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Matt Richards (born 21 November 1967) is a film and television producer/director/writer from St Minver in Cornwall.
After attending the University of Westminster Film School he raised the budget to follow explorer Michael Turner on an expedition to Senegal and the Cape Verde Islands and make a short film about his efforts to document the landing places of Sir Francis Drake. This film was so well received that the BBC commissioned him to complete the film which included a voyage to Panama to attempt to locate and raise the coffin of Sir Francis Drake. This expedition failed but the subsequent film In Drake's Wake was shown on BBC2. [1] His next film was The Gold Plane, again for BBC2. [2] Narrated by John Nettles, this 50-minute film followed the quest to prove that a plane crash in 1944 was the work of sabotage to prevent the secrets of D-Day being revealed to General Charles de Gaulle in Algiers. Since then he has made several historical documentaries which include Spilt Blood, In Search of the King, The Falklands War – The Real Thing, People's War, Industrial Revelations – Best of British and Secrets Beneath Our Feet.
In addition to these programmes and series he has directed long-running observational documentary series such as A National Treasure, The Tale of Three Farms, Civvy To Sailor, Fighter Pilot and Parklife. Other series include Out & About, How Do They Do It?, Collector's Lot, My Greek Kitchen, Treasures, Front of House, Seventy Years Under The Stars, Team Spirit, Health Matters, Cornish Chronicles, and Big Day Out. Recent programmes have included Wife Swap for Channel Four and Extraordinary People for Five. He has made a documentary mini-series about the International Brigade and their role in the Spanish Civil War, "The Brits Who Fought For Spain", which was a major collaboration between British and Spanish producers and broadcasters. He also made Rory & Paddy's Great British Adventure featuring Rory McGrath and Paddy McGuinness for Five as well as "Robson Green's Extreme Fishing" and "The Secret D-Day Disaster" for Five.
He directed the award-winning short film "If I Wish Really Hard" in 2010 and his first feature film "To Say Goodbye" received its World Premiere at the 2012 San Sebastian International Film Festival where it was nominated for the 2012 Serbitzu Award and was Executive Producer of the film "Ten Billion" directed by Peter Webber.
In 2012 he was awarded the 'Spirit of Tiger' Award in New Jersey, USA for "…outstanding documentary coverage of WWII."
He is the co-author, along with Mark Langthorne, of the books "83 Minutes: The Doctor, The Damage & The Shocking Death of Michael Jackson" (Blink, 2015), "Somebody To Love: The Life, Death & Legacy of Freddie Mercury" (Blink, 2016) and "The Hidden Army" (John Blake Publishing, 2018).
Sir David Frederick Attenborough is an English broadcaster and natural historian. He is best known for writing and presenting, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, the nine natural history documentary series forming the Life collection that together constitute a comprehensive survey of animal and plant life on Earth. He is a former senior manager at the BBC, having served as controller of BBC Two and director of programming for BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s. He is the only person to have won BAFTAs for programmes in each of black and white, colour, HD, 3D and 4K. In 2018 and 2019, he received Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Narrator. He considers his 2020 documentary film, David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet, his personal witness statement of his life and the future.
Roderick Keith Ogilvy "Rory" Bremner, is a Scottish impressionist and comedian, noted for his work in political satire and impressions of British public figures. He is also known for his work on Mock the Week as a panellist, award-winning show Rory Bremner...Who Else? and sketch comedy series Bremner, Bird and Fortune.
Steven William Moffat is a Scottish television writer and producer. He is best known for his work as showrunner, writer, and executive producer of two BBC One series: the science fiction television series Doctor Who and the contemporary crime drama television series Sherlock, based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. In 2015, Moffat was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire for his services to drama.
Patrick Joseph McGoohan was an American actor, screenwriter, and director. He began his career in the United Kingdom in the 1950s, relocating to the United States in the 1970s. His career-defining roles were in the British television series Danger Man and the surreal psychological drama The Prisoner, which he co-created. During his career, he received two Primetime Emmy Awards and a BAFTA. He was of Irish descent.
The BBC Natural History Unit (NHU) is a department of the BBC which produces television, radio and online content with a natural history or wildlife theme. It is best known for its highly regarded nature documentaries, including The Blue Planet and Planet Earth, and has a long association with David Attenborough's authored documentaries, starting with 1979's Life on Earth.
Patrick Joseph McGuinness is an English comedian, actor and television presenter. McGuinness rose to fame with the help of Peter Kay, who invited him to appear in his programmes That Peter Kay Thing, Phoenix Nights and Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere. He is best known for his roles within Channel 4, ITV and the BBC presenting game shows such as Take Me Out as well as, since 2019, being one of the three hosts of BBC's Top Gear.
Jon Blair, CBE is a South African-born writer, film producer and director of documentary films, drama and comedy.
William Woollard is a British television producer and presenter.
Laurence Rees is an English historian. He is a BAFTA winning historical documentary filmmaker and a British Book Award winning author of several books about Adolf Hitler, the Nazis and the atrocities committed, especially by the Nazis and the Soviets, during the 20th century. He is the former Head of BBC TV History Programmes.
Peter Taylor, is a British journalist and documentary-maker. He is best known for his coverage of the political and armed conflict in Northern Ireland, widely known as the Troubles, and for his investigation of Al Qaeda and Islamist extremism in the wake of 9/11. He also covers the issue of smoking and health and the politics of tobacco for which he was awarded the WHO Gold Medal for Services to Public Health. He has written books and researched, written and presented television documentaries over a period of more than forty years. In 2014, Taylor was awarded both a Royal Television Society lifetime achievement award and a BAFTA special award.
Christopher Hale is a British non-fiction writer and documentary producer who has produced documentaries for most of the major international broadcasters. From 2013 to 2017, he was the executive producer of the Channel News Asia International unit in Singapore. Hale and a small team of producers made a number of series including ‘Power and Piety’, five documentaries about religious conflict; ‘The Asian Century’ focusing on pivotal moments in Asian history; and ‘Inventing Southeast Asia’ made with Dr Farish Noor. CNAi won a number of regional awards.
"Blink" is the tenth episode of the third series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was first broadcast on 9 June 2007 on BBC One. The episode was directed by Hettie MacDonald and is the only episode in the 2007 series written by Steven Moffat. The episode is based on a previous short story written by Moffat for the 2006 Doctor Who Annual, entitled "'What I Did on My Christmas Holidays' By Sally Sparrow".
Dominic Sutherland is an English television director and producer.
Rory Williams is a fictional character portrayed by Arthur Darvill in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Having been introduced at the start of the fifth series, Rory joins the Eleventh Doctor as a companion in the middle of Series 5. As Amy Pond's fiancé, Rory is initially insecure because he believes Amy secretly loves the Doctor more. Later, however, he proves to be a hero in his own right and he and Amy get married. The couple conceive a daughter aboard the Doctor's time machine, the TARDIS, while in the time vortex, but their baby is kidnapped at birth. In "A Good Man Goes to War", Rory and Amy discover their time traveller friend River Song is actually their daughter, Melody Pond. The Doctor and River marry in "The Wedding of River Song", and Rory becomes the Doctor's father-in-law. In "The Angels Take Manhattan", the fifth episode of the seventh series, he and Amy are transported back in time by a Weeping Angel, leading to the couple's departure from the series.
Jo Ho is a multi-award-winning British East Asian / Chinese screenwriter, director and author, best known for creating the BBC series Spirit Warriors. She has been credited as the first East Asian person in the UK to have successfully created an original television drama series. Spirit Warriors is also the UK's first TV drama series to star a predominantly East Asian cast.
Denys Blakeway is a British television producer and author who is best known for documentaries and books about contemporary history.
Russell Barnes is a British television producer and director, known primarily for documentaries about science and contemporary history. He was educated at Bedford Modern School and studied history at Christ's College, Cambridge.
Andrew Williams is a British writer and former television journalist. He is a former Senior Producer and Director at the BBC, the author of five historical novels and two histories of the Second World War.
Eduardo Daniel Bogado is a British - Paraguayan documentary producer and director, who has worked with Channel 4, including its series Dispatches. He has won several awards for his documentaries in Africa, highlighting problems with communities in several countries.
David Adetayo Olusoga is a British historian, writer, broadcaster, presenter and film-maker. He is Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester. He has presented historical documentaries on the BBC and contributed to The One Show and The Guardian.
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