Gauguin – a dangerous life
Director: Patricia Wheatley
Timed to coincide with the exhibition of Gauguin's portraits at the National Gallery. Cinema release October 2019, BBC broadcast December 2019.
general documentaries
Discovery Education
Producer: Susie Staples
Music for several Discovery Education programmes.
The Rose
Short promotional film by jewellery designer Eliane Fattal: the making of The Rose.
Hokusai
Director: Patricia Wheatley
Japan's greatest artist.
British Museum and NHK co-production.
Cinema release June 2017, BBC broadcast July 2017.
Eccentria
A Mustique Tale
Lord Glenconner and the island of Mustique.
Discobolus
The Discus Thrower
British Museum film about the famous discus thrower: a marble copy of the lost bronze original of the fifth century BC.
How to start a revolution
Producer/Director: Ruaridh Arrow
The story of the power of people to change their world, the modern revolution and the man behind it all: Gene Sharp, the world's leading expert on non-violent revolutions.
The whale that swam to London
Director: Toby MacDonald
The tale of the whale that got lost and swam up the Thames. Despite great efforts to save her, she died, but in doing so revealed much to science.
Disappearing Britain: Tea
Director: Richard Shaw
Daniel Libeskind – the making of an architect
Director: Chris Swann
The story of the architect of the Jewish Museum in Berlin who rose to prominence when he became the master planner of the rebuilding of Ground Zero.
K9 cops
Director: Susie Staples
The riddle of Einstein’s brain
Director: Tom Cholmondeley
Two scientists set out to find the remnants of Einstein's brain. Does genius reside in human tissue, or is it something more mysterious and incorporeal?
The Beatle Diaries
Director: Alan Ravenscroft
From Liverpool to San Francisco: the story of The Beatles from 1963 to 1969.
World Class Trains
Director: Alan Ravenscroft
On board some of the world’s most luxurious locomotives in some of the world’s most exotic locations.
The mysterious hanging coffins of China
Director: Toby Macdonald
Unravelling the legend of the extinct Bo people and their extraordinary legacy: coffins clinging perilously to cliffs.
Winner: Best Documentary, Asian TV Awards 2004.
The new face of leprosy
Director: Jenny Barraclough
Eat dirt
Director: Alison Turner