Freelance Shooting PD and Development Exec with over 15 years experience creating factual television and digital content. Excellent writer, skilled at shaping story - scripts, decks and in the edit - able to handle and shape complex narratives.
I love development and production equally and have always done both.
Currently working on This Cultural Life: Mark Ronson for BBC iplayer/BBC World.
Next available 9 November 2025 and actively looking for work.
Producing / Directing / Edit Producing:
- Strong shooter on FS7 who has self-shot talking heads and interviews with big name talent on limited budgets.
- Experienced directing crews on location including actuality on fast turnaround projects
- Experienced edit producer used to handling large volumes of material very quickly.
- Specialist in shaping narrative around archive.
- Have shot actuality in schools for The One Show and in factories for Watchdog both BBC 1.
- Commissions on all BBC channels, C5, More 4 and Sky Docs and Sky Arts, so understand different audiences and tones across channels.
Recent PD credits:
- This Cultural Life with Mark Ronson, 1 x 30, BBC Studios for BBC iplayer / BBC 4/ BBC World, June 2025
Directing multi-camera set up, scripting and edit producing archive heavy profile in two weeks on this and the other This Cultural Life shows below.
- This Cultural Life with Rufus Wainwright (edit producer), 1 x 30, BBC Studios for BBC iplayer / BBC 4/ BBC World, May 2025
- This Cultural Life with Peter Kosminsky, 1 x 45, BBC Studios for BBC iplayer / BBC 4/ BBC World, November 2024
Extended 45 minite version of the show - complex editorial around Israel and Occupied Territories.
- This Cultural Life with Boy George, 1 x 30, BBC Studios for BBC iplayer / BBC 4/ BBC World, May 2024
Pick of the Day, The Observer, highest rating episode of the strand so far.
- This Cultural Life with Juliette Binoche, 1 x 30, BBC Studios for BBC iplayer / BBC 4/ BBC World, April 2024
- This Cultural Life with Whoopi Goldberg, 1 x 30, BBC Studios for BBC iplayer / BBC 4/ BBC World, December 2023
- Africa Turns the Page: The Novels That Shaped A Continent with David Olusoga, 1 x 60, 2021,
BBC4 /iplayer for Uplands TV
(Have also directed around 30 VTs on The Culture Show, Watchdog, BBC Ideas and Film Programme, many self shot)
Development
- Adept at a range of development – on all British channels, SVODs and streamers - from Sky Docs to BBC; Amazon international to Netflix: have worked on pure docs, specialist factual; pop factual streamer series and features; funny and provocative docs; true crime box sets; formats; consumer.
- Several years of production experience that informs my development.
- Ideas generator who is also strong on secondary dev.
- Experience running teams but work well on my own.
- I offer short term consultancy dev, finessing formats or restructuring / refreshing decks to nail story and format.
Selected recent commissions:
- Celebrity retrospective docs series, (NDA) 3 x 60, Sky Docs for Mindhouse Productions, May 2025
- Art Matters with Melvyn Bragg, 1 x 60, Oxford Films for Sky Arts, 2024
- Museum of Us with Tony Robinson, 4 x 60, More 4, for Uplands TV, 2022
- Our NHS A Hidden History with David Olusoga, BBC One, for Uplands TV, 2021
- Miss World 1970: Pretty Girls, Angry Women, 1x 60, BBC Two for BBC Studios, 2020
- Royals in their Own Words – Diana and The Queen, 2 x 60, Channel Five for Viacom, 2019
Other selected commissions:
- One Show History VTs for David Olusoga, BBC 1
- Watchdog, BBC 1
- The Secret Life of Sue Townsend, 1 x 60, BBC 2
- Britain's Most Disgusting Foods, 3 x 60, BBC 3
- The Art of Japanese Life with James Fox, 3 x 60, BBC 4
- Handmade in Japan, 3 x 30, BBC 4
- A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol, 1 x 60, BBC 4
- The Thirties in Colour, 3 x 60, BBC 4
- The Story of British Pathe, 3 x 60, BBC 4
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