STEPHEN BEARD FILM EDITOR

Factual

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Like, Follow, Trafficked: Instagram’s Fake Guru

1 hour BBC World Service/Eye Investigations documentary.

BBC News, June 2024

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Young and Addicted: Generation Ketamine

26min current affairs documentary.

BBC News, April 2024

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Political Thinking with Nick Robinson

26min current affairs.

BBC News, Feb 2024

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Talking Movies

Regular short and long form editor.

BBC News, Oct 2023 - May 2024

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Unspun World with John Simpson

26min current affairs, 4 episodes.

BBC News, Sep 2023

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Channel 4 News (multiple news reports)

ITN Productions for Channel 4 News, Feb-Aug 2023

• Syria earthquake

• Is London Fashion Week inclusive enough?

• Mental health - Young people say care system is ‘failing’

• Inside Dadaab - life in one of the world’s largest refugee camps

• Inside Lebanon’s crisis - why families are fleeing to Europe

• Can the swift – one of the UK’s most threatened birds – be saved?

• Care homes crisis series of 3 reports

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Ukraine: A Year on the Frontlines

26min current affairs documentary.

BBC News, Feb 2023

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Channel 4 News: School lunches

6 min current affairs.

ITN Productions for Channel 4 News, Dec 2022

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Channel 4 News: COP15

6 min current affairs.

ITN Productions for Channel 4 News, Dec 2022

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Channel 4 News: The fight to save British birds

7 min current affairs.

ITN Productions for Channel 4 News, Dec 2022

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America: Faith on the Frontline

26min current affairs documentary.

BBC World News, Nov 2022

 

​Channel 4 News: Disability Hate Crime

7 min current affairs.

ITN Productions for Channel 4 News, Oct 2022

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Jamaica: Forced Deportation

26min current affairs documentary.

BBC World News, Aug 2022

 

Ukraine: Reporting from the Frontlines

2 x 23 min current affairs.

BBC News and BBC World News, Mar 2022

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Going Wild with John and James

2 x 16 min wildlife travelogue.

Fresh Start Media.

EcoFlix, Feb 2022

 

A Taste of the City

23 min food travelogue.

BBC World News, Dec 2021

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Made on Earth: Road to Recovery

8 part documentary series.

BBC World News, Sep - Nov 2020

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Brazil: Amazon on Fire

16 min current affairs.

BBC World News, Sep 2020

 

The Virus that Killed the Jumbo Jet

26 min documentary. Produced by Mark Jordan. BBC World News, Aug 2020

 

Three Years in Wuhan

3 x 26 min documentaries. Additional editing, reversion and online editing.

BBC World News, May 2020

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A Taste of the City

23 min food travelogue.

BBC World News, Feb 2020

 

Macedonia: More Than a Name

23 min current affairs documentary.

Directed by John Thynne.

BBC World News, Nov 2019

 

Talking Books: Edinburgh Festival 2019

2 x 23 min interviews. Produced by Fiona Oates. BBC News and BBC World News, Sep 2019

 

Talking Books: Hay Festival 2019

3 x 23 min interviews. Produced by Fiona Oates.

BBC News and BBC World News, May 2019

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Congo: A Journey to the Heart of Africa

47 min documentary

Written and presented by Alastair Leithead

BBC World News, Dec 2018

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Sound Odyssey

3 x 16 min music documentaries

BBC World News, Aug - Sep 2018

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Food and Farming

9 x 5 min educational online films

Boojum Media for Nestlé, Aug 2018

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Money Clinic

2 x 23 min documentaries

BBC World News & BBC News, May 2018

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100 Women Challenge: Breaking the Glass Ceiling

47 min documentary

BBC World News & BBC News, Oct 2017

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HARDtalk On The Road

Current affairs documentary

BBC News, July 2017

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Talking Books at Hay Festival 2017

4 x arts interviews

BBC News, June 2017

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Great Explorations

Documentary

BBC World News & BBC News, May 2017

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Japan's Northern Wilderness

50 min travel and nature documentary reversioned

from a two-part series

BBC2, April 2017

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India's Millennials

Documentary

BBC World News, March 2017

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Scar: Living with Self-harm

16 min VT for Victoria Derbyshire

BBC2, Nov 2016

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Talking Books at Cheltenham Literature Festival

2 x episodes

BBC World News & BBC News

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Team Refugee

Documentary

BBC World News & BBC News, July 2016

 

Favela Athletes

Documentary

BBC World News, June 2016

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I am Yazidi

Documentary

BBC World News, April 2016

 

Our World - South Sudan: Shattered Dream

Documentary (co-editor)

BBC World News, July 2015

 

Racing the Sahara

Documentary

BBC World News & BBC News, July 2014

 

Witness

30+ short documentaries for online and TV

BBC World Service, 2014 - 2022

 

Health Check

Health news compilations

BBC World News, 2014 - 2017