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23 unusual facts about Royal Television Society


Adam and Joe

They won the Royal Television Society Best Newcomers Award in 1998, published The Adam and Joe Book in 1999, and presented BBC Three's coverage of the Glastonbury Festival in 2000 and 2002.

Adrian Monck

His work on the Dunblane massacre and in Bosnia received awards from Britain's Royal Television Society, and on aid to Rwanda won the special report gold medal, and overall festival prize at the 1995 New York Festivals.

Allan Segal

Allan Segal's work won, amongst other accolades, two BAFTAs (for the films "Nuts and Bolts of the Economy" and "Made in Korea"), the Royal Television Society's Judges' Award, and a New York Film Festival Blue Ribbon.

Banaz a Love Story

Banaz a Love Story has been nominated by Royal Television Society in the category of Journalism award for Home/British Current Affairs.

Chiara Bellati

Previously she worked on 2 series of the BAFTA award-winning BBC "Coast" and on a number of programmes for Channel 4, including producing a documentary for the controversial Witness Series entitled Moving Heaven and Earth, and producing and directing a prime-time series of the Royal Television Society award-winning series A Place in the Sun.

David Docherty

During his career in television his credits have included serving as BBC Deputy Director of Television and Director of New Media with the corporation, as well as being a member of the BBC's Board of Management and a director of the Royal Television Society.

Desi DNA

In 2004 Desi DNA received the Best Lifestyle Programme award from the Royal Television Society.

George Cansdale

During that period he began to broadcast for the BBC, on early wildlife programmes such as Heads, Tails and Feet, Looking at Animals and All About Animals, the latter two of which won the Royal Television Society's Silver Medal in 1952.

George Harold Brown

He was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Royal Television Society.

Guy Lynn

He has won three Royal Television Society "RTS Reporter of the Year" awards, two bronze BBC Ruby TV journalism awards and an Amnesty International media award for reporting on human rights.

Jules Hudson

After becoming lead presenter on ITV Meridian's The Making of England, and making Have I Been Here Before? with Phillip Schofield, he developed and produced the series Revival for ITV, which gained a Royal Television Society nomination.

Kay Alexander

In October 2003, the Royal Television Society presented her with a Special Award to mark thirty years in television.

Lis Howell

She was later deputy programme controller and in 1989 was joint winner with ITN of a Royal Television Society award for coverage of the Lockerbie air disaster, where she broke the story and organised the incoming footage from the scene.

Lyse Doucet

She and her team were later nominated for a Royal Television Society Award for their exclusive coverage of the attempt.

Maggie O'Kane

In the first half of 2007, GuardianFilms won two Amnesty International awards and a RTS award for its Iraq coverage.

Mark Williams-Thomas

In 2013, Williams-Thomas won two Royal Television Society awards and the London Press Awards Scoop of the Year for the film.

Nisha Pillai

Her nine-month investigation into financial affairs of media proprietor Robert Maxwell was presented as "The Max Factor", which won an award from the Royal Television Society in 1991.

Oggi Tomic

Tough Guy 453 was a documentary Oggi was involved on as a cinematographer which won best factual film at several events such as Ffresh,1 and was one of three films nominated by the Royal Television Society at their awards ceremony at The Barbican Centre in London.

Roderick Snell

Snell is a visiting professor at the Business School of the University of Kingston, Surrey, a fellow of the Royal Television Society, and a governor of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE).

Sally Wainwright

She won 2009 Writer of the Year Award given by the RTS in 2009 for Unforgiven.

Shooting the Past

Focused around a photographic library threatened by closure, and the lives of its eccentric staff, it featured Timothy Spall and Lindsay Duncan, was awarded Best Drama Series at the Royal Television Society Awards of the same year and received other international awards, including the Prix Italia.

Tessa Dunlop

Dunlop was named 'Regional Television Personality' in the Royal Television Society's West of England Awards 2005 for her work on regional magazine show Inside Out West.

The Heart of the Angel

This documentary was given the Documentary Award by the Royal Television Society.


Charles Pattinson

He produced a variety of series and one-offs for the Corporation during the 1990s, of which the best known are 1996's Our Friends in the North (winner of the 1997 Best Drama Serial accolades from both the British Academy Television Awards and the Royal Television Society) and the 1997 Jimmy McGovern serial The Lakes.

Gary Gibbon

Gibbon won the 2006 RTS Home News Award with Jon Snow for his scoop on the Attorney General's Legal Advice on Iraq, and revealed details of Tony Blair's pre-war meeting with George W. Bush.

Hardcash Productions

Hardcash specialises in current affair programmes and has won three Emmys, three RTS Journalism Awards and a BAFTA for Channel 4's Dispatches.

Laurence Bowen

Bowen won a BAFTA for My Life as a Popat and a BAFTA nomination for Suburban Shootout together with RTS, Broadcast and Chicago Film Festival awards, Prix Jeunesse, Rose D'or, Emmy and BANFF nominations and most recently the Monte Carlo Golden Nymph for Best International Producer of the Year.

Michael Checkland

In 1985 he was appointed Deputy Director-General of the Corporation, and at the same time he became Vice President of the Royal Television Society, a position he retained until 1994.