The BEST episodes directed by Rowan Deacon
#1 - How To Die: Simon's Choice
BBC Documentaries - Season 2016 - Episode 32
Made in partnership with The Open University, How To Die: Simon’s Choice tells the poignant story of one man facing the unimaginable decision of whether to end his life at a suicide clinic. "I thought they'd be indifferent to the timing of my demise,” says Simon Binner in this observational documentary about his life and eventual death. “I was so wrong.” Simon, whose story went public and became the subject of media attention following his death last year, was diagnosed with an aggressive form of motor neurone disease in January 2015 and given just two years to live. After telling his loved ones that he was considering ending his life at an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland, Simon and his family and friends grapple with huge moral, emotional and legal dilemmas around his choice. As this moving film shows, their conflicting perspectives mean that his heart wrenching decision lies in the balance until the very end. In a British television first, the documentary gains access to Switzerland’s second largest assisted suicide clinic, the Eternal Spirit centre, where Simon initially makes an appointment to end his life on a set date - his birthday. Simon’s final moments were filmed by medical professionals at the clinic, who are legally required to record their patients’ final decision to take the lethal dose. This has been included within the film, however it does not show the moment of death.
#2 - Weekend
The Tube - Season 1 - Episode 1
A major track replacement operation at Harrow on the Hill threatens to disrupt the weekday service, while at Leicester Square on a busy Saturday night a woman is pushed on to the live tracks. In the last 10 years, passenger numbers on the Tube at the weekend have doubled. This is the story of how the Tube copes with our changing expectations of the weekend.
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#3 - Revenue
The Tube - Season 1 - Episode 2
Every day on the Underground 60,000 journeys are made and not paid for costing London Underground 20 million a year in unpaid fares. Diane McConnell and Denese Brunker are two of the Tube's longest-serving ticket inspectors and are known as the Cagney and Lacey of the Underground. We follow Diane and Denese, and other plain-clothes revenue inspectors on the Tube, as they pursue fare evaders across the network. We find what happens to the evaders and how all the money from tickets is being spent.
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