2010:
"Smallpox through Time" (Timelines.tv)
Writer / producer / presenter of an online video resource commissioned by the Wellcome Trust for Timelines.tv. Winner of the 2010 BAFTA award for best educational resource.
"The Story of Islam" (Timelines.tv)
In development: an online film history of the Islamic World for Timelines.tv.
"Westminster Abbey" (Tilted Vision Ltd)
Writer / presenter of an educational feature commissioned by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey.
"The Story of US: Westward" / "The Story of US: Heartland" (Nutopia Ltd)
Producer / director of two episodes of the History Channel's epic 12-part history of America. Big budget drama and visual effects, shot on location in South Africa. Exec Producer Jane Root / Series Producer Ben Goold.
2009:
Timelines TV (www.timelines.tv)
Co-creator of an online history resource providing free-to-view documentary content for UK schools.
"Timelines.tv points the way to the future of learning History".
"The site looks amazing and very easy to use - excellent work."
"This is an amazing resource - a superb quality of material, and a beautifully designed site".
(Comments posted on schoolshistory.co.uk)
2008:
"Julius Caesar and the Druids: Revealed" (Change Productions)
Producer / director of a one-hour archaeological drama-doc for Five and Nat Geo.
"A startling documentary. Stunning reconstructions of the past bring the Druids to life, while new archaeological finds expose their dirty secrets". (Daily Mirror)
"Spine-tingling". (The Times)
"Racily educational." (Daily Mail)
"Julius Caesar and the Druids was one of those programmes from Five that offers both entertainment and enlightenment. A captivating chronicle." (The Guardian)
2007:
"The Last Slave" (October Films for C4)
Executive Producer.
"A Tabloid is Born" (October Films for BBC4)
Executive Producer.
2005-2007:
"Timelines" (Lodestar Productions / October Films for the BBC)
Writer / producer / presenter of a five-hour BBC TV series covering a thousand years of British History. 5x60"
Ep 1. Who Ruled? 1066-1660 - BAFTA and RTS nominations
Ep 2. How We Won The Vote
Ep 3. Empire - BAFTA Winner, best educational programme, 2006
Eps 4. & 5. Changing Lives
2005:
"Global View" (Lodestar Productions for the History Channel)
Presenter / producer / writer of a series of historical features for the US History Channel's magazine programme "Global View". Reporting across Europe on subjects as diverse as the Zulu Wars and the Guttenberg Bible. 24 x 7".
2004:
"Pilate: The Man Who Killed Christ" (Lodestar Productions / October Films for C4)
Drama-doc, shot on location in Morocco. Producer / director / writer.
"Serious and stimulating history, vivid and full of surprises." (Financial Times)
"Timely and fascinating." (Daily Mail)
Curriculum Bites: "Interpretations" (Lodestar Productions for BBC Learning)
Educational resource for secondary schools. Series Producer. BAFTA Nominee.
Curriculum Bites: "The French Revolution" (Lodestar Productions for BBC Learning)
Educational resource for secondary schools. Series Producer.
2003:
"Seven Journeys in the American West" (Lodestar Productions for BBC Learning)
The story of how the West was won - and lost - through the accounts of seven eye-witnesses. Studio reconstructions intercut with self-shot interviews and landscape photography. Producer / director / cameraman / writer. BAFTA and RTS nominations.
"Who Killed Thomas Becket?" (Lodestar Productions / October Films for C4)
Medieval drama-doc. Producer / director / writer.
"Flamboyantly entertaining talking heads and stylish reconstructions make this a compelling retelling of a not-so-familiar story." (Mail on Sunday)
"I was pinned to the sofa." (The Guardian)
2002:
"Britain 1906-1918 - A History in Photographs" (Lodestar Productions for BBC Learning)
The story of Edwardian Britain, told through the eyes of the pioneers of photo-journalism. 1x60". Producer / director / writer. BAFTA winner.
2001:
"Gunpowder, Treason and Plot" (Wall to Wall for C4)
Director of a feature length drama-doc for C4's "Plague, Fire, War, Treason" season.
"Historical fact is made more gripping than a Hollywood thriller." (Daily Mail)
"The reconstructions and performances are superb. A class act." (Time Out)
"A vastly engrossing historical documentary." (The Guardian)
"The format may have been familiar enough - historians interspersed with dramatized reconstructions - but I have seldom seen it done so well." (Sunday Telegraph)
2000:
"American Voices" (Lodestar Productions for BBC Learning)
A five-part history of the American Depression, reconstructing oral history from the 1930s. 5x25". Producer / director / writer.
Ep 1. Immigrant America - RTS nominee
Ep 2. Boom and Bust
Ep 3. Hard Times
Ep 4. New Deal
Ep 5. Black America
1999:
"History File: The Cold War" (Lodestar Productions for BBC Learning)
5x25" drama-doc. Producer / director / writer.
Ep 1. Berlin 1945-1948
Ep 2. Hungary 1956
Ep 3. U2 and the Arms Race - RTS winner, best education programme 2000
Ep 4. Cuban Missile Crisis
Ep 5. Evil Empire
1998:
"History File: The Soviets" (Lodestar Productions for BBC Learning)
5x25" drama-doc. Producer / director / writer.
Ep 1. The Fall of Tsarism
Ep 2. Bolshevik Russia
Ep 3. The Rise of Stalin
Ep 4. Life under Stalin
Ep 5. Stalin and the Bomb
1997:
"History File: Nazi Germany" (BBC)
The most popular and widely used history series ever broadcasted for use in UK secondary schools, and still a perennial favourite in British classrooms 14 years after its first transmission. 5x25" drama-doc. Producer / director / writer.
Ep 1. The Rise of Hitler
Ep 2. Life in Hitler's Germany
Ep 3. Master Race - BAFTA winner, best educational programme 1997
Ep 4. Youth in Hitler's Germany
Ep 5. Opposition to Hitler
1996:
"Shakespeare Shorts" (BBC)
Scenes from Shakespeare restaged for a modern teenage audience. 5x25". Documentary producer / director.
Ep 1. Romeo and Juliet - RTS winner, double BAFTA winner.
Ep 2. Twelfth Night
Ep 3. Julius Caesar
Ep 4. Macbeth
Ep 5. A Midsummer Night's Dream
1990-1995:
Director of over 30 programmes in-house at the BBC, including programmes on Roman, Medieval, Tudor, Stuart, Industrial and 20th century World history.
1988-1990:
BBC Graduate Trainee
1984-1987:
Trinity Hall, Cambrige (MA Hons, Cantab)