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Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Wales HD

The story of Britain’s biggest ever food scandal. Mad cow disease has killed almost 200 people. It is an epidemic that was created through greed and political miscalculation. Show more

Contributors

Director:
Will Lorimer
Editor:
James Gold
Executive Producer:
Liesel Evans
Production Manager:
Clara Thomas
Composer:
Mat Davidson
Production Company:
Raw Factual Ltd

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Documentary following a group of primary schoolchildren over the course of a year as they learn to read. Some make a flying start, but others struggle even with the alphabet. Show more

Contributors

Director:
Sam Benstead
Executive Producer:
Liesel Evans
Composer:
Nainita Desai
Editor:
James Gold
Camera Operator:
Sam Benstead
Animator:
Sam Benstead
Production Company:
Century Films Ltd

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Wales

Available for years

During the 1970s and 1980s, Mary's campaigns against pornography and 'video nasties' raise her profile still further. But new media forms overtake her efforts to censor content. Show more

Contributors

Executive Producer:
Abigail Priddle
Executive Producer:
Janet Lee
Editor:
James Gold
Commissioning Editor:
Sam White
Commissioning Editor:
Mark Bell
Unit Manager:
Tracey Bagley
Line Producer:
Evih Efue

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Wales

Available for years

In 1963, armed with just a typewriter, a Midlands housewife began a 30-year battle against the permissive society. But how successful was the original ‘cancel culture’ warrior? Show more

Contributors

Executive Producer:
Abigail Priddle
Executive Producer:
Janet Lee
Editor:
James Gold
Commissioning Editor:
Sam White
Commissioning Editor:
Mark Bell
Unit Manager:
Tracey Bagley
Line Producer:
Evih Efue

Princess Margaret: The Rebel Royal

Series 1

Episode 2: Castaway

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Available for years

Intimate series profiling Princess Margaret. The second film finds Princess Margaret and Anthony Armstrong-Jones at the start of their married life in the early 1960s. Show more

Princess Margaret: The Rebel Royal

Series 1

Episode 1: Pleasure vs Duty

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two Northern IrelandLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Available for years

Two-part series profiling Princess Margaret. This account reveals how Princess Margaret combined the rebellious force of modernity and respect for tradition. Show more

Duration: 29 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland

Available for 12 months

September 2013. The activists set off for the Arctic, but they’re being tailed by Russian security forces, and their actions at the oil rig are met with brutal force. Show more

Duration: 29 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland HD

Available for 12 months

Two climbers are captured by the Russian coastguard in the 2013 protest. Shots are fired. The FSB captures the ship, but the activists try to keep filming. Show more

Duration: 29 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland HD

Available for 11 months

The 2013 campaign to free the activists gets underway, but a Kremlin smear campaign is initiated. Conditions in prison are brutal, and one of the prisoners is rushed to hospital. Show more

Duration: 29 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Wales HD

Available for 11 months

Footage of the 2013 illegal boarding must be smuggled out of prison in time for an international tribunal. The imprisoned activists pin their hopes on being released on bail. Show more

Duration: 29 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland

Available for 12 months

The ship is captured in the 2013 peaceful protest and towed to Murmansk. The activists expect a 48-hour detention but are charged with piracy, which carries a 15-year sentence. Show more

Duration: 29 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Wales

Available for 11 months

A Beatle joins the fight, the protestors finally get bail and then a major amnesty before the 2014 Sochi Olympics free them to return home, but things go rapidly downhill for Russia. Show more