Director

I have a solid track record in directing riveting and groundbreaking television. My programmes catch their audience and don't let go.
Who wouldn't be gripped as former President Mikhail Gorbachev tells how his Grandfather was tortured by Stalin's military police?
Who wouldn't be caught as scientists hunt down and finally hold actual slices of Albert Einstein's brain? And, no one switches over as a nerve gas victim describes exactly how it feels to step into a gas chamber?
As well as unique access, my programmes have visual imagination and strong narrative.

I am highly adaptable moving easily from powerful politics with Mikhail Gorbachev to off-beat humour with Paul Merton.

TIMESHIFT – BBC4
2 x 60 tx May 2006 and tx 2007
Exec Producer – Michael Poole

First Rites- An irreverent view of our changing rites of passage with Michael Rosen, Katharine Whitehorn and Claire Rayner.

Machine Men – The roller coaster history of the greatest robots in fact and fiction with Anthony Daniels, Brian Aldiss and Quentin Cooper.

PAUL MERTON’S SILENT CLOWNS – BBC2/4

2 x 60
Buster Keaton 25th May 2006
– THE MOST POPULAR FACTUAL PROGRAMME EVER ON BBC4

Charlie Chaplin 1st June 2006
Exec Producer – Michael Poole

I directed these two high-profile programmes in a series of four with comedian Paul Merton exploring his passion for Silent Comedy.
The films are a mixture of re-enactment, sketches and interviews with prominent people such as Marcel Marceau and Terry Jones.

As a backbone to the series I have directed two as-live three camera shows with Paul presenting a master class to an audience of 250 people.

BIG IDEAS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD - Mentorn for Five
1 x 45 tx 31st May 2005
I directed this unique programme for FIVE with former President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev presenting his own authored history of communism.
In a revealing series of interviews, shot at the Gorbachev Foundation in Moscow, President Gorbachev combines both the rise and fall of communism and his own incredible family story. He gave us a gripping minute-by-minute account of the 1991 coup and how he feared for his life.

The programme was very well received and was dramatic enough to warrant its own news article.

The Observer. http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1456182,00.html

The Riddle of Einstein's Brain - - Icon Films for Channel 4 and National Geographic
Two scientists set out to hunt down the scientific relic of the 20th century - Albert Einstein's brain. Can the remains of Einstein's brain give up secrets to his genius? A wild road-movie, a battle of brain science and a bizarre detective story Presented by Dr Mark Lythgoe and Dr Jim Al-Khalili 50 minutes

DIAGNOSING DARWIN - Icon Films for National Geographic
Hunting the cause of Charles Darwin's terrible 30-year illness by forensic testing of his organic remains over a century after his death. Presented by Dr Rob McCall 50 minutes Further information

SECRETS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM - BBC4
Un-told stories on astronomy narrated by Tom Baker

MOMENTS OF GENIUS - BBC4
Three presenter-led wild scientific tales 3 x 10 minutes

Assistant Producer/Researcher

CONSTANT CRAVING - BBC2
The science of addiction. Producer Andrew Thompson

Winner of 2001 GlaxoSmithKline Science Writers' Award - Best Science Documentary Winner of 2001 US PRISM Award for drug awareness - Best TV Documentary

SCIENCE AT WAR - BBC2
Inside USA's military science Producer Ed Harriman

HORIZON - BBC2

	Sudden Death
	One man's spurious cot death theory let a woman get away with multiple murder. Winner of 1999 Royal Television Society Best Documentary Strand
	Gulf War Jigsaw
	The secrets behind Gulf War Illness
	Dawn of the Clone Age
	Exclusive access to the team that cloned Dolly the sheep Nominated for 1998 Glaxo-Welcome Science Writers' Award Best Science Documentary

NEWSNIGHT- BBC2
Six months work both live and pre-recorded

DISPATCHES - Channel 4
On her Majesty's Secret Service & Arming the Admirals Reporter Martyn Gregory Nominated for 1996 RTS Best Foreign Documentary