Waking Slowly: A Journey Through Low Budget Film-Making
A mindful and psychologically searching documentary about acting, life, love, communication and connection, following a well-known actor trying to make his first film, with no money and a lot of heart. In Production
Secrets of the Brain, a BBC 2 Horizon series
A series on the evolution of the brain, featuring chimps, monkeys, crabs, babies, experiments, stunts and a lot of cutting-edge science. In Production
How to Make a Difference in Africa
A documentary made with a Ghanaian-based charity looking at their efforts to eradicate the spirit child phenomenon, rescue street kids and effect change in their own country. The film won a leading charity film award and raised £300,000 for the charity.
Secrets of Size: A two-part series for BBC Four
A science series on cosmology and nanoscience – exploring our universe on the teeniest and grandest of scales, including revealing the largest structure in existence which we are part of.
Alone: A Human Rights Story
A feature length documentary with the Belarus Free Theatre looking at how artists protest about human rights on the frontline in Belarus, Ukraine and Russia.
Incandescent: The Phoebus Cartel, a special documentary for BBC Radio 4
A historical, environmentally-aware investigation uncovering the story of the Phoebus Cartel, a shadowy organisation which invented the concept of planned obsolescence - a conspiracy theory which turns out to be true.
Serious About Comedy
A serious-ish documentary about theatre’s top comedy practitioners, following the work of leading theatre director Sean Foley, with Al Murray, David Mitchell, Adrian Lester, Bruce Robinson and Shazia Murzah.
East Prey: Inside the Child Sex Trade: CNN Presents, Cutting Edge for Channel 4, and ARTE (Europe)
A multi-award-winning investigation into child trafficking which received the highest ever worldwide viewing figures for a CNN Presents documentary, this won me the Polk Award for Journalism.
Eugenics: Science’s Greatest Scandal: A series for the BBC Four
With comedian, writer and disability activist Adam Pearson, revealing shocking truths about our scientific legacy – how leading scientific establishments tried to eliminate or remove the disabled and the poverty-stricken from society.
Ukraine’s Facebook Army: A film for Al Jazeera
Filming on the frontline of the war in Ukraine, following a brave female activist who crowd-funds for military supplies and delivers them every week to their embattled and desperate soldiers, risking her own life in the process.
Sisters: International Festival film
A feature documentary on freedom of expression for female singers in Iran who face censorship and persecution for their music.
Paths to Peace: The Stone Masons: A film for BBC World
A hybrid history/arts/human rights documentary with presenter Bettany Hughes, looking at the work of Syrian refugees aiming to rebuild their shattered country, broadcast on BBC World to record viewing figures
Torture in Tunis: People and Power, Al Jazeera
An investigation made with a brave female Tunisian journalist into allegations of police brutality and torture in Tunisia, meeting the victims of torture and doorstepping the politicians responsible.
India’s Best First Trans Model Agency
A feature length cinema documentary on the lives of transgender people in New Delhi, India. Producer and Editor
Tales of the Caspian Sea. A documentary series for Radio Three
A two-part series with Bettany Hughes, travelling across Azerbaijan exploring its archaeology, literature and culture.
The Force That Shapes Our Lives: A 90-minute special for the BBC
A 90-minute science special which asked a simple question: why does the apple fall from the tree? A journey into the bizarre space-time world of gravity which also reveals how you can lose weight simply by standing somewhere else.
Fighting FGM in Senegal
Rapper and human rights activist Sister Fa makes a vow to eradicate FGM in her own country of Senegal within three years, and makes a start in her village, a place where she was subjected to the practice as a child. This film follows her brave confrontation of vested interests and deep-seated cultural practices.
Behind The Rage: America’s Domestic Violence: a documentary special for ITV
A documentary asking how to reduce male domestic violence, featuring the perpetrators themselves, with access to feminist organisations who try to help them stop their violence. Executive producer, script and editor.
America’s War on Abortion: a documentary for ITV Exposure
An Emmy Award winning film made inside abortion clinics in the American south, who face bombs, assassination attempts and daily threats; also meeting the anti-abortion activists who carry out daily harassment of doctors and patients. Executive producer, script and editor.
Muslim in Trump’s America: a documentary for ITV Exposure
A Peabody Award winning film looking at the lives of Muslims in America, filmed during Covid and Black Lives Matter. Executive producer, script and editor.
Putting Culture Forward
A series of short films made in Birmingham during a time of cataclysmic cuts to arts organisations, looking at drama for deaf children, the work of black and Asian musicians from the city and the work of the Birmingham Rep in democratising theatre and widening its appeal
White Right: Meeting the Enemy: An ITV Exposure
A BAFTA-winning, Emmy-nominated documentary which looked at how to deradicalize the far right; a film which led to the collapse of the American Nazi Party from the inside. Executive producer, script and editor.
Rescuing Ex-Muslims: Leaving Islam: Vice News
A documentary on a former Muslim escaping Saudi Arabia and joining the refugee trail into Europe
A Very Theatrical Revolution: A special documentary for BBC Radio Four
A “Pick of the Week” documentary on Shakespeare’s Blackfriars Theatre, the first indoor theatre in the world, with Mark Rylance and Dominic Dromgoole
Jihad: A British Story: ITV Exposure
A BAFTA- and Grierson Award-nominated documentary on the roots and causes of the jihadi movement in the UK. Executive producer, script and editor.
Mechanical Monsters: A film for BBC Four
A film looking at the gigantic and innovative engineering projects of the 19th century, and how they changed the philosophy and culture of the world, with effects we are still dealing with today. With Professor Simon Schaffer
Banaz: An Honour Killing: An Exposure for ITV
An Emmy and Peabody Award winning film uncovering the true story of a young Kurdish woman in London, murdered by her own family because she loved the wrong man. Co-producer, co-director with Deeyah Khan for the TV version. As a feature doc, I had senior producer, editor and camera credits
To Be Or Not To Be: The Story of the World’s Most Famous Speech
A podcast series I created in lockdown, featuring leading stars in the world of Shakespeare, now being developed into a feature documentary.
Truth and Lies in Baghdad: Dispatches for Channel 4 (UK) and PBS (US)
An investigation of human rights abuses, totalitarian terror and murder filmed inside Saddam’s Iraq in the run-up to war, exposing the torture factor of Saddam’s psychopathic son, Uday.
Secrets of the Saudi State, Dispatches: Channel 4
An investigation into human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia and the country’s promotion of hardline Islamist theology at the time of the 2001 Twin Towers attack.
Bloody Foreigners: Dispatches. Channel 4
An investigation into the abuse and exploitation of asylum seekers and migrant workers in the UK
Prime Suspects, Dispatches, Channel 4
An RTS award-winning investigation into the massacre of Bosnian Muslims in one village in 1999, tracking down and interviewing five survivors and travelling into Serbia to name and identify alleged perpetrators. Field producer, Kosovo, Bosnia and Serbia.
A Guide to Life, the Universe and Everything
A two-part guide to the most important theories about our universe, from quantum physics, cosmology, thermodynamics, chaos theory to evolution.
2005 – 2011
During this period I made a number of award-winning domestic Dispatches films for Channel 4, including three documentaries on the rise of extremism in the UK - twice RTS-nominated – and films on child abuse in schools, neglect and profiteering in the child care industry, an investigation into slavery in the UK; a film on environmental policies; and two films on the British elections of 2005 and 2001
1995-1999
Assistant producer on Dispatches documentary on human rights abuses in Chechnya; three observational documentaries following the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry team; assistant producer on three investigative documentaries, on the exploitation of economic migrants by agricultural gang-masters in Britain, on the funeral industry and private children’s homes.
A mindful and psychologically searching documentary about acting, life, love, communication and connection, following a well-known actor trying to make his first film, with no money and a lot of heart. In Production
Secrets of the Brain, a BBC 2 Horizon series
A series on the evolution of the brain, featuring chimps, monkeys, crabs, babies, experiments, stunts and a lot of cutting-edge science. In Production
How to Make a Difference in Africa
A documentary made with a Ghanaian-based charity looking at their efforts to eradicate the spirit child phenomenon, rescue street kids and effect change in their own country. The film won a leading charity film award and raised £300,000 for the charity.
Secrets of Size: A two-part series for BBC Four
A science series on cosmology and nanoscience – exploring our universe on the teeniest and grandest of scales, including revealing the largest structure in existence which we are part of.
Alone: A Human Rights Story
A feature length documentary with the Belarus Free Theatre looking at how artists protest about human rights on the frontline in Belarus, Ukraine and Russia.
Incandescent: The Phoebus Cartel, a special documentary for BBC Radio 4
A historical, environmentally-aware investigation uncovering the story of the Phoebus Cartel, a shadowy organisation which invented the concept of planned obsolescence - a conspiracy theory which turns out to be true.
Serious About Comedy
A serious-ish documentary about theatre’s top comedy practitioners, following the work of leading theatre director Sean Foley, with Al Murray, David Mitchell, Adrian Lester, Bruce Robinson and Shazia Murzah.
East Prey: Inside the Child Sex Trade: CNN Presents, Cutting Edge for Channel 4, and ARTE (Europe)
A multi-award-winning investigation into child trafficking which received the highest ever worldwide viewing figures for a CNN Presents documentary, this won me the Polk Award for Journalism.
Eugenics: Science’s Greatest Scandal: A series for the BBC Four
With comedian, writer and disability activist Adam Pearson, revealing shocking truths about our scientific legacy – how leading scientific establishments tried to eliminate or remove the disabled and the poverty-stricken from society.
Ukraine’s Facebook Army: A film for Al Jazeera
Filming on the frontline of the war in Ukraine, following a brave female activist who crowd-funds for military supplies and delivers them every week to their embattled and desperate soldiers, risking her own life in the process.
Sisters: International Festival film
A feature documentary on freedom of expression for female singers in Iran who face censorship and persecution for their music.
Paths to Peace: The Stone Masons: A film for BBC World
A hybrid history/arts/human rights documentary with presenter Bettany Hughes, looking at the work of Syrian refugees aiming to rebuild their shattered country, broadcast on BBC World to record viewing figures
Torture in Tunis: People and Power, Al Jazeera
An investigation made with a brave female Tunisian journalist into allegations of police brutality and torture in Tunisia, meeting the victims of torture and doorstepping the politicians responsible.
India’s Best First Trans Model Agency
A feature length cinema documentary on the lives of transgender people in New Delhi, India. Producer and Editor
Tales of the Caspian Sea. A documentary series for Radio Three
A two-part series with Bettany Hughes, travelling across Azerbaijan exploring its archaeology, literature and culture.
The Force That Shapes Our Lives: A 90-minute special for the BBC
A 90-minute science special which asked a simple question: why does the apple fall from the tree? A journey into the bizarre space-time world of gravity which also reveals how you can lose weight simply by standing somewhere else.
Fighting FGM in Senegal
Rapper and human rights activist Sister Fa makes a vow to eradicate FGM in her own country of Senegal within three years, and makes a start in her village, a place where she was subjected to the practice as a child. This film follows her brave confrontation of vested interests and deep-seated cultural practices.
Behind The Rage: America’s Domestic Violence: a documentary special for ITV
A documentary asking how to reduce male domestic violence, featuring the perpetrators themselves, with access to feminist organisations who try to help them stop their violence. Executive producer, script and editor.
America’s War on Abortion: a documentary for ITV Exposure
An Emmy Award winning film made inside abortion clinics in the American south, who face bombs, assassination attempts and daily threats; also meeting the anti-abortion activists who carry out daily harassment of doctors and patients. Executive producer, script and editor.
Muslim in Trump’s America: a documentary for ITV Exposure
A Peabody Award winning film looking at the lives of Muslims in America, filmed during Covid and Black Lives Matter. Executive producer, script and editor.
Putting Culture Forward
A series of short films made in Birmingham during a time of cataclysmic cuts to arts organisations, looking at drama for deaf children, the work of black and Asian musicians from the city and the work of the Birmingham Rep in democratising theatre and widening its appeal
White Right: Meeting the Enemy: An ITV Exposure
A BAFTA-winning, Emmy-nominated documentary which looked at how to deradicalize the far right; a film which led to the collapse of the American Nazi Party from the inside. Executive producer, script and editor.
Rescuing Ex-Muslims: Leaving Islam: Vice News
A documentary on a former Muslim escaping Saudi Arabia and joining the refugee trail into Europe
A Very Theatrical Revolution: A special documentary for BBC Radio Four
A “Pick of the Week” documentary on Shakespeare’s Blackfriars Theatre, the first indoor theatre in the world, with Mark Rylance and Dominic Dromgoole
Jihad: A British Story: ITV Exposure
A BAFTA- and Grierson Award-nominated documentary on the roots and causes of the jihadi movement in the UK. Executive producer, script and editor.
Mechanical Monsters: A film for BBC Four
A film looking at the gigantic and innovative engineering projects of the 19th century, and how they changed the philosophy and culture of the world, with effects we are still dealing with today. With Professor Simon Schaffer
Banaz: An Honour Killing: An Exposure for ITV
An Emmy and Peabody Award winning film uncovering the true story of a young Kurdish woman in London, murdered by her own family because she loved the wrong man. Co-producer, co-director with Deeyah Khan for the TV version. As a feature doc, I had senior producer, editor and camera credits
To Be Or Not To Be: The Story of the World’s Most Famous Speech
A podcast series I created in lockdown, featuring leading stars in the world of Shakespeare, now being developed into a feature documentary.
Truth and Lies in Baghdad: Dispatches for Channel 4 (UK) and PBS (US)
An investigation of human rights abuses, totalitarian terror and murder filmed inside Saddam’s Iraq in the run-up to war, exposing the torture factor of Saddam’s psychopathic son, Uday.
Secrets of the Saudi State, Dispatches: Channel 4
An investigation into human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia and the country’s promotion of hardline Islamist theology at the time of the 2001 Twin Towers attack.
Bloody Foreigners: Dispatches. Channel 4
An investigation into the abuse and exploitation of asylum seekers and migrant workers in the UK
Prime Suspects, Dispatches, Channel 4
An RTS award-winning investigation into the massacre of Bosnian Muslims in one village in 1999, tracking down and interviewing five survivors and travelling into Serbia to name and identify alleged perpetrators. Field producer, Kosovo, Bosnia and Serbia.
A Guide to Life, the Universe and Everything
A two-part guide to the most important theories about our universe, from quantum physics, cosmology, thermodynamics, chaos theory to evolution.
2005 – 2011
During this period I made a number of award-winning domestic Dispatches films for Channel 4, including three documentaries on the rise of extremism in the UK - twice RTS-nominated – and films on child abuse in schools, neglect and profiteering in the child care industry, an investigation into slavery in the UK; a film on environmental policies; and two films on the British elections of 2005 and 2001
1995-1999
Assistant producer on Dispatches documentary on human rights abuses in Chechnya; three observational documentaries following the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry team; assistant producer on three investigative documentaries, on the exploitation of economic migrants by agricultural gang-masters in Britain, on the funeral industry and private children’s homes.
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