Project Description
TV Production Work
LINSEY WYNTON – WRITE HAND WOMAN
I’m an experienced TV producer and director and development producer. I’ve made regional and national current affairs and factual documentaries across all the main broadcasters (ITV, Channel 4, BBC), including award-winning and award-nominated programmes.
Many of the programmes I have worked on have been commissioned from pitches I came up with. My programmes have reached audiences of up to 5.5million and many have had outstanding press reviews.
I’ve made campaigning stories that have led to policy change and investigations. I am good at finding original, compelling case studies and have secured headline-grabbing interviews. I have produced and interviewed all sorts of people, from celebrities and politicians to prisoners and the homeless.
I can self-shoot, think up innovative stunts and eye-catching graphics and I have coordinated large scale public events.
TV Production work examples
BBC1, Producer: Letting Go (October Films). This film about young people with learning disabilities leaving home was presented by Rosa Monckton (Princess Diana’s friend) whose daughter has Down’s Syndrome. This won Best Factual Programme at the Cultural Diversity Awards. It also got great ratings and reviews.
ITV1, Tonight, Producer & Director: From Bin to Banquet. This half-hour programme followed a film I made called Past its Sell by Date that questioned the accuracy of date labels on food, which secured 5.5 million viewers. For From Bin to Banquet I recruited celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson to cook meals for the masses at London’s Borough Market made from food found in supermarket bins.
ITV1, Tonight, Producer & Director: Heart of the Matter. Two investigations into the mass prescribing of statins, the cholesterol-lowering drugs, and their side effects. We showed cholesterol can be lowered as effectively by diet and exercise. A follow-up came after a huge response from viewers reporting statin side-effects. One said: “Your programme saved my life.” Later the MHRA issued new warning leaflets.
ITV1, Tonight, Producer & Director: Kevin Whately on Dementia. A touching presenter-lead film nominated for a Mind Media Award. Actor Kevin Whately, whose Mum had Alzheimer’s, asked why thousands of people are denied anti-dementia drugs, while looking at therapies that ease the symptoms of dementia. Press reviews were outstanding.
Channel 4, Cutting Edge, Producer: Chasing the Cumbrian Killer (Mentorn Media). A Cutting Edge on Derrick Bird’s murder spree in Cumbria that left 13 people dead. I worked 16-hour days while heavily pregnant and got the first interview with the Bird family.
