The BEST episodes directed by Richard Downes
#1 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh: A Modern Man
BBC Documentaries - Season 1996 - Episode 1
Profile of architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
#2 - Ian Rankin Investigates - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
BBC Documentaries - Season 2007 - Episode 69
Crime writer Ian Rankin investigates The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Starting with Robert Louis Stevenson's nightmare in September 1885, Rankin traces the roots of this story, which stretches back to Stevenson's childhood. Grave-robbers, hallucinatory drugs and prostitution all play their part in the disturbing account of Henry Jekyll's double-life, as Rankin's journey takes him into the yeasty draughts and unlit closes of the city that inspired the tale - Edinburgh.
#3 - Conan Doyle for the Defence
BBC Documentaries - Season 2005 - Episode 57
Documentary exploring the lesser-known side of Arthur Conan Doyle, who solved real crimes as chilling and baffling as those investigated by his creation Sherlock Holmes. His two most infamous cases involved tracking down a madman who mutilated horses and brought terror to a quiet, leafy English village, and the brutal murder of a wealthy spinster which led Doyle to expose corruption at the heart of Britain's justice system. Driven by a deep sense of justice, Conan Doyle strove to prove the innocence of two wrongfully convicted men, so confirming the belief in minds of many that Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle were one and the same.