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The Enfield Poltergeist (series composer) Apple TV+ BAFTA nominated 2024


Metfilm Production 4-part series directed by Jerry Rothwell

Meticulously crafted 1970s scenes of British suburban life set the stage for a precise re-enactment of one of the most well-documented ghost hunts ever: the Enfield poltergeist. But there’s a twist with this four-part series: the actors don’t speak. All the audio used in these recreations of the case are the actual recordings of the investigation, the conversations around the investigation, and the public debates and reporting around it.  The score I composed was recorded by The Budapest Art Orchestra.  A mixture of driving, rhythmic orchestrations and appropriately unnerving instrumental textures.


Evacuation (series composer) Channel 4 BAFTA, RTS and Grierson nominated 2024


Wonderhood Studios 3-part series directed by James Newton

Through unprecedented and rare testimonial, this “gut-wrenching” and “astonishingly vivid” first-hand account of the evacuation from Kabul in 2021, shows what happens when you lose a war and the impact it has on the men and women who serve. “Give it your time, let it rip open your heart” - The New Statesman.  The score sets the emotional tone and atmosphere throughout the series and leads the audience on a rollercoaster journey through this immensely powerful human story. 


Who Killed The KLF? (composer & supervising sound designer) AMPS nominated 2021

Fulwell 73 and Neon Films feature documentary directed by Chris Atkins

"Who Killed the KLF?" explores the rise and fall of the KLF in the 1980s and 1990s, touching upon themes that perfectly capture the 21st century zeitgeist. A tale as intriguing as it is bonkers" 


Baby Surgeons: Delivering Miracles (series composer) Grierson award nominated 2021 

Wonderhood Studios 3 part series for Channel 4 directed by James Newton
Filmed across a year in the Fetal Medicine Unit at St George’s Hospital London, this series tells the stories of pregnancy and childbirth through the eyes of the women and the medical teams who treat them. Featuring pioneering operations on babies who are still inside the womb, saving lives before they are born.


Inside The Social Network: Facebook’s difficult year (composer) BBC Horizon

BBC Horizon documentary directed by James Newton

This film goes behind the scenes and follows the teams inside Facebook. It tackles difficult questions, like how our data is used and what content should and shouldn’t be on the site, but also shows how Facebook works, what the teams are doing to secure it, and reveals a hidden technological playground, where some of the smartest engineers in the world are being hired to build systems and technology no one has built before.


Heart Transplant: A Chance To Live (composer) Broadcast awards nominated 2019


Highly acclaimed BBC feature documentary directed by James Newton

A year in the lives of 7 people in desperate need of a new heart and the surgeons using cutting edge technology to save them.  An emotively powerful film that required an equally strong musical score to empathise with the situations and characters involved.

“There will be few more moving and astonishing programmes on TV this year” The Guardian“Profoundly moving” The Times

The School In The Cloud (composer) CPH:DOX 2018


Metfilm Production feature documentary directed by Jerry Rothwell 

The School In The Cloud tells the story of TED Prize winner Sugata Mitra through the eyes of children in a remote Indian village whose lives are being transformed by his ideas.   It is framed by the development of Mitra's latest and most ambitious project, the 'School in the Cloud' – and asks the question 'What kind of education do children need in the modern world?'


How To Change The World (composer- additional music) Grierson winner 2016, Sundance nominated 2015


Metfilm feature documentary directed by Jerry Rothwell

In 1971 a small group of activists set sail from Vancouver, Canada in an old fishing boat. Their mission was to stop Nixon's atomic test bomb in Amchitka, Alaska. Chronicling this untold story at the birth of the modern environmental movement and with access to dramatic archive footage unseen for over 40 years, the film centres on eco-hero Robert Hunter and his part in the creation of the global organization we now know as Greenpeace.
  The music I wrote for the ‘whaleboat confrontation’ scene, recorded by The Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, creates an appropriate atmosphere of tension and anxiety.


We Are The Freaks (composer) Edinburgh Film Festival ‘Best Film’ nominted 2013


104 Films feature comedy directed by Justin Edgar

Surreal and anarchic anti-teen movie about three friends having the night of their lives against the backdrop of the end of the Thatcher era. Winner of the best film award at Las Vegas Film Festival 2013 and a Michael Powell Award nominee at Edinburgh International Film Festival, the film premiered on Netflix.


Janapar (composer) Raindance 2012

Feature documentary directed by James Newton Raindance 2012

Award-winning feature documentary following one man’s life-changing journey around the world, and the love story that unfolds when he stumbles upon an Iranian-Armenian girl along the way. Made from more than 300 hours of footage filmed in 32 countries.