Ian Duncan

Dambusters: Building the Bouncing Bomb

Ian Duncan

Jim Carter, Hugh Hunt

In 1939, visionary aircraft designer Barnes Wallis designed a very special bomb that would bounce across water and destroy German dams. The raid in 1943 was a success and a 1950s feature film carried the the Dambusters story into British legend. The science behind the bouncing bomb is highly complex, and many of Barnes Wallis' vital working calculations have been lost. Now, Cambridge engineer Dr Hugh Hunt, is going to attempt to solve the scientific puzzle of exactly how Wallis did it. Starting from scratch, he will rediscover the brilliance of Wallis's achievement when he tries to hit a dam with a bouncing bomb. It is the first time this has been attempted since the war.

D-Day 360

Ian Duncan

Demetri Goritsas, Len Fullenkamp

From PBS - Focusing on the most important strip of Omaha beach that day - the exit at Vierville-sur-Mer - D-DAY 360 strips D-Day back to its raw data to reveal how the odds of victory, in the greatest gamble of World War II, swung on what happened over a five-hour period on a five mile stretch of French coastline. Data gathered though forensic laser scanning, 3D computer modeling, and eye-witness accounts bring the battlefield to life as never before.

Born With Two Mothers

Ian Duncan, Oliver Morse

Lesley Sharp, Adam Kotz

A provocative drama about an IVF mix-up which results in a white woman giving birth to a black boy.

Attack of the Zeppelins

Ian Duncan

Engineer Dr Hugh Hunt revisits the little-known story of the First World War's Blitz, when the Zeppelin waged an 18-month terror campaign on the people of London.

Twockers

Ian Duncan, Paweł Pawlikowski

Trevor Wademan, Stephen Mason

Bonfires, thieving and love in Halifax. An award-winning hybrid of documentary and drama that lets teenagers act out their lives in a West Yorkshire council estate. Trevor is a typical seventeen year old dosser living on a housing estate in the North of England. He smokes ‘blow’, joyrides and burgles houses, and also writes poetry. His muse is his next door neighbour, sixteen year old Amie. Every morning he works on a poem that will express his feelings and maybe win Amie’s heart.

Hitler's Supergun

Ian Duncan

Craig Sechler, Jim Carter

Historians and engineers investigate how Allied forces conspired to destroy Hitler's "supergun".