary for C4 15th anniversary examining changes in
viewing habits since the channel was established.
Producer/Director
The Travel Show • BBC2 Ents
Manchester, Autumn 96 Films in France and India.
Director
A Woman Called Smith • BBC2 Doc. Features
Hawkshead Productions 6X30 Summer 96
I made 6 out of the 18 portraits of as many remarkable women with only a
surname in common. Much repeated as 18X10m.
Director
Without Walls: McCarthyism – the Bloody Trilogy • C4 Arts
Kudos Productions 3X30min
London. Spring 95. Bloody kids, Bloody students, Bloody Old People. Satirical
essays.
Director
People Today • BBC1
BBC Birmingham Autumn 91 – Summer 92. Terrifyingly understaffed live
network magazine that set a new low for Daytime. Shot strands on Opera and
Forbidden Sexuality.
Producer/Director
Travelog • C4 Features
Domaine Productions 30 mins 5 series over 3 years
Thirty-seven single essays and whole programmes for this wry travel series
Producer/Director
Heartlands • Yorkshire TV
Leeds, Summer 91. Religious/moral documentary series.
Director
Ipso Facto • BBC1
BBC Manchester, 2 series Documentary series for the teenage audience, newly
discovered by the BBC. Series one finalist Prix Italia and RTS awards. Series two,
BAFTA Best Children’s Factual Series 1991.
Director
Why Don’t You..? • BBC Children’s
BBC Manchester, Winter 89 Many films for this long-running oater produced by
Russell T Davies.
Documentary
Director
Miriam’s Big American Adventure • BBC 1 Documentaries
Wild Pictures 1X59m Autumn 2017
Directing third and final episode of the series, the Arkansas to New Orleans leg
of the actor’s trawl of opinions and attitudes post Trump in America’s heartland.
DoP Mark North.
Producer/Director
An Island Parish: Anguilla • BBC 2 Features
Tiger Aspect London 1X30m Nov 16
Joining the twelfth series of this evergreen observational show to produce three
episodes cataloguing community life in this Caribbean idyll.
Producer/Director
Gems TV (Family Jewels) • ITV Documentaries
Rare Day 1X43 Autumn 2014
Long-term observational study of cable phenomenon -Gems TV, a family run
blend of comedy, and geological information – and a home shopping sensation
worth £100m a year.
Producer/Director
Tebay Services Pilot • C4 Features
Keo Films 1X10m
Taster shot at the only family-owned motorway services in the UK, M6 jct 38. A
trove of incredible characters, 24/7
Writer/Series director/camera
Perfume Episode 3: The Smell of the Future • BBC 4 docs
The Garden Productions 1X59m TX winter/spring 2011
Intimate access to international fragrance industry. Chemistry, sensuality,
technicality, dreams and sub-surface desires..
Writer/Series director/camera
Perfume Episode 2: Bottling the Memory • BBC 4 docs
The Garden Productions 1X59m TX winter/spring 2011
Intimate access to international fragrance industry. Chemistry, sensuality,
technicality, dreams and sub-surface desires…
Writer/Series director/camera
Perfume Episode 1: Something Old, Something New • BBC 4 docs
The Garden Productions 1X59m x 3 TX winter/spring 2011
Intimate access to international fragrance industry. Chemistry, sensuality,
technicality, dreams and sub-surface desires…
Watch launch programme: Something Old, Something New, here.
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Writer/camera/VO
Rich Man, Poor Man Episode 3: The Man with the Golden Gavel • BBC4 docs
Bellwether Media 1X59m TX Nov 2008 - Nov 2009
Belated third film in series follows desperate attempts of Simone de Pury, Swiss
aristocrat and master auctioneer, to keep his auction house as the boom art
market goes bust . Shot in London and New York. TX winter 2009. Z1
Producer/Series Director/Writer/Camera
Rich Man, Poor Man Episode 1: A Knights Tale • BBC 4/2 docs
Bellwether Media 2x59 TX Spring 2009
Entrepreneur John Madejski wrestles with identity crisis.
Writer/Series Director/Camera/VO
Tweed: Episode 3 Hanging by a Thread • BBC4 Docs
Bellwether Media 3X59m Autumn 2009
Gritty tale of tortured power-battle within the Harris tweed industry.
BBC sponsored submissions for BAFTA and Grierson Best factual Series Award.
Writer/Series director/camera/VO
Tweed • BBC4 Docs
Bellwether Media 3X59m x 3 Summer 2009
Three part series. Gritty tale of tortured power-battle within the Harris tweed
industry.BBC sponsored submissions for BAFTA and Grierson Best factual
Series Award.
Episode 1 Trouble Looms featured. See Episode 2: Harassed Tweed. Episode
3: Hanging by a Thread on Vimeo.
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Tweed: Episode 2 Harassed Tweed • BBC 4 docs
Bellwether Media 3 x 59m Winter 2008 - Summer 2009
Gritty tale of tortured power-battle within the Harris tweed industry. Crofters,
weavers, mill-owners and vicars. Islanders take veiled suggestion that they
might be slightly behind-the-times very personally, with resultant battle fought
out in Stornoway Gazette. Shooting London, Paris New York, Tokyo and Harris.
TX Autumn 2009. Z1.. “Justifies the licence fee” (Tom Sutcliffe, Independent)
No 4 in Independent’s 2009 TV Top Ten.
BBC sponsored submissions for BAFTA and Grierson Best factual Series Award.
Food
Producer/Director
A Cook Abroad • BBC 2 Factual Entertainment
BBC 2 Bristol 1X59m March 15
Last in glossy series of travelogues by TV chefs bent on investigating both their
inner psyches and culinary roots. Rick Stein travels to Tasmania.
Producer/Director
The Hairy Dieters • BBC 2
Optomen 4 x 59 mins Autumn 2012
The hirsute duo at their most vulnerable, attempting to make less of themselves
by embarking on a big emotional journey.
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Producer/Director
Two Greedy Italians • BBC 2
Fresh One Productions 4 x 59 mins Sept-Nov 2011
Antonio Carluccio and Gennaro Contaldo travel to four provinces of their
homeland to eat, cook and grouse.
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Science
Director
Contraception short • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Freud Communications 1X.6 June 2017
Short drama highlighting problems faced by women attempting to plan families
in Third World, for International conference. DoP Ben Turley
Producer/Director
Extraordinary People: Half Woman, Whole Life • C5 docs/Discovery USA
Bellwether Media 1X 48m TX Winter 06
The remarkable life of a mother, racing driver and US heroine with a skateboard
instead of legs.
Producer/Director
Death By Sex • C4 Docs
Seek Ltd 1X50m Winter 2005
Gritty observational doc about the world of extreme bondage.
Comedy
Producer/Director/writer
Madness of Modern Parenting • BB2 Specialist Factual
Maverick TV 6X30m Dec 05 - June 06
Frank confession and scripted interludes.
Director
Rabbit Fever • UK theatrical release, DVD
Caught in the Headlights Productions Summer 2006
Low-budget comedy feature. The rise and rise of the world’s most popular sex
toy given Mocumentary treatment.
Director
Roadrunner • BBC Comedy
Back Row 1X10m Feb 2001
Pilot for new comedy about bicycle couriers, starring Michael Smiley and Jason
Donovan.
Director
Comedy Lab, The Scunthorpe Run • C4 Entertainment
Chrysalis Television 1X30m Autumn 2000
Surreal remake of the 70s classic Cannonball Run, set in Scunthorpe. Written by
and starring Edinburgh enfant terrible Jon Reed, with Frank Watson, Tony
Peers, David Hoyle and Leo Sayer.
Director
Ah So Graham Norton • C4 Entertainment
United Productions 1x50m Autumn 2000.
Director
The Junkies • Online
Seek Ltd 1X30m September 1999
Sitcom pilot about a trio of heroin addicts living in a high-rise flat.The first
comedy to premier on the net. One million hits in first month.
Director
Red Velvet • C4 Entertainment
United Pictures, Bristol 1X30m. Spring 1999
Successful pilot for this kitsch revue set in seedy nightclub with surreal overtones
and matching budget.
Director
Knubb of the Matter • C4 Continuing Education
Kudos Productions, London As part of C4 Sleep Night, Summer 97.
One-off comedy documentary written by and starring screenwriter Judy Pascoe
and Robert Lewellyn of Red Dwarf.
Corporate
Director
Montevetro • Richard Rogers Partnership
Richard Rogers Partnership 1X30
Dream commission for this leading architectural practice: to produce a film
prospectus for potential purchasers of apartments in a yet-to-be-built
architectural landmark, making the surrounding district look like the Parisian
Left Bank. DoP Michael Farr.
Director
Moda – Stefanel • Higher and Higher
Higher and Higher 1X5
Glossy industrial piece publicising the latest work and technical innovations at
this Italian knitwear giant. Shot in Venice for Mario Testino’s production
company. DoP Andrew Muggleton
Director
Joanne Stoker commercial
Blast/Golden Section 30 seconds
The first spot for emerging design talent Joanne Stoker. Night shoot with Naomi
Shimada of Models 1. DoP Andrew Muggleton.
Exec Producer
Executive Producer
Tourettes Rewired • Discovery
Bellwether Media 1X50m Winter 2006.
Astonishing story of extreme touretics whose only resort is to innovative deep-
brain stimulation surgery, during which the patient is awake, with a 50% chance
of survival. Compelling, compassionate and shocking.
Executive Producer
Life of Brian • C4 Docs
Seek Ltd 1X50/DVD90m
Total access intimate chronicle of the reinvention of Westlife’s Brian McFadden
as solo artist, against the background of high-profile divorce.
Executive Producer
Wildwestlife • Choice/BBC2
Seek Ltd 1X50m Autumn 2001.
Very intimate warts-and-all tour film.