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What’s the Point of Forgiveness?

2011/60’/BBC1
Historian Bettany Hughes looks at the concept and practice of forgiveness from pre-Christianity, through the Crusades and Reformation, to modern examples including Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa, and the 9/11 attacks.
Director: Jonathan Mayo.

Jet! When Britain Ruled the Skies

2012/60’/BBC4
After the war, Britain had an aircraft industry ahead of its time, producing world-class military and civil jet aircraft. This is the story of those machines, and the people that flew them.
Director: James Millar Executive Producer: William Lyons

The Lost Gospels

2006/90’/BBC4
Peter Owen Jones travels the Middle East, Rome and England in search of evidence for the seventy or so texts that could have been contenders for a place in the New Testament, but were deemed too heretical or politically inconvenient.
Producer/Director: Anna Cox
RTS Award: Neil Harvey, Director of Photography: Oustanding Achievement in Craft

How God Made the English

2012/60’/BBC2
Diarmaid MacCulloch on the bearing of religious belief on the history of the English character, from Bede to Blair. His polemic explores an English self-belief that stems back to the chosen people of the Old Testament.
Director: Anna Cox. Executive Producer: Jean Claude Bragard

Combat Trains

2015/4 x 50’/History Channel

Four episodes in this wide ranging series on railways and their use in conflict. From the American Civil War, and both World Wars, to nuclear testing in the Cold War, dozens of stories were covered including the Kindertransport, Ambulance Trains, Churchill’s escapades in the Boer War and the story of the only Holocaust transport to be escaped from.
Produced by Woodcut Media: Series Producer Jenni Day, Producer Jonathan Mayo, Excutive Producer Kate Beal

Rome – A History of the Eternal City

2012/60’/BBC4
Simon Sebag Montefiore views the Eternal City from the perspective of its pagan past, which informs its layout and rituals that are still seen today.
Director: Anna Cox. Executive Producer: Mike Smith

The Most Dangerous Man in Tudor England

2013/60’/BBC2
Melvyn Bragg’s landmark film on the martyred translator of the Bible into English. Part of the Tudor series of documentaries for BBC2. Dir: Anna Cox. Exec Prod: Mike Smith.

Byzantium – A Tale of Three Cities

2013/60’/BBC4
Simon Sebag Montefiore tells the history of one of the greatest holy imperial cities, and its transformation from Byzantium to Constantinople to Istanbul. Prod Dir Anna Cox. Exec Prod: Mike Smith

1984: A Sikh Story

2010/60’/BBC1
25 years ago, the storming of The Golden Temple, most sacred to Sikhs, by the Indian Army led to protests around the world, and the assasination of Indira Gandhi. Sonia Deol unravels the harrowing events of this year. Merit Award, Sandford St Martin Trust 2010.
Director: Anna Cox. Executive Producer: Tommy Nagra.

Gandhi: The Rise to Fame

2009/60’/BBC2
Episode 2 of 3. Mishal Husain traces the life and mission of this most famous of 20th century figures. Episode 2 follows his practice of Satyagraha in India, and the dramatic impact of the Salt March on his campaign.