After graduating from City University with an MA in TV Journalism, Pandora joined Rogan Productions as a Researcher in December 2018 and has since worked across development and a forthcoming 3-part series commissioned by Channel 4. We caught up with Pandora to get the inside scoop on launching her career in TV and her top tips on becoming a great researcher.
As Brexit negotiations and discussions over the Irish backstop continue, Border Country: When Ireland was Divided gives a timely insight into the stories of the people whose lives were, and still are, affected by the hard border between Ireland and the UK.
Border Country: When Ireland was Divided, brings 100 years of archival footage together with the stories of people whose lives have been affected by this crucial dividing line.
Our fixed rig documentary #TheGunShop has been nominated for a Mid-America Emmy Award in the Documentary-Cultural category. The Gun Shop was broadcast in the UK in 2016 on Channel 4, and then across the US on Illinois Public Media last year. The film gained access to a small, family-run shop in Michigan, documenting the many and varied customers who come through the shop’s doors and revealing the relationship that everyday Americans have with their guns.
Channel 4 has commissioned Rogan Productions to produce a groundbreaking three-part documentary series on Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Filmed across Russia, America, Europe and the UK, this landmark series will show how Putin brought his knowledge of spy-craft to define the presidency of a nuclear power. Landing 20 years into his rule, this will be the definitive account of Putin’s power and how it has changed the modern world.
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO PAUL DACRE (w/t)
Coming in 2021 – CHANNEL 4
Paul Dacre lifts the lid on 26 years of being at the centre of politics, culture and newspapers as editor of the Daily Mail
Our latest documentary for BBC Africa Eye Bringing Down Jammeh is now available to watch via YouTube.
Yahya Jammeh was one of Africa’s most feared and brutal dictators, ruling Gambia with an iron fist for over two decades. But in 2016 the impossible happened: he lost his own rigged election. This is the story of the men and women who challenged a dictator and, against all the odds, defeated him in a democratic process.
Last month James Rogan joined a panel of documentary filmmakers and producers for a BAFTA masterclass chaired by Kate Townsend, Director of Original Documentaries at Netflix. The panel delved into the fast changing factual landscape, to analyse the craft of storytelling and discuss creative freedom and collaboration.
Our latest BBC Panorama shows the impact of the financial squeeze on vulnerable people and the harsh truth of what that means for those needing care. In the second episode of #CrisisinCare Alison Holt, BBC social affairs correspondent, shows the consequences of a broken social care system, and the pressures felt across the board as our population ages.
With more and more care homes closing, and a national shortage of carers, in part two of Crisis in Care, BBC social affairs correspondent Alison Holt meets vulnerable people threatened with selling their homes to pay for their care, and their families battling the funding system.
