Marc Ramsay Email & Phone Number

• Wrote, produced and directed a short form television documentary for BBC history as a pilot for full length programme for BBC Four.• Archive consultant to the BBC’s Natural History Unity commissioned to develop an archive strategy to maximise the use and benefit of historic, current and future NHU content.

• Developed and implemented a curated approach for on-demand archive programmes for BBC Four. • Commissioned digital projects and content for the BBC’s entertainment, drama and factual departments.• Produced and directed two history documentaries for BBC Two’s archaeology series ‘Hidden Treasure.’• Executive produced cross-media content for key BBC brands (including The Apprentice, Being Human, Have I Got News for You , Robin Hood) from development of scope and production to delivery and deployment.• Established and managed relationships between the BBC and world-leading external partners including the British Museum, National Media Museum, Microsoft Live Labs and Flickr.• Established and led the ‘Indie Unit” to create clearer lines of communication, more effective coordination and a stronger sense of partnership between external organisations and the BBC. This was in response to identifying the particular challenges that arise on digital projects with multiple internal and external stakeholders.• Led a BBC online History team spearheading a new initiative aimed at providing a dynamic and structured online learning environment for history enthusiasts. • Developed and produced innovative projects for BBC Learning

• Reading treatments and scripts for MEDIA and advising as to their viability with regard to funding and development.

• Over 15 hours of programming identifying, analysing and commenting on key changes to the law and the UK justice system• Interviews with the leading lawyers, judges and law-makers.• Subjects ranged from the weightier issues arising from changes to criminal law and amendments to the Immigration Act to the implications of the Dangerous Dogs Act and the introduction of mediated divorce settlements. • Programmes were interview-led with reconstructions and dramatisations

• Wrote a pilot storyline as part of a successful short listed pitch to Channel Four for a new health series. The pilot “The NHS at Night” was filmed as two seperate programmes and transmitted as part of the first series of ‘The Pulse’• Developed and produced several programmes for ‘The Pulse’ and the Channel Four consumer affairs series ‘Checkout’.

Holmes Associates• Produced and researched programmes for the Channel Four flagship arts series ‘Signals’ which featured interviews with acclaimed writer Tom Wolfe on the art market, Aliens star Sigourney Weaver on the lack of meaningful roles for women in Hollywood movies, and theatre legend Peter Brook on his staging of the Mahabharata.Films of Record• Embedded in numerous police forces across the UK over a period of two years conducting audio interviews which formed the substance of Roger Graef’s acclaimed book Talking Blues (Collins-Harvill, 1986) and material for the drama Closing Ranks (LWT).

Master Of Science (Msc), Electronic Publishing

• Design, publishing, technology and content production for the media • Dissertation subject WAP usability. Research and evaluation.

Ba (Hons), History

Activities and Societies: Specialist in history of renaissance Venice