Sam Collyns
Sam Collyns is an award-winning British film documentary producer and director. In a career that has spanned twenty years at the BBC and a further ten in the independent sector, Sam has won BAFTAs and Grierson awards as Executive Producer and Director. He has made a broad range of current affairs an…
Known For
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The Return: Life After ISIS
Shamima Begum and Hoda Muthana made it into worldwide headlines when they left their countries as teenagers to join ISIS. Now they want to return but their countries don't want them back.
The Day Mountbatten Died
On 27 August 1979, Lord Mountbatten, great uncle to Prince Charles, was blown up at sea by the IRA off the west coast of the Republic of Ireland. Three others were killed on the boat that day, including two teenage boys. Later that afternoon, in a second strike, the IRA killed 18 British soldiers, across the border in Northern Ireland. Forty years on, this is the story of that remarkable Bank Holiday Monday – movingly told by those directly affected by it.