ITV Documentaries

'Hindesight' is a 40 minute arts documentary made to mark the return visit to Ireland of John Hinde and his wife Jutta for the opening of a retrospective exhibition of his photographic and postcard work at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in the summer of 1993. This exhibition was one in a series exploring the nature and role of photography in visual culture. The exhibition presented iconic tourist images of Ireland and from around the world made in the 1960s and 70s as well as Hinde's pioneering colour photography made in England before and during the Second World War. The documentary explores Hinde's early life and obsession with everything to do with colour photography. His time as a circus publicity manager and how the failure of his own circus The John Hinde Show brought him to Ireland and led to his return to photography and international success in the manufacture of picture postcards. Hinde sold his postcard company in the early 1970s and moved first to Spain before settling in the Dordogne Valley in France where he died in 1998.

Apollo When the World Held Its Breath covers the development of the US space program, concentrating on the almost-disaster of Apollo 13 where, two-hundred thousand miles into its journey to the moon, an explosion ripped through its service module, leaving astronauts James Lovell, Fred Haise and John Jack Swigert with a limited supply of oxygen, water and food. Against all odds they came back and, almost 25 years after the doomed mission, this celebrated documentary told their story. Presented by James Burke, this documentary includes interviews with the key players and covers the highs and lows of the Apollo lunar project from the tragedy of Apollo 1 to Apollo 11 s world-changing moon-walk and beyond. Featuring interviews with Lovell and Haise, the astronauts families, flight director Gene Krantz, Mission Operations director Christopher Kraft, astronauts Mike Collins and Buzz Aldrin and cosmonaut Alexei Leonov,

A detailed history of the Fender Stratocaster guitar, with contributions from Robin Trower, Eric Clapton, David Gilmour, Jimmie Vaughan, Keith Richards, Richie Sambora, Mark Knopfler, Chris Rea, Bryan Adams, Hank Marvin and many more.