2002 - 2012 Head of Factual, BBC Scotland
While
continuing to work as a hands-on Executive Producer, I ran a busy network TV department
producing 120 hours of science, documentary and arts programming per year and
managed a 170 strong in-house team based in Glasgow.
As Executive Producer, BBC Factual, Scotland
2002 - 2010
·
Imagine: 3 seasons (3 x 14) including super star pianist Lang Lang, neurologist Dr
Oliver Sacks, Eddie Izzard at the Hollywood Bowl and Benedict Cumberbatch
playing Van Gogh
·
Food Factory BBC One’s food science format with
Stefan Gates
·
The Strange Case of Arthur Conan
Doyle (drama)
starring Douglas Henshall and Emily Blunt
·
Bryon (drama) starring Jonny Lee Miller
·
Russell Brand - On the Road
·
Griff Rhys Jones: The Secret Life of
Arthur Ransome
·
Ian Rankin: Conan Doyle Investigates
·
Ian Rankin: Hidden Edinburgh
·
Submarine Rescue - feature length drama documentary
·
Film 2005-2009 with Jonathan Ross
·
Hollywood Greats with Jonathan Ross
·
World Cinema Awards with Jonathan Ross
· The Edinburgh Show
· Jonathan Meades Abroad in
Britain
· Jonathan Meades Off Kilter
·
Clarissa and the Countryman
·
Antonio Carluccio in Sicily
·
Antonio Carluccio- The Pope’s Cookbook
· Pop On Trial 6 x 30 with Stuart Maconie
· A Portrait of Scotland with Peter
Capaldi
·
Scotland on Screen with Alan Cumming
·
Beauty - with Roger Scruton
Factual Department highlights included:
2002 - 2012
·
Richard Hammond’s Journey to the
Centre of the Planet
(RTS Awards nominated)
·
Frontline Medicine with Michael Mosley
·
Men Of Rock with Dr Iain Stewart
·
Making Scotland’s Landscape with Dr Iain Stewart
· Jimmy’s Food Factory with Jimmy Doherty
· Jimmy's Farming Heroes
·
Rory Stewart The Legacy of Lawrence of Arabia
·
The Review Show
·
The Culture Show
· Neil Morrissey: Care Home Kid
·
RBS: Inside the Bank That Ran Out Of
Money
·
Parallel Worlds: Parallel Lives (winner: RTS and BAFTA
Awards)
· Rankin: Shooting Hollywood’s Stars
· Rankin: America in Pictures
·
Afterlife (Winner: Banff Film Awards)
·
The Secret Life of Waves with David Malone
·
The Story of Pathe
·
Levi Roots’ Caribbean Cooking
·
A History of Scotland - with Neil Oliver
BBC Commissioning Executive, Independent suppliers
2002-2009
- Griff
Rhys Jones - Mountain (IWC for BBC One)
- Secret Life of a Manic
Depressive
(IWC for BBC Two, winner: International Emmy)
- You
Can’t Fire Me I’m Famous (Brighter Pictures for BBC One)
- Wilderness:
St Kilda (IWC
for BBC One)
- Restoration seasons 1 and 2 (Endemol for
BBC Two)
- Restoration
Village (Endemol for BBC Two)
- Make
Me a Baby
(Mentorn for BBC Three)
- My
Childhood (Mentorn
for BBC Three)
- Get
A New Life (Brighter Pictures for BBC Two)
Arts Features Editor, BBC London Arts
1999-2001
- David Hockney’s Secret
Knowledge (BBC
Two) Best Arts Documentary Grierson Awards.
- Dickens - Peter Ackroyd’s three-part
drama documentary (BBC Two)
- Art That Shook the World Season 1 and 2 (BBC Two)
- Changing Stages. Richard Eyre’s story of the
theatre. Featuring leading 20th Century luminaries including
Cameron Mackintosh, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sir Peter Hall, Tom Stoppard,
Harold Pinter, Nicholas Hytner, Arthur Miller and Sir John Gielgud's final
interview (Co-produced with PBS network for BBC Two)
Awards highlights
·
Vincent Van Gogh: Painted with Words
Starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Best
Arts Documentary Banff Film Festival 2011 (Executive Producer, Imagine).
· Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive International Emmy 2009
(BBC Executive Producer, Produced by IWC).
· Parallel Worlds: Parallel Lives The story of the Eels lead
singer Mark Everett and his journey in search of his father the quantum physicist.
BAFTA, RTS, Grierson 2008 (Andrew Thompson and Louise Lockwood for BBC Scotland
Factual).
·
David
Hockney’s Secret Knowledge Grierson
Award 2002 (Executive Producer)
