Television patience

Fisherman’s Friends

Source: Steve Schofield

As 2,000 eager delegates gather at Sheffield Doc/Fest, award-winning  producer/director David Pearson recounts the experience of making the heart warming story of a new ‘buoy band’ with a collective age of 560, and explains why real ob docs deliver stories unlike anything else.

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