DIANA'S
DRESSES
In June 1997 Diana, Princess of Wales
auctioned seventy-nine of her dresses and gowns at Christie's in New York. Two
months later Diana was dead. The new owners realised they had
something very special on their hands...
BBC1 DOCUMENTARY /50 mins and HBO (1999)
"An exquisitely dry, clever and funny
programme" Evening Standard
"Diana's Dresses was an unlooked-for
treat" The Independent
See it here
THE DAY THE GUNS FELL SILENT Parts One & Two
At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day
of the eleventh month of 1918, Big Ben struck for the first
time in four years to celebrate the end of the Great War. On
this day, the survivors and their families looked back to a
world that had gone for ever, and wondered what kind of world
was waiting for them now.
Part One: Before 11 o'clock
Part Two: After 11 o'clock
BBC1 DOCUMENTARY /2 x 50 mins
(1998)
"Profoundly moving" Daily Mail
"Narrated to perfection by Timothy
West" The Guardian
See
Part One
See Part
Two
MODERN
TIMES: SHOOTING VERSACE
Legendary Israeli action-director MENAHEM
GOLAN and producer SAM LUPOWITZ race Hollywood to the
screen with their ultra-low-budget movie THE
VERSACE MURDER
BBC2 MODERN TIMES /50 mins
(1998) Also THE LAST
MOGULS below See it here
"Hugely entertaining" The Times
"Jaw-dropping...Delicious comedy"
Independent
"Brilliant" Evening Standard
"Hilarious" Jewish Chronicle
SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD II
Second series (see below)
1. AUBREY MANNING, Professor of Natural
History, Edinburgh
2. MONICA GRADY, Curator of Meteorites, Natural History Museum
3. ARTHUR
C. CLARKE
4. THOMAS EISNER, Professor of
Neuropharmacology, Cornell
5. RICHARD
DAWKINS, Professor for the Public Understanding of
Science,Oxford
6. ALISON JOLLY, primatologist, Princeton
7. STEVEN PINKER,
Professor of Neuropsychology, MIT
BBC2 /7 x 30 minutes (1997)
"Beautiful television... Programme of
the week. No question" The Guardian
"Seven Wonders is that rarity among TV
programmes - it treats the viewer with respect" Daily
Express
"Wonderfully entertaining stuff" The
Times
"This marvellous series" The Observer
EQUINOX: DO
VAMPIRE BATS HAVE FRIENDS?
An exploration of the question of animal
awareness and the mystery of consciousness . See, for example, philosopher Thomas
Nagel's famous essay 'What is it like to be a bat?'
and experimental psychologist Nicholas
Humphrey's documentary 'The Ghost in the Machine'
Channel
4 EQUINOX Special /60 mins (1997)
"Genuinely thought-provoking" The Times
See it here
SEVEN
WONDERS OF THE WORLD
A sort of scientific Desert Island Discs:
in each programme, a brilliant scientist tells us
about his or her own
seven wonders of the world
1. MIRIAM
ROTHSCHILD, zoologist
2. STEVE
JONES, Professor of Genetics, UCL
3. STEPHEN
JAY GOULD, Professor of Geology and Zoology, Harvard
4.
JAMES LOVELOCK, physiologist and inventor
5. JULIE
THERIOT, cell biologist
6.
DANNY HILLIS, physicist and supercomputer designer
7.
JOHN MAYNARD SMITH, Professor of Zoology, Sussex
BBC2 /7 x 30 minutes (1995)
"Some of the freshest science
programmes for a long time" The Times
"Programme of the week" Independent on
Sunday
"A damn fine programme" Time Out
"Few series have celebrated Earth's
awesome beauty more than this Wednesday-night series" Hello!
HORIZON: NO ORDINARY GENIUS Parts One & Two
(aka THE BEST MIND SINCE EINSTEIN in the
one-hour NOVA version on PBS)
The life and times of RICHARD
FEYNMAN, theoretical physicist
BBC2 HORIZON/WGBH NOVA /2 x 50 mins
(1993)
"Fascinating portrait of a brilliant
physicist" Daily Telegraph
"His sheer charisma keeps you hooked"
Time Out
See the book No
Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman
HORIZON: THE
STRANGE LIFE AND DEATH OF DR TURING
ALAN
TURING 1912-1954.Mathematical genius, wartime ENIGMA code-breaker,
and godfather of the digital computer
BBC2 HORIZON/WGBH NOVA /50 mins
(1992)
"Director Christopher Sykes brings
Turing to life with humour and affection" Daily Mail
"A compelling picture of an exceptional
man" Time Out
"Highlight of the week... Don't miss
Horizon at any price" CapitalGay
See Part One
See Part Two
OMNIBUS: HOW
TO TELL A TRUE WAR STORY
TIM O'BRIEN,
ex-Vietnam footsoldier and author of If I Die in a Combat
Zone, Going After Cacciato, and The Things They
Carried
BBC1 OMNIBUS /60 mins (1991)
[never broadcast]
See it here
OMNIBUS: MY
MOST DIFFICULT BOOK
VLADIMIR
NABOKOV and how he wrote Lolita
- with MARTIN
AMIS, AS BYATT and EDMUND
WHITE
BBC1 OMNIBUS /60 mins (1989)
"Ingeniously constructed and totally
absorbing" Daily Telegraph
"A scholarly gem" Daily Mail
"A fascinating insight" Time Out
"An intriguing session round the Eng
Lit anatomy slab" Evening Standard
"Spot on" The Observer
See it
here
EQUINOX:
LETTERS FROM AN INDIAN CLERK
The romantic story of GH Hardy's
relationship with the mathematical genius SRINIVASA
RAMANUJAN
Download the full text of Hardy's classic
memoir A
Mathematician's Apology on which this film
is based.
InCA/Channel 4
EQUINOX/WGBH NOVA /60 mins (1987)
See it
here
OMNIBUS: THE
LAST MOGULS
The Israeli go-go boys, movie mavericks MENAHEM
GOLAN and YORAM GLOBUS. The rise and rise of Cannon
Films, the most powerful independent in Hollywood.
See also SHOOTING VERSACE
above
BBC1 OMNIBUS /60 mins (1986)
THE INNER
EYE
A six-part investigation into the riddle
of human consciousness, with experimental psychologist NICHOLAS HUMPHREY
1 Imagined Worlds
3 The Ghost in the Machine See it
here
6 How like an Angel?
Artifax for Channel 4 / 6 x 60 mins
(1986)
ONE PAIR OF
EYES: MAKING MISCHIEF
'Pendennis' of The Observer, PETER HILLMORE, goes in search of hot gossip...
BBC2 /30 mins (1984)
ONE PAIR OF EYES: FOOLS AND ANGELS See it here
The English visionary artist CECIL
COLLINS
BBC2 /30 mins (1984)
AFTER THE
MASSACRE
Beirut, 1983. A hundred British soldiers
are part of the International Peacekeeping Force in the
aftermath of Chatila-Sabra...
THE BBC1 DOCUMENTARY /50 mins (1983)
FUN TO IMAGINE
Six short films in which physicist RICHARD
FEYNMAN enjoys himself explaining how the world works
.
See YouTube
or BBC
Archive
BBC2 / 6 x varying durations, total about
an hour (1983)
VILLAGERS
Sights and sounds of village India
BBC2 /15 mins (1982)
HORIZON: THE PROFESSOR OF SURGERY
IAN
McCOLL, Guys Hospital, London (and the House of Lords)
BBC2 HORIZON /50 mins (1982)
BEFORE THE MASSACRE
Beirut, 1982. Doctors and nurses from
around the world have volunteered to help clear up the human
debris in the aftermath of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and
the siege of West Beirut
BBC1 QED Special /50 mins (1982) See it
here
HORIZON:
EAST OF BOMBAY
Revolutionary medicine and social
engineering in rural Maharastra with Drs RAJNIKANT and MABELLE
AROLE
BBC2 HORIZON /50 mins (1982)
HORIZON:
WEST OF BANGALORE
Alternative technology in rural Karnataka
with Professor AMULYA
REDDY and his
colleages at ASTRA/Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
BBC2 HORIZON /50 mins (1982)
HORIZON: THE PLEASURE OF FINDING THINGS OUT
Autobiography of RICHARD
FEYNMAN, Nobel laureate and theoretical physicist
extraordinary
BBC2 HORIZON/NOVA /50 mins UK and 60 mins
USA (1982)
See
it here or at BBC
Archive
OPEN SECRET:
THE DBCP FILE
A pesticide scandal
BBC1 /30 mins (1980)
OPEN SECRET:
FOR FIVE DOLLARS A DAY
Industrial lead poisoning in West Virginia
BBC1 /30 mins (1980)
ARENA:
MENTIONED IN DISPATCHES
The story of ace British war photographer
TIM
PAGE, as told by Michael
Herr in his legendary Vietnam memoir, Dispatches
BBC2 ARENA /50 mins (1980)
See it
here
THE CLONE
AFFAIR
An investigation into American science journalist DAVID
RORVIK's great publishing hoax, a supposed first-hand account
of the world's first successful cloning of a human child
THE BBC1 DOCUMENTARY /50 mins (1979)
See it
here
OUR PETER
The extraordinary story of an extraordinary Barnsley boy, Peter
O'Neill
with RAMSAY SHORT
BBC1 /60 mins (1978)
THE WAR
AGAINST POLIO
The dramatic story of JONAS SALK
and ALBERT
SABIN and the great race to make the first polio vaccine
(producer
KARL
SABBAGH)
BBC1 TUESDAY DOCUMENTARY /50 mins (1977)
MAD DOGS AND
SMUGGLERS
The rabies threat to Britain, with CHRISTOPHER
BRASHER
BBC1 TUESDAY DOCUMENTARY /50 mins
THE CHANGING FACE OF
MEDICINE
Medical triumphs and challenges (producer KARL
SABBAGH)
1. Victories
2. Mysteries (including an analysis of President Nixon's 'War on
Cancer')
BBC1 /50 mins (1975)