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Hardcash Productions is a British independent television production company set up by David Henshaw in 1992.
Hardcash specialises in current affairs programmes and has won a range of awards - including seven Emmys, three BAFTAs, the Prix Italia, five Royal Television Society Awards, three Peabodys and two Griersons. [1] Hardcash most recently won a BAFTA for its 2022 ITV Exposure film 'Fearless: The Women Fighting Putin'.. [2] David Henshaw was made a Fellow of the Royal Television Society in 2009. In 2022, Esella Hawkey became Hardcash's Creative Director. Most recently, Hardcash won the 2023 Emmy for Best Long Form Feature with Putin's War at Home (ITV and PBS Frontline).
The Hardcash name came from an undercover investigation about rogue employers made by Henshaw for the BBC. The programme was never aired for legal reasons. Henshaw set up Hardcash to remake the programme for Channel 4 as an episode of the Cutting Edge series. It was broadcast under the simple title Undercover and started the Undercover Britain and Countryside Undercover strands of covert investigations.
Hardcash has specialised in making investigative documentaries in some of the world's most dangerous places - including North Korea, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. At home, the company has exposed the abusive treatment of both the young and old in privately run care homes and hospitals, reported on disability issues, and filmed undercover in exposing modern day slavery.
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