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Toby Farrell CURRICULUM VITAE Toby Farrell WANTED: A Family of My Own 2 x 60’ Observational Documentary Wall To Wall/ITV1 Avid Offline; currently editing. Director: Carol White None Of The Above 30’ Factual Entertainment Renegade/Nat Geo Avid Offline. Host Tim Shaw takes science to the people, conducting a series of man-on-the-street experiments that involve science, physics and engineering. Edit Producer: Al Blane Science Of Stupid 2 x 30’ Documentary IWC Media/Nat Geo Avid Offline. Series exploring the science behind human misadventure. Producer/Director: Al Blane Undercover Boss Series 5 1 x 60’ Observational Documentary Studio Lambert/Ch. 4 Avid Offline; additional editing. High-flying executives take extraordinary steps to ensure their companies are fighting fit by going undercover in their own businesses. Producer: Guy Harris A Very British Ramadan 1 x 30’ Documentary Watershed TV/Ch. 4 Avid Offline. Rashid Khan, former professional rugby league player, travels across Britain exploring the physical, logistical and spiritual preparations for the holy month of Ramadan. Director: Catie Fexton Unreported World: Making Brazil Beautiful 1 x 30’ Documentary Quicksilver Media/Ch. 4 Avid Offline. Reporting on the huge growth in cosmetic plastic surgery in Brazil. Director: Suemay Oram What Do Artists Do All Day? 1 x 30’ Documentary BBC/BBC4 FCP Offline. This documentary paints an intimate portrait of one of Britain’s finest landscape artist, Norman Ackroyd. Ackroyd reflects on how a working class lad from Leeds found himself at the Royal College of Art in the Swinging Sixties. Director: Matthew Hill The Siege Of Malta 1 x 60’ Documentary Maya Vision Intl/BBC2 Avid Offline. Historian James Holland presents a fresh analysis of the World War Two battle for the tiny Mediterranean island of Malta. Producer/Director: Aaron Young The World Of Parade’s End 1 x 30’ Documentary BBC/BBC2 Avid Offline. Documentary celebrating Ford Madox Ford's classic novel cycle. Well-known writers and actors, for whom Parade's End has special meaning, give extra insight into the characters and the world they inhabit. Director: Linda Brusasco World’s Maddest Job Interview 1 x 60’ Factual Entertainment Special Cineflix/Ch. 4 Avid Offline. Eight volunteers have five days and one mission: to ace the world's maddest job interview. Some have had or are still managing significant mental health conditions, others have not had any at all. Can the volunteers prove that those with mental health issues are as employable as those without? Executive Producer: Camilla Lewis, Series Producer: Mandy Thomson Great British Story: A People’s History 2 x 60’ Documentary Maya/Vision/BBC2 Avid Offline. A series looking at history through the eyes of ordinary people. Rulers and royals, lords and ladies have all had their say down the centuries but Michael Wood shows us what the last 1,600 years were really like for everyday Britons. Producer: Rebecca Dobbs Dam Busters 1 x 60’ Documentary Maya Vision/BBC2 Avid Offline. Last year, James Holland presented a fresh analysis of the events surrounding the summer of 1940 in Battle of Britain: The Real Story. This autumn he's back, taking a similar approach to another well-known and treasured part of WWII history: Operation Chastise, aka the Dam Busters. Producer/Director: Aaron Young This World: India On Four Wheels 1 x 60’ Documentary BBC/BBC2 FCP Offline. Justin Rowlatt and Anita Rani take two very different road trips around India, investigating how the booming car industry has changed the country and the lives of its people. Producer/Director: Tom McCarthy, Series Producer: Cameron Balbirnie 2 GOLDHAWK MEWS ñ LONDON ñ W12 8PA TELEPHONE: 020 8746 2060 ñ FAX: 020 8749 8635 ñ e-mail: [email protected] The Independent Post Company Ltd is Registered in England No: 2701004 Registered Office: Unit 1, Rivermead, Pipers Way, Thatcham, Berkshire, RG19 4EP Page 2 of 4 Toby Farrell River Flows Westwards 60’ Documentary Series Lion TV Avid Offline. Major series which looks at the impact of Middle Eastern culture on World Civilization from the Neolithic period to the present day. Producer/Director: Ani King-Underwood Time Team Special: Boudica (w/t) 1 x 60’ Documentary Videotext/Ch. 4 Avid Offline. Director: Karen Walsh, Executive Producer: Jobim Sampson Battle of Britain: The Real Story 1 x 60’ Documentary Maya Vision/BBC2 Avid Offline. James Holland presents a fresh analysis into the Battle of Britain, exploring the lesser-told German point of view, and highlighting the role of those who supported the Few during the summer of 1940. Producer/Director: Aaron Young In Their Own Words- British Novelists: The Age of Doubt 1 x 60’ Documentary BBC/BBC2 Avid Offline. The story of the British novel in the 20th century told by those who know it best – the authors themselves. Plundering the BBC archive, and produced in partnership with The Open University, In Their Own Words reveals Britain's greatest novelists talking candidly about their life and work. Tropic of Cancer 1 x 60’ Documentary BBC/BBC2 FCP Offline. Simon Reeve embarks on an epic journey around the world following the Tropic of Cancer and uncovers environmental, political and human stories from some of the most remote places on the planet. Genius of Britain 1 x 60’ Documentary RDF Media/Ch. 4 Avid Offline. Richard Dawkins, James Dyson and Stephen Hawking celebrate the great thinkers and moments in British science, from Newton to the present day. With the help of other leading scientists, including Britain’s most recent Nobel Laureate Sir Paul Nurse and renowned physicist Jim Al-Khalili, they explore the stories behind some of this country’s greatest achievements. Dispatches: How They Squander Our Billions 1 x 60’ Documentary Snapper TV/Ch. 4 Avid Offline. Jane Moore examines the findings of a report due to be released on 9 March which details the escalation in government public sector spending and sets out what needs to be done to stop waste. It is reported that public spending wastage has cost every household nearly £50,000 over the past eleven years. Secret Millionaire 2 x 60’ Observational Documentary RDF/Ch. 4 Avid Offline. The Secret Millionaire (Rose D'Or winner 2007) features a new millionaire each week, fully committed and eager to make a difference to individual lives and communities. Each millionaire will go undercover and assume a new identity to enable them to live anonymously as part of the community before revealing who they really are and who they feel are the most deserving of their own hard-earned cash. Britain From Above 1 x 60’ Factual Entertainment Lion TV/BBC1 Avid Offline. Andrew Marr tells the story of Britain as we very rarely see her; taking viewers on a journey up and down the British Isles and back in time tens of thousands of years to reveal the habits, rhythms and little secrets that are only uncovered by looking down from above. Panorama: Notes From A Dirty Isle 1 x 40’ Current Affairs Maya Vision Int./BBC1 Avid Offline. Bill Bryson takes the viewer on a journey through the Britain he loves, and asks why do we treat our beautiful island so badly? Producer/Director: Jeremy Jeffs, Executive Producer: Rebecca Dobbs Coal House 1 x 60’ Observational Documentary Indus Films/BBC2 Avid Offline. Over four weeks the Cartwright family from Penarth near Cardiff, the Griffiths family from Ceredigion and the Phillips family from the Vale of Glamorgan cope with daily life as the mining community lived it 80 years ago. Everest: Beyond the Limit 1 x 60’ Observational Documentary Tigress/Discovery Avid Offline. Fine cutting. Series following climbers as they attempt fulfil their dream reaching the very top of the world’s highest peak. The One Show VT Inserts- Factual Entertainment Quickfire/BBC1 Avid Offline. The Iraq Commission 4 (of 8) x 101’ Current Affairs LWT/Ch. 4 Avid Offline. A specially selected commission of diplomats and the general public debate the future of Britain’s role in Iraq. Producers: Nicola Irvine & Amanda Woltheizen. Tribal Wives 1 x 60’ Observational Documentary Diverse/BBC2 Avid Offline. Six British women give up their everyday lives and spend a month living with some of the world's remotest tribes. Torture: The Guantanamo Guidebook 1 x 60’ Current Affairs Twenty Twenty/Ch. 4 Avid Offline. The interrogation techniques used in Guantanamo Bay have been calibrated to fall short of a legal definition of ‘torture’, however, legal experts say they do still constitute torture. The Guantanamo Guidebook reconstructs the regime at the US's Cuban base. For forty eight hours, seven volunteers are subjected to interrogation techniques known to be used in the camp, ranging from harassment and abuse to sensory deprivation – with shocking results. Producer: Tim Carter, Executive Producer: Claudia Milne Page 3 of 4 Toby Farrell The Protestant Revolution 1 (of 4) x 60’ Documentary RDF Media/BBC 4 Avid Offline. From the Reformation to the War on Terror this programme documents the story of how Protestantism made the modern world. Extraordinary People: The Four Year Old Who Ran Forty Miles 1 x 60’ Documentary Touch Productions/Five Avid Offline. Budhia Singh is no ordinary four-year old boy. He's hoping to become the youngest endurance runner in the world. But is this the tale of an extraordinary talent, or a darker one of child exploitation? Dispatches Special: How To Beat Your Kid’s Asthma 1 x 60’ Current Affairs Ch. 4 Avid Offline. Documentary special that explores the challenges of controlling your child's asthma through preventative means. Angela’s Dying Wish 1 x 60’ Observational Documentary Touch Productions/Ch. 4 Avid Offline. The personal and moving story of TV producer Angela Howard-Bent, who was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer in 2005 and chose to make a film about the last months of her life.
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