How we turned charity shopping and online auctions into a BBC daytime format
Shift the Thrift series director Tom Cunningham on translating the thrill of bagging and reselling a bargain for the screen
How I turned a career dry spell and a chaotic podcast into an unexpectedly raw documentary
Shot on a phone, BBC2’s Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me offers an unvarnished look at its star and the industry, says director Simon Draper
How we took Ben Fogle to China
Director Freddie Martin on turning tightly-controlled access into an epic journey across an incredible country for 5
Ian Katz: the outsider who faced an uphill task
Outgoing C4 programming boss delivered more successes than many credit him for – but he never quite got the indie sector on side, writes Chris Curtis
Confidence grows as indies learn to adapt
‘Some of the genuinely existential threats facing production companies in recent years seem to have eased’
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
