Border Country – When Ireland Was Divided – Available on BBC iPlayer this Thursday
The border between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland has meandered across rural Irish farmlands since its creation in 1922. Throughout this time film crews and journalists have descended upon the border, attempting to understand its absurdities and contradictions – and the turmoil it can cause.
“Heart-breaking, unflinching, elegiac TV that sounds a clarion call for social change” The Observer reviews our latest documentary on knife crime
“Heart-breaking, unflinching, elegiac TV that sounds a clarion call for social change” The Observer reviews our latest documentary on knife crime
Producer Jess Winteringham discusses the complex issues raised in our latest doc ‘Stabbed: Britain’s Knife Crime Crisis’
Knife crime was rarely out of the headlines in 2018. As incidents in England and Wales have risen to their highest level in eight years, victims, families, young people and politicians, have been calling for solutions to the problem.
Stabbed: Britain’s Knife Crime Crisis – BBC One, 9pm Thursday 21st March 2019
In this film, Duwayne meets victims’ families and friends as they cope with the aftermath of a loved one being killed and the ensuing fight for justice, he engages with the perpetrators to understand what is making more and more young people turn to knives, and he explores what is being done to stem the violence. Along the way, he revisits his own past, facing up to the trauma that has come to define him.
