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AWARDS
2021 Finalist, New York Festival TV and Film Awards – Unearthed, Discovery Science
2014 Winner Grierson Award – The Iraq War: Regime Change, BBC2
2004 BAFTA nominated – MacIntyre’s Millions, Channel 5
1999 Winner Golden Gate Silver Spire and nominated for RTS Best Documentary Series – The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs, BBC2
1994 Winner BMA Best Medical Programme – Hypotheticals: Kill or Cure, BBC2
SERIES PRODUCER (selected credits)
Saudi Arabia’s Hidden Secrets (w/t)
Uncovering the secrets of the Kingdom’s astonishing archaeological treasures, revealed for the first time
Nine x 60 minutes
OR Media TX: early 2023
Unearthed
CGI-based series that investigates new evidence revealing the myths and mysteries behind ancient civilisations and the iconic megastructures they built.
Ten x sixty minutes.
Windfall Films for Discovery Science. TX: early 2020
Supertruckers
A series that follows the adventures of heavy haulage company Metcalfe Farms, as they move impossible loads the length and breadth of the UK and Europe.
Eight x sixty minutes
Lion TV for Discovery Quest. TX:mid-2017
Driving Wild
Former Formula 1 mechanic Marc ‘Elvis’ Priestley goes back to basics, immersing himself in six extraordinary motorsport cultures around the world – combining his F1 know-how with grassroots mechanics, building vehicles to face a high-octane, high-pressure driving challenge.
Six x sixty minutes
Dragonfly for Discovery Networks International. TX: March 2016
Mubarak’s Egypt: The Struggle for Succession
Series produced and directed two films on how the US government pushed Hosni Mubarak to reform Egypt – and as revolution erupted, helped kick him out
Two x sixty minutes
OR Media for al-Arabiya and BBC World. TX: June 2014
Ultimate Cops
Ob doc series following the toughest cops in Europe – the elite crime-busting units of the Polish, Romanian and Russian police forces.
Six x sixty minutes
Atom Productions for Discovery CEEMEA. TX: Autumn 2012
Murder in Beirut
Three shows on the killing of Lebanese leader Rafik Hariri – a murder that led to the establishment of a UN Tribunal in The Hague.
Three x sixty minutes
OR Media for BBC World and others. TX: mid-2010
Ways to Save the Planet
Series examining how geo-engineering can beat global warming.
Nine x sixty minutes
Impossible Pictures for Discovery US. TX: August 2008
Born Survivor: Bear Grylls
The first Bear Grylls series, as Bear has to survive and escape from some of the harshest environments in the world.
Eight/Thirteen x sixty minutes
Diverse Bristol for Channel 4 and Discovery US. TX: March 2007
Inside the Mafia
The bloodcurdling history of the Mafia in Sicily and the United States.
Four x sixty minutes
Wall to Wall for Channel Five and Nat Geo TX: July 2005
MacIntyre’s Millions
Undercover reporter Donal MacIntyre poses as a top-level gangster to infiltrate three international criminal gangs.
Three x sixty minutes
Shine for Channel Five. TX: December 2003
PRODUCER DIRECTOR (selected credits)
Mandate to Murder
In 1947 a sixteen-year-old Jewish boy was kidnapped from the streets of Jerusalem by a British undercover police unit and never seen again. The subsequent cover-up fatally undermined British rule in Palestine.
One x sixty minutes
Towton Productions for Kan 11, Israel TX: January 2022
Unearthed: Lost World of the Desert Kings
Cutting edge CGI and on-site investigations reveal a desert city in Iraq that was once the capital of Islam’s greatest empire
One x sixty minutes
Windfall Productions for Discovery Science. TX: July 2021
Drain the Oceans: Gold Rush
Why do dozens of nineteenth-century ships lie buried under the streets of San Francisco and rivers of Yukon Territory, Canada? Cutting-edge CGI reveals their astonishing secrets – and what they tell us about the California and Klondike gold rushes.
One x sixty minutes
Mallinson Sadler for Nat Geo and Channel Five. TX: July 2019
Chris Hansen’s Killer Instinct
Made two programmes in a six-part series looking at murders that shocked America, presented by veteran US reporter Chris Hansen.
Two x sixty minutes
ITN Productions for Investigation Discovery. TX: August/September 2015
The Iraq War: Regime Change
Programme one in a major three-part series marking the tenth anniversary of the Iraq War, including interviews with Dick Cheney, Colin Powell and Tony Blair – and five members of Saddam Hussein’s inner circle.
One x sixty minutes
Brook Lapping Productions for BBC2 and Nat Geo. TX: 29 May 2013
Iran’s Rebel Voices
The birth of Iran’s reform movement and its brutal suppression during the summer of 2009.
One x sixty minutes
OR Media for al-Arabiya. TX: 14 December 2010
Secret History: The War That Made the Nazis
How Germany’s experience of the First World War led to the rise of Hitler
Third Eye Media for Channel 4. TX: 14 December 2002
Secrets of the Dead: Sounds from the Stone Age
How Stone Age people designed monuments like Stonehenge with sound in mind.
RDF for Channel 4. TX: 12 November 2001
The Rise and Rise of Animal Rights
A film on the success of the Animal Liberation Front – and why we’re all guilty of providing an intellectual climate in which their ideas flourish.
RDF Bristol for Channel 4. TX: 21 January 2001
Ape-Man: Body
One film for this major six-part series on human evolution, tracing the search for the legendary ‘missing link’ in Africa and Asia.
BBC2/The Learning Channel. TX: 7 March 2000
The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs
Two films in a six-part series on the Middle East since 1948, including interviews with George Bush Senior, Ariel Sharon, King Hussein and the leaders of the PLO
Two x sixty minutes
Brook Lapping Productions for BBC2 and WGBH. TX: March/April 1998
EDIT PRODUCER (selected credits)
Unearthed: Egypt’s Strangest Pyramid
Cutting-edge CGI and on-site investigations reveal the secrets of the Pyramid of Lahun, that seems to float on water in the middle of the desert
One x sixty minutes
Windfall Productions for Discovery Science. TX: early 2021
Unearthed: Hunt for King Midas’s Golden City
Cutting edge CGI and on-site investigations asks the question: did the legendary King Midas really exist?
One x sixty minutes
Windfall Productions for Discovery Science. TX: December 2020
Unearthed: Inside Egypt’s Black Pyramid
Cutting-edge CGI and on-site investigations reveal the secrets of Pharaoh Amenemhet III, the ancient Egyptian ruler with two pyramids
One x sixty minutes
Windfall Productions for Discovery Science. TX: May 2020
Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy
Mysterious prophecies foretell the cataclysmic events of 73AD, when a Roman legion crushes Jewish rebellion at the Dead Sea fortress of Masada
One x ninety minutes
Windfall Productions for Discovery Science. TX: April 2020
Handsome Devils
Two films in a ten-part drama doc series about men who prey on vulnerable women
Two x sixty minutes
Britespark for Discovery ID and Shaw, Canada.TX: Autumn 2014
Richard Hammond’s Journey to the Centre of the Planet
Richard Hammond uses the latest CGI to journey to the centre of the earth
Two x sixty minutes for BBC1. TX mid-2011
Children of Britain
Documentary looking at the lives of children in modern-day Britain
One x sixty minutes
Mentorn for ITV1. TX: June 2011