documentaries (FILM and AUDIO)

British-born migrant children fight to survive poverty.. Channel 4. 20 April 2025.

Director Rachel Cumella and I spent two years filming children from Surrey Square Primary School. We wanted to understand, from the children themselves, how their experiences were shaped by poverty and insecurity.

All of the children were born in the UK, but are forced into poverty by punishing policies brought in during the hostile environment. Lawyer Adam Hundt told me that one policy in particular - No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF), which prevents some children with migrant parents from accessing any kind of support - is “creating an underclass of Black British children who are poorer than everyone else.”

While the piece we did for Channel 4 is short, we are hoping to produce a longform documentary.

Poems at Dusk. BBC Radio 4. 29 Nov. 2020. 

I pitched, wrote and produced this one-off documentary on how elderly poets write about aging and death— and feel truly blessed to have had these conversations. I loved crafting the delicate, shimmering world of this podcast. It was also a joy to bring in young poet and presenter Theresa Lola to read my script and to work with her on a bespoke poem.

America at the crossroads: abortion in South Bend. Tortoise. 25 July 2022. 

I traveled back to the Midwest, my home turf, to report this one-off audio documentary on how the issue of abortion is playing out in South Bend, Indiana, where US Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett spent many years. I also hosted the documentary. 

Justice for Christopher. Stories of Our Times. 28 July 2020. 

I produced and wrote this one-off documentary on a mother’s search for justice after her thirteen-year-old son Christopher was killed in what she believes was an incident of racist bullying.

Fortuné’s big dreams and small spaghetti business. PRI’s The World. 23 November 2016

This short, six-minute piece is probably my favorite piece I’ve ever produced— about a boy with talent, drive and impossibly big dreams in the war-torn country of the Central African Republic.

Children of the Hostile Environment (ongoing) with True Vision.

After years of passionate reporting on the topic, I am thrilled to be hosting and filming a documentary for TV on the children who have fallen victim to Britain’s harsh immigration policies. 

And that’s just the beginning…

The docs listed above are some of my all-time favorites, but I’ve made quite a few in my time. Here are a few other highlights. At the Times, I worked on a documentary about the rise in race hate crime during the pandemic, as well as a delightful story of an unlikely pair of room mates, a Syrian refugee and a man in his eighties.

At Tortoise, I worked on a documentary about a corporate whistleblower and another about why we still don’t have a male contraceptive pill on the market.

While at The Guardian, I worked with journalists on to produce many stories, including audio investigations into Britain’s role in Yemen’s war, the plastic industry and faulty medical devices.