Previous Productions
Huw Haul
The Sun is the biggest object in our Solar System but in this programme we go looking for some of the smallest objects that occur in the harshest environment close to the Sun's surface. Huw Haul is a documentary featuring the solar scientist Huw Morgan as he observes the most recent total solar eclipse from a tent in the middle of the Libyan Sahara Desert, takes measurements from observatories on a volcano in Hawaii and working with his colleagues makes some new discoveries about the origins of our Solar System. The film makes the science accessible and conveys some amazing facts that people will remember and talk about in the future. Another version of this film, called 'Follow the Sun' which concentrates more on the Solar astronomy team based at the University of Hawaii, will also be available in English for international distribution later in the year.
A Life of Death
“I actually woke up one morning and wanted to paint coffins, I don’t know why – I just did!...... It’s one of those things”.
Carol Aston is an unusual undertaker to say the least. This series of four programmes follows her over a year as she visits the Festival of Death in Moscow, and as her own design for a wicker coffin, based on an old Greek boat, is made in Poland. We see her prepare colourful coffins and bury people, as well as make all the arrangements for her own funeral; including visiting the chief mourner in full Victorian style, the purchase of a monkey puzzle tree and the hire of a horse drawn glass hearse, to ensure she goes out in style!
The Lady of Glanusk
Shan Legge Bourke is the Lord Lieutenant for the county of Powys and Lady in Waiting to the Princess Royal. This series of four programmes follows Shan and her family through each season. The Legge Bourke’s live on the Glan Usk estate near Brecon. This series reveals an intimate portrait of the contemporary life of the Welsh aristocracy, the conflict between public and private life, duty to the monarch and duty to the family, the maintenance of a large inherited estate in today’s economic climate and how Shan’s mother came to blow up the stately home. 
In one programme for example we see how Shan is in charge of all her son’s wedding arrangements. This includes everything, from the flower arrangements at the family church on the estate to the wiring for the chandeliers in a marquee in the garden. Everyone, including husband Bill, knows Shan is in charge. At the same time Shan has to drive for over an hour to the other side of the county to represent the Queen by investing a new High Sheriff, changing into her clothes in a lay by on the way. In other programmes we see how she prepares for a Royal visit and greets Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall, takes the salute from soldiers in Brecon Barracks and does the washing up after an open day on the estate gardens.
Stairway to Heaven - A Machynlleth Story
For ITV Wales, transmitted St.David's Day 2003. Written and presented by Mike Parker(author of The Rough Guide to Wales), 'Stairway to Heaven' is a stylish, humorous and cheerful "visual essay" about the town of Machynlleth, exactly 600 years after Welsh rebel Prince Owain Glyndwr held his most celebrated Parliament in the town. Machynlleth, more than anywhere else in Wales, is associated with Glyndwr and his rebellion. 
If Machynlleth remains the most potent emblem of Glyndwr, it is also highly emblematic in other ways, and the programme explores these too. It is the town at the very epicentre of Wales (the reason, doubtless, that it was picked by Glyndwr for his Parliament), straddling the tribal borders that have remained constant in Welsh life and culture for over a thousand years. It is also a very modern totem. Many comparable towns in rural Wales have seen seismic changes in the past thirty years.
Farming and manufacturing have declined, tourism and emergent "alternative" lifestyles have boomed. Thanks to the arrival of the nearby Centre for Alternative Technology in 1974, Machynlleth has had to adapt to this new life far earlier than many other towns, and it is much further ahead in terms of integration. Increasing numbers of small Welsh towns are looking towards local specialisms for their future prosperity. Machynlleth is well at the forefront of this thinking. This is a tale not just of one town, but about Wales as a whole - indeed, rural communities everywhere. 'Stairway to Heaven - A Machynlleth Story' is a splendid visual feast.
We see Machynlleth's 712 year old weekly market, the annual Medieval Market and November's awesome Lantern Parade and Bonfire Night, which fuses together the entire community in celebration both of the Celtic New Year and Guy Fawkes night!
