Duration: 4.28
Sam Lee, whose folk album Ground of Its Own was nominated for the 2012 Mercury music prize, takes us to Kent to meet one of his musical inspirations, Freda Black, an 85-year-old Romany singer. Sam is on a quest to record ancient folk songs sung by generations of Travellers including Freda, to capture the tradition in its purest form
Duration: 6.24
A key work of The Rest is Noise festival at London’s Southbank in 2013 is Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, written for the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes company. Jazz pianist and composer Julian Joseph, at the festival to speak about the fascination of jazz and black music for composers such as Stravinsky, talks to Imogen Tilden about the Russian composer’s visionary classical work
Duration: 9.23
“A great piece, tackled very sensitively.”
(Richard Bottomley, VJ Movement.com)
Barbara Blaine, a survivor of sexual abuse by a Catholic priest, has travelled from Chicago for the Pope’s UK visit with a mission to stop abuse in the church.
This video was part of The Guardian’s coverage on 17 September 2010 of the Pope’s UK visit:
Duration: 18.18
Rioters speak for the first time about why they took part in the summer 2011 disturbances, the most serious bout of civil unrest in Britain in a generation.
Guardian reporter Paul Lewis presents the findings of a Guardian and London School of Economics study that reveals how the riots in England were sparked by poverty, injustice and a visceral hatred of the police.
This film was shown on Newsnight, the BBC’s flagship news and current affairs programme, in December 2011.
Filmed and co-produced by Cameron.
Duration: 12.38
In an insight into a blind woman’s life, Diane Marks, wearing a headcamera, illustrates how she will be affected by the UK government’s proposed disability benefit cuts.
This video was part of The Guardian’s pre-event coverage of The Hardest Hit march, that focused on disabled people’s rights, in London on May 11 2011
Duration: 12.32
Harry Shearer (actor of Mr Burns in The Simpsons; actor of Derek Smalls in This Is Spinal Tap and its co-writer)
Republicans were arrested while thousands of royalists took to the streets of London to celebrate William and Kate’s marriage.
Co-shot and co-edited by Cameron.