50 Years of Woodstock Festival
Reading about 50th anniversary of Woodstock reminded me of this BBC Witness programme I made about Drop City. This was a commune set up in Colorado in 1967. It was …
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Strangers for Hire : Japan
In Japan, capitalism has found a cure for loneliness – sort of. There are a number of agencies offering ‘friend’ services. This is not in any way dodgy. This is …
Trinidad’s solution to crime
An ambitious project to inject hundreds of thousands of US dollars into sport in an attempt to persuade young people away from crime led me to Trinidad. I talked to …
Benghazi, Libya – Freedom and Culture
A year after the overthrow of Gadaffi, I travelled to Benghazi to find out how peoples’ lives were changing and found that cultural and artistic expression were flourishing. Football has …
Poverty and the 2012 Olympics
“We never asked the rest of the world to come here, but seeing as you’re coming let’s make a party of it – involve us, just get us involved!” says …
A Young Life in Crime
One of the first documentaries I made for the BBC World Service News was from my home city of Birmingham in the West Midlands, UK. It’s about the lives of …
Jamaica’s Godfather : ‘Dudus’
I lived and reported from Kingston, Jamaica in 2003 and 2004, it was brilliant in many ways- going dancing to Passa Passa, Weddy Wednesdays, Asylum, Sumfest was great. But it …
Chicago Dog Fighting
Ventured into south-side Chicago and west of the city to Austin for my doc which was nominated for a Foreign Press Award and picked up a runner up prize, about …
