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Award winning producers of powerful, emotive and compelling social history documentaries. We're passionate about people's stories.

Bristol, UK
Joined July 2011
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Two production credits from work with @TestimonyFilms and @films_properjob having been inspired to use my research skills by the @EdinburghTVFest and @ahrcpress #TvPhD scheme @KeeleUniversity @I_W_M @BBCiPlayer @Channel4
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People have asked, how did I find the latest challenge walking 457 laps of 400m track and honestly hardest thing I have ever done foot broke 26hrs in but carried on totally worth it to remember our fallen from Afghanistan #LestWeForget #400for457 #neverquit #missioncomplete
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Lest We Forget: #SurvivingHelmand is repeated tonight at 11:15pm on BBC Two Wales and available via @BBCiPlayer.
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Want to say a massive thank you to all the comments and likes after watching #SurvivingHelmand I really do appreciate them all @BBCWales @TestimonyFilms 🙏🏻🙏🏻 and also all the others on the Documentry @HughKeir 🤙🏻
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A new inspiring documentary. 🆕 Surviving Helmand 📺 Tonight, @BBCOne Wales, 9pm
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See Steve in our #SurvivingHelmand 9pm tonight on @BBCWales or @BBCiPlayer
Former soldier and amputee, Steve Owen, has walked 457 laps of a running track over two days to remember every life lost during the Afghanistan conflict Read more: bit.ly/3CV3KKy
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2. Four inspirational characters deeply affected by personal experience of the conflict in Afghanistan tell their extraordinary stories in this inspiring film. @TheRoyalWelsh @TheParachuteReg @woodys_Lodge @Soldierscharity This is their story of #Surviving Helmand
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1.#SurvivingHelmand 9pm tonight on @BBCWales or @BBCiPlayer. Four people deeply affected by the conflict in Afghanistan tell their extraordinary stories of anguish, despair and recovery, how they coped with the consequences and have strived to help others
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1.After finishing work at veterans’ charity @woodys_Lodge today Steve Owen @Steveow2523 begins walking 457 laps of a 400m running track (113miles/ 182km) to commemorate the 457 British service personnel lost in Afghanistan. He will carry the name of 1 of those killed on each lap
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Steve features in our forthcoming #SurvivingHelmand @BBCWales on Tuesday 9 November at 9pm on BBC One Wales and BBC iPlayer, and repeated at 11:15pm on Thursday 11 November on BBC Two Wales.
#LestWeForget Welsh veteran @Steveow2523 will walk #400for457 in November in tribute to those who didn't make it home from Afghanistan.. raising funds for @woodys_Lodge @CorporalScotty. Watch his interview here 👇 planetradio.co.uk/greatest-h…
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18. #SurvivingHelmand Tuesday 9 November at 9pm on BBC One Wales @BBCWales and BBC iPlayer and repeated at 11:15pm on Thursday 11 November on BBC Two Wales @BBCWalesToday @WalesOnline @heartwalesnews @CapitalWALNews @AspectsHistory
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17. Upon her return to the U.K., Sarah campaigned to improve conditions for soldiers, and advised the army on how they could improve their approach to bereaved families. She was awarded an MBE for services to the Armed Forces and their families @Soldierscharity #SurvivingHelmand
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16. This strong and tenacious woman met Prime Minister Gordon Brown and launched a one-woman campaign to persuade the Ministry of Defence to let her go - and she succeeded. Sarah flew to Camp Bastion in June 2012, three years after her son’s death.
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15. With the war still raging, she felt she had to go to Camp Bastion where James had died to try and find some resolution to her grief. “I wanted to be where he closed his eyes for the last time. It was so overwhelmingly important to me”.
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14. In September 2009 the news that Sarah Adams feared most arrived one morning. There was the dreaded knock at the door, and uniformed men on her doorstep there to tell her that her son, James Prosser, had been killed in Afghanistan @TheRoyalWelsh @BBCWomansHour
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13...."The obligation is equally on people, communities, society” #SurvivingHelmand
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12.“It became really important for me to try and help people understand what it’s like at the bottom, but also to understand the obligation isn’t necessarily on the ill person - the person feeling crap or suicidal - to reach out for help...
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