Blakeway North recently won Independent Production Company of the Year at the Prolific North Awards (for the fourth time) , as well as multiple RTS awards, 02 Awards, an Emmy, a Rockie awards, a Venice TV Award, The Prix Jeunesse Award and The Japan Prize. The company was also recently judged a 'Best Place to work in TV' by Broadcast magazine Blakeway North specialises in access documentaries. By instigating and maintaining strong relationships with individuals and institutions, we craft honest, thought provoking and entertaining output.Past programmes include the RTS winning BBC Three film Kicked Out – From Care to Chaos, the Emmy Prix Jeunesse, Japan Prize & RTS winning film Born to Vlog (CBBC). The Rockie & Venice TV Award winning ' I Will Survive' (CBBC). Stacey Dooley's Second Chance Sex Offenders (BBC Three) & , Life After My Brother's Murder (BBC Three- another RTS winner). The World's Most Luxurious (C5), Skipping School - Britain's Invisible Kids (C4) & RTS & O2 award winning Manchester Bomb - Our Story (BBC Three). Nikki Lilly Meets & Nikki Lilly Bakes (CBBC), The World's Funniest Ads (C5). Caravanning with Shane Richie , The Voices in My Head (BBC Three), Cutting Edge - The Foreign Doctors are Coming (C4), RTS winning EDL Girls -Don’t Call Me Racist for BBC Three. The People's Vet (C4) . Single Mum, Super Mum (C5). Swap My Council House and My £9.50 Holiday for BBC One (two of the highest rating 10.35pm documentaries of the year), a Channel 4 film My Baggy Body (which achieved the highest ever rating for C4’s First Cut strand), a short series, The Most Famous School in the World for CBBC boasting hard-won access to Eton College and five arts films for ITV’s Perspectives strand: The Brilliant Bronte Sisters with Sheila Hancock ; The Genius of Dahl with David Walliams ; The Man in the Hat –Will Young on Rene Magritte and Under My Skin – Emeli Sande in search of Frida Kahlo and Michael Jackson's Thriller with Ashley Banjo

1989-2008 Granada Television. Originally joined as a researcher, before becoming an AP, Producer, Series Producer, Executive Producer , Editor of Religion and Education and finally Head of Documentaries. Numerous Executive Producer credits including :Singles : The Smallest People in the World – C4’s highest rating documentary of 2007 directed by Jane Treays ; Born in the USSR – 21 Up Russia -ITV (Golden Eagle Award, shortlisted for Grierson Award) ; The Real John Curry – C4 (Winner of 2 RTS Awards); The Man with The Seven Second Memory – ITV ; Prime Suspect –ITV (RTS Winner) ; Mum Heroin and Me – C4; Teenage Pregnant Sisters – ITV ; Britain’s First Fat Camp – ITV ; Babies at Fifty – ITV ; My Child Can’t Stop Eating – ITV ; Lose 30 Stone or Die –ITV ; America’s Fattest City -C4 & Trio ; The Real Tony Blackburn -C4 ; The Virtual Body - C4 (Bafta nominated) ; Smarter than Your Kids (ITV) ; Cutting Edge – The Virgin Daughters – C4 ; Forty Years of University Challenge – BBC2 (RTS winner) ; Sky Doctors (ITV) ; Aged 12 and Looking after the Family (C4) ; My Mum is My Dad – ITV ; Painted Babies Growing UP – BBC4Series : Bouncers -ITV ; Taxi Nights –ITV ; Amsterdam Nights – Bravo ; What the Papers Say -BBC2 ; My Favourite Hymns - 9 series for ITV ; Desperate Dieters - Discovery; Extraordinary Families - C4 including films The Seven Wives of Alexander Spencer ; Catherine - a Mothers Story- (RTS Winner) and And Baby Makes Eleven (Jane Treays) ; A Brush With Fame - ITV ; Mini Models -Discovery Health ; Northern Rites - C4; St Margaret Mary’s – ITV (Premier Award, Sandford St Martins) ; Coronation Street/Emmerdale/Heartbeat specials (75 separate soap specials) ; Behind the Scenes – ITV3 - 15 films charting production of ITV’s most successful dramas including Cracker, Doc Martin, Prime Suspect, Kingdom