LAST UPDATED: 01 JANUARY 2024

My TV career began at Granada in Manchester (a long time ago) where I worked on documentaries about Marc Bolan, New York Cops, the British Army and 1970s wrestlers, as well as putting in shifts in the newsroom and on This Morning.  I moved to the BBC as series producer of I Love The 70s (BBC2), followed by 10 years as a freelance director, series producer and film editor. I directed and produced music films including Hotel California – LA From the Byrds to the The Eagles (BBC2), I Shot John Lennon (Channel 4), The Story of The Undertones (BBC4) and Do It Yourself – The Story of Rough Trade Records (BBC4); and history and arts series such as The Crusades (BBC2), Who Do You Think You Are (BBC1), The Genius of Design (BBC2), The Great Estate – The Rise & Fall of Council Housing (BBC4) and Timewatch – the BBC’s flagship history series, for which I made films about Bonnie & Clyde, the Beatles, and Cornish ship wreckers. I also series produced a range of access-based series and formatted shows including Northern Rites (Channel 4), So You Think You Can Teach (Channel 5) and Animal Cops (HBO).

From 2012-2014 I worked as Commissioning Editor for Factual at Sky.  I helped to establish Sky Atlantic’s theatrical feature documentary slate and was Executive Producer on films including Alex Gibney’s Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief - for which I won an Emmy - and Beeban Kidron’s InRealLife.  For Sky1 I commissioned series including Micky Flanagan’s Detour de France, The Holidaymakers (Sky’s first ever fixed-rig series) and Flintoff – From Lords to the Ring.  I also commissioned films for Sky Arts including David Bailey’s Stardust, My Shakespeare, and The South Bank Show.

From 2014-2015 I was head of popular factual at new indie 7 Wonder, establishing a factual slate and developing and securing series commissions with BBC, Channel 4 and Sky.

Since 2016 I have been back at the programme-making coal-face (the best place) working as a freelance director, series producer and film editor. Most recently I’ve been working on prestige projects for streamers: Series Editor on Asif Kapadia’s upcoming Camden series for Disney and Series Producer on Swamp Kings - part of Netflix’s ‘Untold’ strand. I’m currently Series Director a major new documentary series for Sky Documentaries, weaving a together dramatic unfolding narrative with retrospective interviews and archive.

In Autumn 2021 I edited the EMMY & ROSE D’OR winning, BAFTA & GRIERSON nominated, feature documentary Freddie Mercury - The Final Act, working with multi-award winning director James Rogan. Before that I series produced and directed A Life in Ten Pictures, a high-rating and critically acclaimed new biography format for BBC2. In addition to series producing, I spent most of 2020 authoring, series producing & directing The Shipman Files, a 3-part BBC series re-examining Britain’s biggest serial killer. In 2018, I series produced, directed and edited The Art of Drumming, four films for Sky Arts exploring the art of rock & roll drumming and shooting with around 30 of the best drummers in the world. The series won RTS Best Arts Series in 2019.

In addition to directing, I’ve also overseen many projects as a development executive, writer, and show runner, for production companies including Nutopia, Pulse, Wall to Wall and BBC Studios.

When I’m not making TV documentaries I play, write & listen to music and play football (all with genuine moments of mediocrity); and watch an unhealthy amount of film & television.