The first 90 minute feature doc from the BBC Natural History Unit tells the epic story of this world famous pride of lions in Kenya. Filmed in Kenya in 2021. With privileged access to 30 years of NHU archive. 
(Comm Ed Sreya Biswas) 

Director of Photography Brendan Easton
Composer Samuel Sim
Editors Ian Garvin and David G. Hill

Following on from Thatcher this is a five part exploration of Tony Blair and the New Labour project.
Interviews with all the key players, including Blair himself.  
(Comm Ed Simon Young)

March 2020 – May 2021 BBC Studios

Comedian Alex Brooker confronts aspects of his disability for the first time. With the help of his mum he sets out to come to terms with his physical disability and find out what its like to be disabled in the UK today.

Director of Photography Brendan Easton 
Editor Ian Garvin

Broadcast on BBC2 in May 2019, this film was part of a landmark series about Margaret Thatcher. In the words of her inner circle the film tells the dramatic story of her final two years in power.

Director of Photography Brendan Easton with Luke Menges
Editor Ian Garvin
Music Alexandra Harwood

When she retired from ballet Dame Darcey Bussell struggled with feelings of emptiness and depression. She realised that she needed dance in her life to be herself and to feel happy. In this very personal film Darcey explores the positive impact that dance has on mental health. From a group of troubled girls in Manchester experiencing anxiety and depression to a dementia seated dance class in Edinburgh and a cutting edge research project for Parkinson’s sufferers run by Dr Peter Lovatt Darcey hears the moving stories of people who use dance as therapy.

Director of Photography Brendan Easton
Editor Ian Garvin

Zoe Ball lost her partner, Billy, to suicide. In this personal and intimate film Zoe talks  about her grief and the impact of suicide on those left behind. Using the 2018 Comic Relief Challenge Zoe sets out to meet other families affected by suicide. Along her epic cycle journey from her birthplace in Blackpool back home to Brighton Zoe meets suicide prevention groups, families and survivors.

Directors of Photography Brendan Easton and Mike Carling
Editors Ian Garvin and Craig Nicholls

In 2010 I was asked by the BBC to make two documentaries over 18 months in Oxford, UK and Karachi, Pakistan. With intimate access to social workers the films follow Saira Khan and her husband Steve through the rigorous adoption process here in the UK. Saira then travels to Karachi to adopt an abandoned baby from the Edhi Orphanage.

Filming the baby being handed to Saira and following her during the long night spent in intensive care was traumatic, yet ultimately moving and uplifting.

Music Samuel Sim
Director of Photography Brendan Easton
Editor Paul Carlin

This Discovery Europe film was filmed in Moscow and tells the inside story of the Chechen attack on one of the city’s theatres. The tragic event ended in the death of at least 170 people when the Russian authorities stormed the theatre and used fatal doses of fentanyl gas to overcome the hostage takers.

Music Samuel Sim
Editor Gregor Lyon

Filmed over two years, this series was a personal passion and had a huge impact on the whole team not only as we were making it but in the months that followed the broadcast.

The four Channel 4 films document the lives of people who had fallen through the cracks in Blair’s Britain.

Stacey: Stacey was a prostitute, walking the same streets where Jack the Ripper sought his victims a century ago. We followed her over a year as she struggled to describe her heroin addiction through poetry. I watched the film with Stacey when it was first shown on Channel 4. A few months later I received an urgent call from her hostel and managed to arrive there a few minutes before she died of an overdose. I was proud to do a reading at her funeral and often think of her.

Petrolman: Evicted, Jill and Steve Bolton lived in a car when we met them and were struggling to stay in touch with their young son and beat their crack addiction.

The Magical World of Susie Wardrobe: Filmed against the backdrop of Blair's 2001 Labour victory this film tells the story of a single mother’s struggle to survive on a Gateshead housing estate as she gets deeper into debt with loan sharks. After the film was shown viewers sent in donations which paid off her debts twice over.

After the Fall: The story of alcoholic Steve Longstaff and his family who live in Ashington, which was once the largest mining town in the world. Steven comes from a mining family but as we watch the seasons pass there seems to be little future in an area devastated by the closure of the mines and the 1984 strike.

Director of Photography Petra Graf
Editor Gregor Lyon
Executive Producer Tom Roberts
Producer Steve Grogan
AP David Clews

Filmed over two years in London, Nottingham and Brighton this hard-hitting series made a legal precedent when Nottingham Social Services tried to prevent us telling the true story of runaways on the streets of their city.
With the support of David Lloyd and the team at Channel 4 legal department we won the battle to allow Staying Lost to be transmitted.

Filming the series took over the lives of the whole team and although some of the people we filmed have died or disappeared I keep in touch with many of them today in and outside prison.

Shortlisted for Grierson Best Documentary Series
Winner of the Indie Award for Best Current Affairs series
Nominated BBC2 Creativity Award
Nominated RTS Best Editing Award
 
Series Director Tom Roberts
Director of Photography Petra Graf
Editor Paul Carlin

Series directing this six part series in-house for BBC2 included both observational and rigged filming. But it was the interviews I was lucky enough to carry out with children throughout the country which supplied the glue for this ambitious series.

Director of Photography for interview set up: Luke Menges

After graduating from Goldsmiths' University in Drama and English I ran a theatre company with German director and writer Marc von Henning. The company hosted Heiner Muller and successfully premiered some of his work here at the famous Soho Poly Theatre and at the Lyceum in Edinburgh. Three years later I moved into television and social history. 

Over the next 8 years I helped set up Testimony Films in Bristol and worked with the company on several award winning and influential social history series and tie in books. Documenting the reality of life during the first half of the century the films told the true stories of taboo areas of Britain's past.

A Labour of Love, Forbidden Britain, Out of Sight, A Man's World and The Call of the Sea are still widely used in social history teaching. Our extensive interviews are available through the National Sound Archive and the IWM.

During my work at Testimony I was lucky enough to interview the last survivors of the First World War. I also directed a hugely influential film on the experience of sexual abuse in Britain during the first half of the century. During the research for this extremely sensitive film I interviewed over 200 people and wrote an educational booklet for survivors of historical abuse and an accompanying DVD. Some of the interviews formed part of Forbidden Britain, the book and series.