Documentary Director and Producer
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The Doctor Who Gave Up Drugs

Flatpack Empire
2017 | BBC2

The Doctor Who gave up drugs | Shooting Assistant Producer

2016 | BBC1, 9pm | Raw TV, 2 x 60’                                                                          

Britain is addicted to prescription drugs. They’re doing us more harm than good, the evidence for their efficacy is wafer-thin and they’re costing the NHS a fortune. It’s a medical crisis – and Dr Chris Van Tulleken is determined to do something about it. So he’s setting up a radical new drug-free clinic in a busy GP surgery. For three months, he’s going to treat illnesses without antibiotics, control pain without painkillers, and wean some of Britain’s most drug-dependent patients off their “life-saving” drug regimes. Instead of giving his patients medicine, he’s going to take their medicine away.

Assisting the team, I cross-shot actuality, shot stylised time-lapses and set up specialist factual shoots including medical experiments.

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credits

Assistant Producer: Elliot Swinburn | Producer: Lizzie Bolton | Director: Jack Rampling | Series Director: Emeka Onono | Exec: Dominique Walker


An opening eye opening insight into our pill-popping culture
— The Telegraph ★★★★
Dr Chris van Tulleken’s worthwhile campaign to get doctors to prescribe fewer pills is important
— The Times
Troubling, lively and possibly epoch-changing
— Euan Ferguson, The Guardian
This has it all – engaging presenter, shrewd approach, touching case studies and radical implications. So relax: we’re in safe hands
— Radio Times