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Peter
Minns is an award-winning director with over 30 years experience.
He made
his first film aged 18, a twenty minute documentary on a day in the life of
a pop group. It was shown o
In the
early years as
a BBC film editor he worked with many top Directors including James
Cellan-Jones (Roads to Freedom) and the late Richard Marquand
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Since
then he has directed many award winning programmes including the
memorable ‘Chris
Patten’s East Meets West’, ‘Victim 0001’ - the 9/11
story of Father Mychal Judge , ‘Mad Cows and Englishmen’- the
history of BSE, ‘The Empire of Death’- uncovering the origins
of death cults with Christopher Lee. '30 Years On… The Birmingham
Bombings' and ‘Citizen 2000’- following the lives of 20
children who became 18 in the year 2000. He
achieved notoriety with a revealing profile of Keith Richards in "The Rolling Stones - 20 Years On"
which
achieved an audience of over 10 million on BBC 2.
He produced and directed "Under the Hammer" - the
investigation into Sothebys, the worlds most successful auction house,
which revealed the illegal trade in antiquities and the smuggling of 'Old
Master'
paintings from Italy. The scandalous revelations made the
front page of every major newspaper in Britain and America and led to
the closure of the Antiquities Department as well as an internal
investigation which cost Sothebys over three million dollars. His dramatised productions include ‘A Question of Sleaze- The Neil Hamilton Story’, ‘Death of the Marchioness’ and ‘Memo from Machiavelli’- a contemporary history starring Ian Richardson. Recently, ‘International Sub Rescue’ is the tense and moving story of the Russian mini submarine rescue off the coast of Kamchatka. |
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Peter lives in England's 'Hampshire Highlands' where he owns and runs a small farm.
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