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RUDEBOY: The Story of Trojan Records

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The Rolling Stones Olé Olé Olé! : A Trip Across Latin America

This exhilarating rock 'n' roll road movie follows The Rolling Stones on their 2016 tour of Latin America, climaxing with their historic concert in Havana, Cuba.

Developed key stories and sequences for shooting across six countries in Latin America with the band.  Responsible for managing both logistics and editorial and liaising with team on location with very high profile artists.

Story Producer

Director: Paul Dugdale: Producer: Sam Bridger

Executive Producer: Julie Jakobek

JA Digital - theatrical release

TIFF opening film 2016

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24 Hours in A&E - Channel 4

The RTS award-winning documentary series continues. It follows patients treated in the same 24-hour period at St George’s Hospital in south west London, which has one of the most advanced and busiest A&E departments in the world; a place where stories of life, love and loss unfold every day.

Producer on Series 10 (34 episodes).

Executive Producer - Spencer Kelly

Series Producers - Bruce Fletcher, Alex Sunderland, Jackie Waldock

The Garden Productions - weekly tx from Tuesday 20th October 2015

Guardian review here

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Inside the Ku Klux Klan- Channel 4

Investigative observational documentary with unprecedented access to the infamous white supremacist organisation.  The documentary follows the Klan as their membership grows in the wake of the Ferguson shooting in St Louis.   Working on location in Texas and rural Indiana in two person team, responsible for fixing and working with volatile contributors.  Documentary attracted record viewing figures for the slot and trended on twitter.

PD: Daniel Vernon.  Executive Producer: Nina Davies

Read Guardian review here

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Mandela, My Dad and Me - Cinematic release

In 2014, Elba released ‘mi Mandela’, an album inspired by his time researching and portraying Nelson Mandela in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. However, just before Elba was due to leave for South Africa and Mali to record the album, his father sadly passed away. This further inspired the music he and his fellow collaborators sought to create. While working simultaneously on the album and promoting his film, Elba had BAFTA award-winning director Daniel Vernon document his movements. The film they had originally intended to create was centred on the recording of the album, but has since evolved into something deeper, due to the loss of his father and the personal journey through grief that Elba happened to be embarking on at that time.

Director: Daniel Vernon

Associate Producer: Vivienne Perry

Executive Producers: Idris Elba, Nicholas Yearwood, Derren Lawford, Alex Connock, Rick Murray and Jeremy Lee

Co-financed by Green Door Pictures and media advisory firm Bob & Co

Distributed by Content Media.

Premiere at BFI on 7th April 2015

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Junior Doctors: Blood, Sweat and Tears

Popular BBC Three series Junior Doctors returned with a brand new group of recently qualified young medics looking to carve a career path in the highly competitive profession.

Story producer and edit producer Managed storylines for BBC 3’s high rating 8 part series. Managed sensitive consent and led story team Consulted with 4 x shooting teams on location.

Story and Edit Producer

PRODUCTION TITLE: Junior Doctors

COMPANY: BBC Studios

LINE MANAGER: Lucy Shepherd

PROGRAMME LENGTH: 30 minutes

SERIES: 4

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Don't Stop the Music - Channel 4

Internationally-renowned pianist James Rhodes is passionate about the power of music to change lives and is shocked at the state of music education in the UK.  A primetime Channel 4 series launches nationwide instrument amnesty campaign.

The series:

A new two-part Channel 4 series –Don’t Stop the Music – follows James as he trials the amnesty in a primary school in Basildon, investigates the issues, gathers allies and gears up to go nationwide. St Teresa’s is in special measures and had a music budget of precisely zero pounds. Resources are already stretched to the limit and the school is determined to focus on numeracy and literacy and turn around its academic record.  James wants to convince staff that music lessons can help to achieve that goal, not distract from it. He wants to show through direct action just what putting an instrument into the hands of a child can do. 

The campaign:

In 2011, the government’s National Plan for Music said that “Children from all backgrounds and every part of England should have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument”. But James has found that for thousands of kids, that’s simply not happening – so he’s on a personal mission to persuade the government to fulfil the promise made in their plan, and ensure that in the long-term, his amnesty isn’t needed.

Series Director/ Producer - Tom Coveney

Producer - Vivienne Perry

Location Producer - Rose Walton

Line Producer - Larissa Hickey

Multiplatform Executive Producer - Annabel McLeod

Executive Producer - Jeremy Lee

Fresh One Productions - tx 9th September, 16th September 2014

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Rewind... The Tube - Channel 4

As part of Channel 4's 80's night - a documentary exploring the most influential and iconoclastic music show of the decade - The Tube.  Setting the programme in its social and political context, the documentary features interviews with key talent of the era and exclusive footage.

Director/ Producer - Nico Wasserman

Assistant Producer - Vivienne Perry

Line Manager - Aleid Channing

Archive Researcher - Andy Rossiter

Executive Producer - Jeremy Lee

Fresh One Productions - tx 20th September 2013

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Global Development: Mental Health - The Guardian

A special documentary Guardian development podcast with reports from Sri Lanka.  I ask what needs to change to improve outcomes for people living with a mental health problem both in Sri Lanka and elsewhere in the developing world?

Produced and Presented by Vivienne Perry

Listen to the podcast here

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Prisoner Soul - BBC Radio 4

In the 1960s and early 1970s, a number of U.S. prisons allowed inmates to form bands and produce commercially available LPs. Today, many of those records are collectors' items.

Gary Younge tracks down some of the men who were in these groups, finding out how the music shaped their lives and hearing from those who supported this progressive initiative in the face of the old punitive regime.

Gary travels to Huntsville, Texas, where a bespoke studio was built within the prison. Visiting the maximum security Wynne Unit, Gary is joined by the scheme's former music director, Harley Rex. This is the first time Harley has returned to the unit in over thirty years and he details the scale and impact of the project. Outside the prison's high walls, Gary and Harley meet ex-inmate John Indo who explains how the music affected the 17 years he served inside.

Over on the East Coast, in New Jersey's Rahway prison, Reginald Haynes was another inmate with a similar initiative. Reginald was spotted at a convict talent show by established music producer George Kerr and a group now known as The Legendary Escorts was formed. Reginald tells the extraordinary story of how the group's first album was produced, and of the changes the scheme would bring to his later life on the outside.

Back in Texas Gary meets the local people who live near the prison and finds out what impact commercially releasing the music had on people's perceptions of the prisoners. He'll hear how inmates performed locally, including at the always popular prison rodeo.

Presenter - Gary Younge

Producer - Vivienne Perry

Executive Producer - Andrea Rose

A Like It Is Production tx 13th April 2013

Gary's article here

Radio Times Critic's choice, The Telegraph  

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How Clubbing Changed The World - Channel 4

Presented by Idris Elba - a 2 hour special examining how club culture has impacted life in the U.K and around the world.  With contributions from David Guetta, Will.I.Am, Frankie Knuckles, Marshall Jefferson, Moby, Andrew Weatherall, DJ Pierre and Lord Michael Howard to name but a few...

Trended no 1 on twitter in U.K for duration of TX

Presenter - Idris Elba

Director - Sam Bridger

Producer - Holly Murray

Associate Producer - Vivienne Perry

Line Manager - Jane Greaves

Archive Researcher - Derek Ham

Executive Producer - Jeremy Lee

Fresh One Productions - tx 24th August 2012

Previews from The Radio Times and The Independent

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Is Mum Enough? - BBC 5 Live

A great experience making 'Is Mum Enough?' for BBC Radio 5 Live, presented by Reggie Yates.  The documentary went out on Easter Monday 2012 and got a brilliant response on Stephen Nolan's phone in...People really connected with Reggie's honest questioning of just what you gain and miss out on, growing up in a single parent family.

Soon to be repeated on BBC Radio 1's Sunday Surgery in reversion...

Presenter - Reggie Yates

Producer - Vivienne Perry

Executive Producer - Jo Meek

Commissioned by Jonathan Wall

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London Lives Series - The Guardian

Tommy Godwin 1948 Olympic Medallist: part of a series telling the stories of extraordinary individuals and the capital.  

Commissioned by The Guardian in conjunction with Visit London.  

This audio slideshow celebrates Tommy Godwin who was a medallist in the 1948 Olympics.  At 92 years old I convinced him to come down to the Herne Hill velodrome and re-live some amazing moments.

Photos by Martin Godwin, slideshow edited with Jim Powell

Watch and listen here

Watch and listen to the other London Lives in the series:

Stan Middleton on the Puppet Theatre Barge

Aerial peformer Daniela Essart

Jem Finer and Longplayer

Bandstand Busking with Anika Mottershaw 

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An African Asian Affair - BBC Radio 4

Out in Uganda recording interviews with locals for the radio documentary I produced for BBC Radio 4 looking at how the relationship between African Asians has changed with the country, forty years after their expulsion by Idi Amin.

Presenter - Vishva Samani

Producer - Vivienne Perry 

Executive Producer - Andrea Rose

A Like It Is Production - tx December 2011

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Gone Too Soon: The Story of J Dilla - BBC Radio 1Xtra

Broadcast as part of the Black History Month series 'Gone Too Soon' and retransmitted in the week of Dilla's birthday in February 2012 on BBC Radio 1.  

I co-produced this documentary with Ele Beattie and it seems to have connected with a lot of heads.  Contributors include: Mos Def, Dave from De La Soul, Questlove, Busta Rhymes, Erykah Badu, Robert Glasper, Dwele, House Shoes, Waajeed, T3, Illa J and of course, Ma Dukes.  An honour to make.

Presenter - Benji B

Producers - Vivienne Perry and Ele Beattie

Executive producer - Anna Harrison

A Unique Production - tx October 2011

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Development Podcast Producer - The Guardian

Guardian Focus podcast: on the famine in Somalia.

The Horn of Africa is experiencing a food crisis and the UN has declared famine in parts of Somalia. Thsi podcast asks, what does the relief effort look like? And what comes next?

Presenter - Madeleine Bunting

Producer - Vivienne Perry

Researcher - Claire Provost

I regularly produce podcasts for the Guardian's Development site.  

Recent podcasts have focussed on the independence of South Sudan, Population Growth, Gender Equality and Fair Trade.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/audio/2011/aug/18/famine-somalia

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New Europe series - The Guardian 

A four-part podcast series to accompany The Guardian's New Europe Season.

Jon Henley discusses how each country was affected by the economic crash of 2008 and how well it's recovering.  He's joined by correspondents and commentators - as well as hearing first hand testimonies.

Presenter - Jon Henley

Series producer - Vivienne Perry

To listen to the four parts click on Spain, Germany, Poland and France.