BBC Arena
Directed by Adam Low. Produced by Martin Rosenbaum, Diarmuid Lavery and Michael Hewitt
One hundred years since publication in 1922, Arena: James Joyce's Ulysses unlocks Joyce's masterpiece in all its surprising, poetic, moving, verbose, sexually explicit and endlessly hilarious glory. Featuring many of the novelists who have been inspired by it, including Salman Rushdie, Howard Jacobson, and Anne Enright.
Shortlisted for Grierson Award for Best Arts Documentary 2023
Elizabeth - A Portrait in Part(s)
Cinema Release and Amazon Prime.
Directed by Roger Michell. Produced by Kevin Loader
A feature length documentary for cinema and Amazon Prime offering a fresh perspective of the Queen. In Roger’s words “a truly cinematic mystery tour up and down the decades; playful, poetic, funny, disobedient, affectionate, mischievous”
BBC Imagine
Directed by Adam Low. Produced by Martin Rosenbaum
The Serbian performance artist invites Alan Yentob into her home, opens her studio, travels to her birthplace in Belgrade and talks about turning her life into art.
BBC Current Affairs
Directed and Produced by Vanessa Engle
A ninety minute film revealing the dark tale of a victim of a high class child abuse ring who vowed to bring down the establishment, but was uncovered as a fantasist and sex offender.
BBC Arena
Directed by Adam Low. Produced by Martin Rosenbaum,
Diarmuid Lavery and Michael Hewitt
A ninety minute film about poet Seamus Heaney told by his close family and filmed in the places he loved and wrote about.
BBC Arena
Directed and Produced by Vanessa Engle
A ninety minute crime caper telling the story of a rogue art dealer who swindled over $50 million from the art establishment before going on the run. The Times said;- “The $50m Art Swindle had one of the best openings to a documentary I’ve seen. This was splendid TV: a detective story and arty film in one.”
Shortlisted for Grierson Award for Best Arts Documentary 2022.
BBC Arena
Directed by Roger Michell. Produced by Sally Angel
The Private Life of the Royal Academy
BBC 2
Directed by Adam Low. Produced by Martin Rosenbaum
Narrated by Olivia Colman
An eighty minute peek behind the scenes of the 250 year old art gallery. Filmed over the course of a year from the Summer Exhibition to private dinners for Academicians and featuring many of the RA’s most prominent artists including Ai Wei Wei and Marina Abramovic.
Sgt Pepper’s
Musical Revolution
BBC 2
Directed by Frank Hanly. Produced by Jonathan Clyde.
Composer Howard Goodall looks back at the creation and ongoing influence of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band”. Using musical analysis and never-heard-before recording session outtakes, he breaks down the ideas and genius of the music itself.
The Triumphs and Laments
of William Kentridge
BBC Imagine
Directed by Adam Low. Produced by Martin Rosenbaum
Filmed whilst William worked on a performance piece in Rome, at his home in Johannesburg, on trips out to the mining areas outside Johannesburg, and finally in London installing a new exhibition.
BBC 2 and Cinema release.
Directed by Adam Low. Produced by Martin Rosenbaum.
An intimate chat with Alan as he reads from his diaries, makes searing political comments, and rummages through his cupboards to find old photos and mementos from his life.
BBC Imagine
Directed by Adam Low. Produced by Martin Rosenbaum
In 2013, The National Theatre adapted Mark Haddon's bestselling book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time for the stage. The story is told by a boy with autism, and it has helped transform our understanding of a condition that affects one in a hundred children. This film features those involved in the play, from early rehearsals and research to stage performances in both London and New York. This is interwoven with moving testimony from children and families on the challenges they face as they live with autism.
13, the stage production of Mark Haddon's bestselling book The Curio
Hillary Clinton: Power and the World’s Women
BBC Current Affairs
Directed and Produced by Francis Whately
In 1995 Clinton gave a speech which called out abuses against women’s rights around the world, she summed up with the words “Women’s rights are human rights”. This film looked at that speech and investigated some of the issues Clinton touched on.
Inside Harley Street - Make Me Beautiful
Directed and Produced by Vanessa Engle
Every kind of cosmetic procedure is available on Harley St, from botox to facelifts to hair transplants, all at a price. This film examines the doctors' motivations and values - cosmetic surgeon Angelica Kavouni operates on women to make them look younger and considers herself a feminist. Surgeon Greg Williams left the NHS after 25 years helping burns victims in order to work exclusively in the private sector doing hair transplants.
Sex and the West
BBC 2
Directed and Produced by Robin Dashwood
Diarmaid MacCulloch looks at what the bible actually says about sex and sexuality, particularly beliefs about same sex relationships.
The National Theatre at 50
BBC Arena
Directed by Adam Low. Produced by Martin Rosenbaum
A two part series looking at the last fifty years of the National Theatre from the point of view of the directors, actors and writers who worked there. Archive of real and theatrical events were woven together to tell a chronicle of the time.
The Dreams of William Golding
BBC Arena
Directed by Adam Low. Produced by Martin Rosenbaum.
Readings by Benedict Cumberbatch
A Ninety minute film looking at his work based on interviews with his children and unique access to his dream diaries.
Money - Episode 3 Couples
BBC
Directed and Produced by Vanessa Engle
This film examines what money represents within a relationship. How do couples agree on their financial priorities and who gets to make the financial decisions? The couples featured are of different ages and social classes and come from different parts of the country. The film explores in each case the extent to which money is a source of conflict for couples but also the ways in which it oils the wheels of our intimate relationships.
Empire
BBC 1
Directed by Robin Dashwood.
Jeremy Paxman explores the world looking at the influence of the British on the countries they colonised.
British Masters Episode 2
BBC 4
Directed by Matt Hill.
In this series, James Fox looks at the work of 20th Century British artists in their social and political context.
Seven Ages of Britain Episode 7
BBC 1
Directed by Jonty Claypole.
Presented by David Dimbleby, this series looks at British art, design and architecture and how it reflected and shaped the country.
TS. Eliot
BBC Arena
Directed by Adam Low. Produced by Martin Rosenbaum.
In 2008 TS. Eliot’s widow Valerie approached the BBC with Tom’s ‘scrapbooks’, which are an astonishingly personal account of their lives together. This ninety minute film spans the deeply personal scrapbooks, to the complex editing of the Waste Land.
Pete Doherty
BBC Arena
Directed and Produced by Ashtar Alkhirsan
An intimate portrait filmed with Pete in his flat, backstage and onstage at his gigs and with his girlfriend Kate Moss, where he talks frankly about fame and addiction.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
BBC 2
Directed and Produced by Tim Dunn.
Simon Armitage journeys in the footsteps of Gawain and delivers his re-imagined poem based on the exciting tale.
The Medici’s, Makers of Modern Art
BBC 2
Directed and Produced by John Mullen.
Andrew Graham-Dixon travels to Florence to look at how the Medici family shaped art and architecture in Italy.
Around the World
in 80 Treasures
BBC 2
Directed and Produced by Tim Dunn.
Documentary series presented by Dan Cruikshank where he travels the world showing us the most beautiful and precious things.
Joanna Crickmay edited episodes 5, 7, and 10.