BBC wins eight of 14 Grierson Awards
BBC commissions dominated last night’s Grierson Awards ceremony 2018, winning eight of the 14 awards.
Published: 6 November 2018
This success is a tribute to all the programme makers and contributors whose work continues to inspire and engage audiences.
BBC One series Stephen: The Murder That Changed A Nation won two awards; Best Documentary Series and Best Historical Documentary for its opening episode, The Loss of Joy.
Patrick Kielty's BBC Two film My Dad, The Peace Deal and Me picked up the award for Best Documentary Presenter. Whilst Best Science Documentary went to Chris Packham: Aspergers and Me.
Also scooping awards were BBC Two's H is for Hawk: A New Chapter which won Best Natural History Documentary, whilst Storyville: The Work - Four Days to Redemption on BBC Four won Best Single Documentary - International and Best Cinema Documentary.
BBC One’s Panorama programme won the award for Best Current Affairs Documentary for Undercover: Britain’s Immigration Secrets. The programme exposed serious chaos, incompetence and abuse at an Immigration Removal Centre and as a direct result there have been Parliamentary select committee hearings and two independent enquiries announced - one funded by G4S and the other by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman.
Alison Kirkham, Controller of Factual Commissioning, says: "I’m incredibly proud of the broad range of BBC output recognised by the Grierson Awards. This success is a tribute to all the programme makers and contributors whose work continues to inspire and engage audiences."
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Full list of winners:
- Storyville: The Work - Four Days to Redemption, BBC Four
Best Single Documentary - International - Panorama: Undercover - Britain's Immigration Secrets, BBC One
Best Current Affairs Documentary - Leonora Carrington: The Lost Surrealist, BBC Four
Best Arts or Music Documentary - Stephen: The Murder that Changed a Nation - The Loss of Joy, BBC One
Best Historical Documentary - Chris Packham: Asperger's and Me, BBC Two
Best Science Documentary - H is for Hawk: A New Chapter, BBC Two
Best Natural History Documentary - Stephen: The Murder That Changed A Nation, BBC One
Best Documentary Series - Patrick Kielty for My Dad, the Peace Deal and Me, BBC One
Best Documentary Presenter
Highly commended:
- A House Through Time - Episode 2, BBC Two
Best Historical Documentary - Natural World: Attenborough's Wonder of Eggs, BBC Two
Best Science Documentary - Blue Planet II: One Ocean, BBC One
Best Natural History Documentary
