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Show of a lifetime: the final chapter of Up

70 Up concludes TV’s longest-running documentary. Heather Fallon finds out what made the project so special

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How we approached traumatised survivors to capture candid testimony

Britain’s Forgotten Girls director Alessia Camoirano Bruges on making a sensitive documentary about trafficking, grooming and exploitation

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How Cornelia Street Productions took Sandi Toksvig on a bookish tour of Ireland

Director David Kerr on making Sandi’s Ireland: A Literary Journey

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Too much true crime is suffocating the documentary sector

Exec producer Neil Grant reveals his disillusionment at the glut of predictable films and his fears for the genre’s future