Storytelling & Documentaries
Overview & Featured Projects -
Documentaries and artist-led factual storytelling built around strong access, emotional truth and cultural relevance. The work ranges from landmark archive-led music documentaries to more contemporary, issue-driven films with talent at the centre, helping contributors such as Professor Green and Nicola Roberts tell personal, socially important stories with clarity and impact.
Across these projects, I worked closely with talent, broadcasters and creative teams to develop the idea, secure the commission and deliver the film from end to end.
The Who - Quadrophenia (Can You See the Real Me?)
Role - Executive Producer
BBC Four Commission - 1 × 70’ Documentary
Overview -
A feature-length documentary exploring the creation, meaning and enduring cultural legacy of Quadrophenia - The Who’s 1973 rock opera and one of the defining concept albums in British music. Built around themes of youth, identity, alienation and self-discovery, the album went on to become far more than a record: it inspired a landmark feature film and has since been reinterpreted for the stage, including a Sadler’s Wells ballet adaptation, confirming its status as one of the most influential and durable storyworlds in British popular culture.
Story -
Can You See the Real Me? tells the story of Quadrophenia through the eyes of Pete Townshend, who opens his home studio and personal archive to revisit what he called “the last great album The Who ever made.” Moving between personal reflection, unseen material and journeys back to the places that shaped the record, the film explores how Quadrophenia became both a defining creative statement and a deeply personal act of self-examination.
Built around rare access, first-hand testimony and archive treated as emotional evidence rather than nostalgia, the documentary reveals an album shaped by ambition, vulnerability and creative pressure, and one that has since become a cornerstone of British cultural history.
Impact -
5.5M viewers across initial UK broadcast and repeats
65+ territories in international sales
Focus Award recognition for Best Use of Archive
Nationwide US cinema release
Nicola Roberts - The Truth About Tanning
Role - Executive Producer
BBC Three Commission - 1 × 60’
Overview -
A contemporary author-led documentary for BBC Three, following Nicola Roberts as she investigates the UK’s tanning culture and the dangerous pressures it places on young people. Built around Nicola’s own experience of growing up feeling insecure about her pale skin, the film combined personal testimony, social investigation and public-health campaigning to tell a story that felt both intimate and urgent.
The Story -
The documentary followed Nicola as she explored the extremes young people were going to in pursuit of the “perfect tan”, from excessive fake tanning and heavy sunbed use to unregulated tanning injections. Alongside her own reflections on confidence, appearance and self-image, she met young people caught up in tanning obsession, families affected by skin cancer, and medical experts explaining the long-term consequences of those behaviours.
Nicola was not simply fronting an issue, she had lived it. That gave the documentary real emotional credibility and helped it move beyond celebrity factual into a sharper piece of socially driven storytelling. Her journey took her from personal reflection to Westminster, where she met Andy Burnham and joined the growing call for legislation to protect under-18s from the dangers of sunbed use.
Impact -
Broadcast on BBC Three with additional exposure on BBC One.
Helped amplify the national conversation around tanning culture and under-18 sunbed use.
Contributed to the wider public momentum around the Sunbeds (Regulation) Act 2010, which banned sunbed use by under-18s in England and Wales.
Positioned Nicola Roberts as a credible, author-led voice on a socially important issue
The Nation’s Favourite Abba Song
Role - Executive Producer for Globe Studio's
ITV1 Commission - 1 × 90’
Overview -
The launch episode of a major new ITV music strand that counted down the UK’s favourite ABBA songs, combining viewer voting with archive performance, celebrity testimony and new reflections from Björn Ulvaeus and Frida Lyngstad. More than a simple countdown, the programme celebrated ABBA’s extraordinary cultural impact in Britain and framed their catalogue through memory, fandom and enduring pop influence.
The Story -
Viewers voted online from a shortlist of ABBA’s UK singles, with “The Winner Takes It All” ultimately taking the top spot. The programme blended iconic archive with contributions from artists, actors and broadcasters including Meryl Streep, Julie Walters, Pierce Brosnan, Robin Gibb and Michelle Williams, alongside new memories from Björn and Frida reflecting on the songs and ABBA’s relationship with British audiences.
Built as a broad-reach entertainment format with genuine music credibility, the film balanced warmth, nostalgia and authority, using archive and first-hand reflection to turn a populist countdown into a more emotionally resonant portrait of ABBA’s legacy in the UK.
Impact -
5.66M live viewers on ITV1 | 21.5% share on first broadcast.
Featured new contributions from Björn and Frida.
Winner voted by the public: “The Winner Takes It All.”
Helped position the format as a large-scale, archive-led music special with mainstream reach and strong cultural resonance.