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What We Do

Impact Docs Outstanding Achievement
The Battle to Beat Malaria

1 x 60' November 2023

The inside story of a game-changing vaccine 

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Official Selection BFF, NHdocs
Organ Stops

1 x 60' December 2022

Saving the King of Instruments

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The Real Spies Among Friends

1 x 60' Dec 2022

The story of the worst spy ring in British history

  

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Quentin Blake: The Drawing of My Life

1 x 60' Dec 2021

Celebrating one of Britain’s best-loved artists

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Joanna Lumley and the Human Swan

1 x 60' Nov 2021

A green flight around Britain in search of climate change solutions

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Orkney – Britain’s Green Islands

1 x 30' Nov 2021

Julia Bradbury & Alex Beresford find inspiration for a greener future

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Shortlisted for RTS & Broadcast Awards
Nominated for a WCSFP Buzzie Award
Horizon Special: The Vaccine

1 x 90' June 2021

The inside story of the global quest for a vaccine

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Impact Docs Outstanding Achievement
Race for the Vaccine

1 x 85' May 2021

Inside the mission to give the world a shot

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Dancing on Thin Ice with Torvill & Dean

1 x 90’ January 2021

A spectacular quest for a wild Bolero

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US Election Fake News Special

1 x 30' October 2020

A special edition of Private Eye podcast Page 94

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Addicted to Painkillers?

1 x 60’ January 2020

Horizon with Michael Mosley on Britain’s Opioid Crisis

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Ian Hislop's Fake News

1 x 60' October 2019

A true history

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Meteorlight /Penguin/Quarantine/Slug Life, Best Anim. Short LISFF /BAFF/LSFF/OAF;Broadcast Digital Award nomination
Animation 2018

1 x 100' December 2018

13 animations from the UK’s new and emerging filmmakers

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Diagnosis on Demand?

1 x 60' November 2018

Hannah Fry on how AI is revolutionising healthcare

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Return to T. S. Eliotland

1 x 60' October 2018

A. N. Wilson explores the life and work of T. S. Eliot ...

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The Joy of AI

1 x 60' September 2018

Jim Al-Khalili argues AI is friend not foe…  

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Best International Film, AFO
The Joy of Winning

1 x 60' August 2018

Hannah Fry shows how maths can help you win

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Abducted

1 x 60' August 2018

Elizabeth I’s Child Actors

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Speechless

1 x 60' October 2017

A nightmare world where you can think but cannot speak

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Tunes for Tyrants

3 x 60' October 2017

Music & Power with Suzy Klein

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Debbie Award for Best Debut Director for Maia Krall Fry; Nomination for Ruth Grinberg
Listen To Britain 2017

1 x 135' September 2017

Visions of the UK from new directors

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Who Should We Let In?

1 x 60' June 2017

Ian Hislop on the first great immigration row

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Into the Wind

1 x 30' April 2017

One man's quest to capture the elusive sound of 'pure' wind. 

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'Nobel' prize at WCSFP for explaining complex science
The Joy of Data

1 x 60' July 2016

Dr Hannah Fry immerses herself in data

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Workers or Shirkers?

1 x 60’ April 2016

Ian Hislop’s Victorian Benefits

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2 West End Wilma nominations
Beyond the Fence - a new musical

1 x 120' March 2016

Full broadcast of the world's first computer musical

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Banff Rockie Nominee & Broadcast Awards Nominee "Best Original Programme"
Computer Says Show

2 x 60' Feb / March 2016

Is this the future for creativity?

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The Great American Love Song with Nicky Campbell

1 x 60' May 2015

Six of the best songs ever written

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Don't Panic:
How To End Poverty in 15 Years

1 x 60' September 2015

A surprisingly feel-good show about the way the world is heading

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How to be Bohemian with Victoria Coren Mitchell

3 x 60' June 2015

On art, life and excess

 

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The Real Tom Thumb

1 x 90' November 2014

History's smallest superstar

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Everyday Eden

1 x 60' April 2014

A potted history of the suburban garden

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Ian Hislop's Olden Days
The Power of the Past in Britain

3 x 60' April 2014

The power of the past in Britain

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Prix Italia, Rose D’Or
and Grierson Winner,
BAFTA, RTS and
Broadcast Nominee
Our Gay Wedding: The Musical

1 x 60' March 2014

Benjamin and Nathan get married

 

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Winner Best Science AFO,
2 Grierson Nominations,
Banff Rockie Nomination
The Joy of Logic

1 x 60' December 2013

A plausible proposition

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Nominated
Sandford St Martins
Cathedrals

3 x 60' November 2013

Wakefield, Wells and Southwark

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RTS Journalism Winner for Innovation, Winner BUFVC Learning On Screen
Don't Panic:
The Truth About Population

1 x 60' October 2013

Unmissable infographic extravaganza with Hans Rosling

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Tails You Win:
The Science of Chance

1 x 60' October 2012

'Risky' television

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Ian Hislop's Stiff Upper Lip

3 x 60' October 2012

An emotional history of Britain

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Networks of Power

6 x 60' July 2012

Sir Christopher Meyer in pursuit of power and influence in six of the world's top cities

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Nominated Sandford St Martins
Angelic Voices

1 x 90' March 2012

The Choristers of Salisbury Cathedral

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Grierson Shortlisted Best Documentary Series
Catholics

3 x 60' February 2012

Three films about the agonies and the ecstasies of being Catholic

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Winner Sandford St Martins
Ian Hislop: When Bankers Were Good

1 x 60' November 2011

Money and morality in Victorian Britain

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The Pendle Witch Child

1 x 60' August 2011

Simon Armitage tells the extraordinary and disturbing story of Jennet Device

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Grierson Winner best Science/Natural History
The Joy of Stats

1 x 60' December 2010

Swedish statistical guru Hans Rosling explores The Joy of Stats

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Ian Hislop's Age of the Do-Gooders

3 x 60' November 2010

The reformers that transformed Victorian Britain

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Getting Our Way with Sir Christopher Meyer

3 x 60' February 2010

A history of British diplomacy from the inside 

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Ian Hislop's Changing of the Bard

1 x 60' May 2009

An amused look at the role of poet Laureate

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Ian Hislop Goes Off the Rails

1 x 60' October 2008

Train Stopping...

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NTA and BAFTA nominated
Joanna Lumley in the Land of the Northern Lights

1 x 60' September 2008

A magical journey to the far north

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London Calling

3 x 60' June 2007

Inside the World Service

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Balderdash & Piffle - Series 2

8 x 30' May 2007

More mysteries of the English language

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Grierson shortlist
Ian Hislop's Scouting for Boys

1 x 60' May 2007

Baden-Powell and his Scout handbook

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Mortgaged to the Yanks

1 x 60' January 2007

Sir Christopher Meyer's 'special relationship'

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Balderdash & Piffle - The Results Show

1 x 50' April 2006

B&P viewers help rewrite the Oxford English Dictionary

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Balderdash & Piffle - Series 1

 7 x 50' January 2006

The hidden histories behind English words

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Motherland: Moving On

1 x 60' October 2004

Next steps in the genetic journey

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Winner RTS, UNESCO Gold plaque, One World Media awards; Grierson nominated
Motherland: A Genetic Journey

1 x 90' February 2003

A pioneering study in identity

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An Indian Affair

3 x 60' October 2001

From Riches to Raj

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UK Confidential

31 programmes 1999-2017

Exclusive, advanced access to government secrets

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Back to the Future

1 x 60' January 2000

Visions of the future for the new millennium

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Leviathan - Series 3

8 x 30' April 1999

Even more history behind the headlines

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Leviathan - Series 2

8 x 30' May 1998

More history behind the headlines

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Leviathan - Series 1

8 x 30' July 1997

The history behind the headlines

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