Brief biography and awards

 

TV, BOOKS AND FILM

Most recent telly stuff:

Steeltown Murders documentary – ITV production for the BBC to be broadcast in 2023

Producer, Cold Case Forensics – three part series for the ITV network – January and February 2023

Producer, Together Stronger episode 2 – BBC Wales – November 2022

Producer, The Pembrokeshire Murders: Catching the Gameshow Killer (ITV network, 2021)

Producer/director, Lest We Forget (ITV Wales, 2019) (New York Festival Gold Award)

Most recent books: Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule (Dutton Books, Penguin Random House) and Shadow Warriors: Daring Missions By Women of the OSS and SOE with Gordon Thomas, which has been published in five countries. Shadow Warriors is currently under option to Accolade Films – so who knows! Also, have a couple of film scripts with producers.

Over the years I’ve written and produced quite a lot of TV. Honoured to have two New York Festival Gold Awards and a BAFTA Cymru award. 

I produced/directed This Is Not A Poem, a short film with Cameroon-born poet Eric Ngalle Charles, which played at a number of festivals including Zebra in Berlin.

I am an experienced ghost-writer. Work includes The Death of Justice, which was presented at the Hay Literary Festival; A Life on the Edge, with mountaineer and adventurer Eric Jones; and Aberfan with Gaynor Madgwick. As a journalist I have contributed to many national and international newspapers including The Times, The Observer, The Wall Street Journal; most of the leading newspapers in Ireland, including the Irish Independent; and to the investigative pages of Private Eye.

I wrote six titles in the ‘Wales and the World’ series of non-fiction books for children and schools.

Thanks to everyone who has contacted me about my books.

 

Awards:

Winner: Gold Award at New York Festivals Film and TV Awards 2020 ‘Lest We Forget’ (produced and directed for ITV Wales)

Winner: Gold Award at New York Festivals Film and TV Awards 2018 ‘Beti and David: Lost for Words’ (BBC; producer with Dinah Jones and Will Davies)

Winner: BAFTA Cymru Best Current Affairs Programme ‘The Bullseye Killer’ (ITV Wales; producer with Jon Hill and Mike Talbot)

New York Festivals Best Radio Programmes in the World Bronze Award for ‘Aberfan: A Survivor’s Journey’ (produced for BBC Radio Wales)

Winner: Guild of Health Writers’ Best Broadcast Programme 2012 ‘Living With Dementia’ (ITV Wales; producer)

Winner: Wishing Shelf Award Non-Fiction Award 2011 I Fought Them All (author)

Winner: The People’s Book Awards Best Book 2014 The Death of Justice (co-author)

Runner-up: Commission for Racial Equality ‘Race in the Media’ UK Award 2002 Body of Work (print)

Runner-up: Amnesty International (Wales) Media Award (2002) Body of Work (print)

Shortlisted: Beti and David: Lost for Words was nominated for two BAFTA Cymru awards and a Celtic Media Festival Award.