The BEST episodes directed by Richard Weller
#1 - Ads on the Frontline
BBC Documentaries - Season 2018 - Episode 112
Narrated by Eamonn Holmes, Ads on the Frontline looks at a controversial series of adverts produced by the Northern Ireland Office during the last 10 years of the Troubles. The aim was to encourage people to pass on information to a confidential phoneline to help end the violence. To some, the ads were British government propaganda, to others a cultural snapshot of Northern Ireland's brutal past. Ads on the Frontline hears from people on different sides of the debate.
#2 - The Belfast Mayor - A Year in Chains
BBC Documentaries - Season 2012 - Episode 207
In 2011 Belfast City Council elected its youngest ever Lord Mayor, Sinn Fein's Niall O Donnghaile. At just twenty-five and with little political experience, he was thrust into the limelight for one of the biggest years in Belfast's history. In The Belfast Mayor - A Year in Chains, cameras follow the ups and downs of Niall's tenure, from the highs of hosting the MTV European Music Awards and opening Titanic Belfast, to the low point when his refusal to present an army cadet with a Duke of Edinburgh Award resulted in widespread vilification. We reveal the man behind the headlines.
#3 - Belfast City: Mud, Sweat and 400 Years
BBC Documentaries - Season 2014 - Episode 185
Presenter and engineer Dick Strawbridge returns to Belfast to tell the story of one of the world's most important seaports. Using state of the art graphics, Dick charts the city's 400 year journey from humble sandbank, to the industrial powerhouse that made it the envy of the world.