Single Films

SCIENCE AND HISTORY

THE TAKING OF PRINCE HARRY  (Director / Writer / Producer)

Feature length counterfactual dramadoc. What would happen if Prince Harry returned to fight in Afghanistan and were captured by the Taliban?

Channel 4 / Juniper Communications

The taking of Prince Harry

SECRET DIARY OF THE HOLOCAUST  (Co-Exec Producer / Writer / Director)

Documentary following the journey of the half-sister of a teenager murdered at Auschwitz. She travels to Poland to find out more about the girl she never knew- who kept a diary & has been dubbed the ‘Polish Anne Frank’

BBC One / Darlow Smithson Productions / IMG Media

Secret diary of the holocaust

PORN ON THE BRAIN (Director/Producer)

1 x 1hr Documentary presented by former Loaded editor Martin Daubney examining the effects of online pornography on teenagers. Including the first ever study to perform fMRI scans on the brains of compulsive users. Lead film in Channel 4’s Real Sex season, autumn 2013.

Blink Films / Channel 4

Porn on the brain Porn on the brain

WE BUILT THIS CITY – NEW YORK  (Director / Writer / Producer)

The visionary feats of engineering which turned Manhattan from marsh to metropolis. For a landmark 3 x 1 hr series shot on High Definition, featuring high-end CGI, and reconstructions.

Discovery Channel US / HD Theater / FIVE / Darlow Smithson Productions

 

SECRETS OF THE DEAD – THE JAMESTOWN MASSACRE  (Director / Writer / Producer)

A scientific and historical investigation into the extremely high death rate at the first permanent English colony in America

C4 / WNET / Optomen TV

CANNIBAL – MAN MEAT  (Director / Writer / Producer)

Cannibalism in recent history – from modern day Russia, to the Andes air crash; from the Siege of Leningrad to class war in Mao’s China

C4 / Discovery TLC / 3bm

 

EQUINOX SPECIAL: SECRETS OF THE PSYCHICS  (Director / Writer / Producer)

A sceptical history of psychic phenomena from Spiritualism to spoon bending with period reconstructions

C4 / Discovery TLC / Open Media

 

THE DEEP: TOUCHDOWN  (Director / Writer / Producer)

The secret Cold War battle for control of the oceans by developing deep-submergence technology

C4 / Discovery TLC / Oxford Television Company

 

EQUINOX: THE MIRACLE POLICE  (Director / Writer / Producer)

How the Vatican tries to use science in authenticating the miracles needed to create Catholic saints

C4 / Discovery TLC / Ideal World Productions

TRAIL OF GUILT – THE ACID HOUSE  (Director / Writer / Producer)

Fully dramatised reconstruction of forensic scientists’ work to crack an LSD manufacturing gang in a remote Herefordshire farmhouse

BBC One

J’ACCUSE: THE SUPERCHEFS 

Paul Bailey’s polemic on the cult of the star chef – with Marcello Magni playing the Superchef in dramatised comedy-sketch inserts

C4 / Fulmar TV

ARTS

 

HOWARD GOODALL’S BIG BANGS – THE PIANO (Producer / Director)

                The invention of the most influential of instruments, and its effect on the history of music

C4 / NVC Arts / Tiger Aspect Productions

BAFTA Award – Best Specialised Series (Huw Weldon award) 2001; Peabody award for Journalism and Mass Communication 2001; Nominated for International Emmy, RTS and other awards.

Howard Goodall’s Big Bangs - The Piano

YOUNG ELVIS IN COLOUR  (Director / Writer / Producer)

1 hr unauthorised biography with rare colour footage. Highest Rating & Share in 9 pm slot

ITV / Darlow Smithson Productions

 

THE BEATLES: ALL YOU NEED IS CASH   (Director / Writer / Producer)

Unauthorised musical and business history of The Beatles with look-alike reconstructions

C4 / Fulcrum Productions

 

MY NIGHT WITH HANDEL (Director / Writer / Producer)

Dramatised scenes from Handel’s operas, showing off some of his finest arias, specially recorded & filmed in modern settings through a night in London

USA Cable ACE Award nominee 1996 – Best Performing Arts Programme. BANFF nominee 1997

C4 / Euphoria Films / NVC Arts

PLUNDER (Series Producer / Director)

3 x 30 mins – Cultural history & significance of the BUST OF NEFERTITI, PERGAMON ALTAR & VENUS DE MILO presented by Nicholas Ward-Jackson

C4 / Brian Lapping Assocs.

 

ARENA: REVOLUTIONARY WITH A PAINT BOX  (Director / Producer)

1 hr Profile of the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera);

 

ARENA RADIO NIGHT: TUNING IN; ARENA FOOD NIGHT: FASTING AND ABSTINENCE (Director / Producer)

(Glenfiddich Award)

BBC Two

 

OMNIBUS: PAUL SIMON

Profile of the legendary singer-song-writer filmed at his home in Montauk, Long Island, in the neighbourhood he grew up in with Art Garfunkel and in his office – a whole floor of the Brill Building in New York City.

BBC One

OMNIBUS: JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER (Director / Producer)

Drama-doc about the controversial                 painter

BBC One

 

ARTISTS’ JOURNEYS: JIM DINE ON EDVARD MUNCH (Director / Producer)

 

HOMELANDS: NIGERIA: CHINUA ACHEBE  (Director / Writer / Producer)

One of Africa’s foremost writers. Novel excerpts performed by local actors on location in Nigeria

PERFORMANCE

 

4 GOES TO GLYNDEBOURNE  (Live Presentation Producer)

1994 – 1996 Marriage of Figaro, Eugene Onegin, Ermione (RTS nomination), Don Giovanni, The Makropulos Case, Lulu, Theodora (BANFF 1997 Best Performance Special) 1999 Peléas et Melisande

C4 / NVC Arts (Presentation Producer / Director)

 

VERDI’S REQUIEM with Luciano Pavarotti  (Presentation Producer)

Performance at the Royal Festival

C4 / NVC Arts

 

ARRIVIDERCI BRUM: (Presentation Producer)

Simon Rattle conducts his Birmingham Symphony Orchestra farewell concert

C4 / NVC Arts