Andy Robbins
Producer/Director
Films
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Filthy Cities
Industrial New York
Dan Snow experiences the filthy side of New York’s past bought alive with stunts, CGI, drama doc and actuality. Also directed/produced the Discovery version presented by Don Wildman. (more info)
TX BBC2/Discovery.59min
Produced and Directed
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Walking Through History: Cornwall
Tony Robinson takes a four-day trek along the coastline between Plymouth in Devon and Falmouth, learning about the thriving smuggling trade in Cornwall during the late 18th century.
TX Channel 4 Produced and Directed
47 min
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Treasures of the
Anglo Saxons
Dr Nina Ramirez reveals the world of hidden codes and messages in Anglo Saxon art. (more info)
TX BBC4 59min
Produced/Directed & Filmed
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Simon Russell Beale travels to Germany to explore how Martin Luther, the monk who started the Protestant Reformation, influenced Bach’s music. (more info)
TX BBC4 59min
Produced/Directed & Filmed
Sacred Music
Bach & The Lutheran Legacy
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Body Hits
Episode 1: Weekend Junkies
Dr John Marsden examines why so many of us use cannabis, cocaine and ecstasy. What price do our bodies pay for those lost weekends?
TX BBC3/BBC1 28min
Produced/Directed & Filmed
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Rocket Science
Episode 1
Physics teacher Mr Smith embarks on a special project to use fireworks to inspire a new love of science in a typical class of 13 year-olds. But from the start things don’t go to plan. (more info)
TX BBC2 59min
Produced/Directed & Filmed
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Being Positive
Episode 1: Dead Unlucky
A graphic look at how HIV has spread around the globe and your chances of contracting the virus in the UK.
TX BBC3 59min
Produced/Directed & Filmed
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Filthy Cities
The Slums of New New
The Discovery version of the show where host Don Wildman travels back to a seething 19th century New York to experience a city consumed by filth and corruption, with millions of immigrants crammed together in the slums of Manhattan. (more info)
TX BBC2/Discovery. 44min
Produced and Directed
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The Spying Game
Episode 2: Walls Have Ears
From microphones hidden in pens to giant fake ‘listening’ palm trees, Cold War spies reveal the art of bugging a conversation.
TX Channel 4 27min
Produced & Directed 2 episodes
Conceived and developed the series
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The Culture Show
John Virtue
A portrait of the landscape artist John Virtue as he prepares for his first exhibition at the National Gallery.
TX BBC2 7min
Produced/Directed & Filmed
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Classic Britannia
Episode 3: Adapt or Die
Final part of the series tracing the development of British classical music from 1945 to the present day.
TX BBC4 59min
Produced/Directed & Filmed
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Simon Russell Beale travels to Rome to tell the story of Palestrina, the ‘Godfather’ of Italian music.
TX BBC4 59min
Produced/Directed & Filmed
Sacred Music
Palestrina & The Popes
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Rocket Science
Episode 2
Mr Smith struggles to keep the fireworks project on track. With school trips to America and Scotland coming up, bad boy Charlie faces being left behind. (more info)
TX BBC2 59min
Produced/Directed & Filmed
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The Spying Game
Episode 1: Spies in the Skies
CIA and KGB spies reveal how they fought the Cold War with satellites that could read a newspaper from space and planes that could travel faster than a bullet.
TX Channel 4 27min
Produced & Directed 2 episodes
Conceived and developed the series
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Body Hits
Episode 5: Smart Drugs
A glimpse into the extreme world of California’s ‘psychonaughts’ - underground chemists who invent and test powerful mind-altering drugs on themselves
TX BBC3 27min
Produced/Directed & Filmed
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Being Positive
Episode 2: Dead Lucky
New drugs have slashed the AIDS death rates in the West yet millions in Africa are still dying. With the discovery that 1 in 10 people are immune to HIV, why is a cure or a vaccine still decades away?
TX BBC3 59min
Produced/Directed & Filmed
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Rocket Science
Episode 3
Mr Smith organises a school trip to China to see how fireworks are made and the Royal Artillery help him stage an explosive physics lesson. Finally the class have to help design and build one of the biggest displays the city of Liverpool has ever seen. (more info)
TX BBC2 59min
Produced/Directed & Filmed
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Walking Through History: Stonehenge
Tony Robinson takes a four-day trek along the coastline between Plymouth in Devon and Falmouth, learning about the thriving smuggling trade in Cornwall during the late 18th century.
TX Channel 4 59min
Directed & Filmed
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The Richest Poet in
England
Just over 10 years ago Felix Dennis, one of the richest men in the country, decided to he wanted to be a best selling poet. but halfway through making this film, the man who has everything was been diagnosed with cancer.
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TX Sky Arts 59min