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An Age of Kings | Peabody Award Winner 1961

Entertainment and education became synonymous in An Age of Kings, a brilliant and imaginative portrayal of Shakespeare’s rich pageant of English history. Through the cooperation of the British Broadcasting Corporation, National Educational Television and Radio Center, Metropolitan Broadcasting, and stations too numerous to name, this ambitious and distinguished series made possible the widest visual availability of the works of the Bard of Avon in the history of British and American television.

Read full winner’s citation here: http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/an-age-of-kings

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Delia Fine Accepting the 1996 Peabody Award for Pride & Prejudice

With Pride and Prejudice, the BBC and A&E Television Networks have joined forces to create a splendid and lavish adaptation of Jane Austen’s timeless novel. This fully realized rendering faithfully follows the unpredictable course laid out in the book’s opening manifesto: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of good fortune must be in want of a wife.” With those words, Austen began the story of the five Bennet daughters and their search for wealthy husbands.

Read full winner’s citation here: http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/pride-and-prejudice

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Walking with Dinosaurs | Peabody Award Winner 2000

The ultimate dinosaur series, Walking with Dinosaurs introduces viewers to some of the most spectacular creatures the world has ever known. In this genuinely original three-hour co-production, the BBC and The Discovery Channel recreate an ancient planet using state-of-the-art imaging technology. Long extinct species are resurrected by marrying actual live action footage with the latest generation of computer animation, animatronic models and prosthetic devices. Covering 155 million years of prehistory, these spectacular beasts are depicted as living in the wild, just as if they were lions, rhinos or monkeys. Through extraordinary computerized special effects, each species’ unique traits are vividly brought to life, from their body mechanics to the distinctive sounds they utter.

Read full winner’s citation here: http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/walking-with-dinosaurs

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Putin, Russia and the West

Peabody Winner 2012 | Brook Lapping Productions, BBC, National Geographic Channel

In a remarkable four-hour documentary, key portions of the history of the early 21st Century are presented as a fine-grained tapestry. That history could have been told through the intimate personality profiles that emerge here. It could have been examined in the detailed explorations of how these personalities engaged one another across borders, over issues, and in tense negotiations. It could have chronicled major conflicts, defined in part by the events of September 11, 2001. What makes the series most powerful, however, is the constant reminder that none of these things can be best understood without the others, without context, comparison, without the full “back story,” or better yet, the “back stage story.” With footage from every major news organization that covered those years, the series involves all the major “players.” From Yeltsin to Putin to Saakashvili to Medvedev, from Bush to Rice to Powell to Obama, all are present. So too are the oligarchs and the demonstrators, the soldiers and the civilians. With the drive of historical narrative and the pull of international intrigue, we observe constant jockeying for power and influence, for political control and financial gain, for personal power and national pride. Putin, Russia & The West exposes and explains history as process, as something made with choices rather than something to be recalled and described. For this it receives a Peabody Award.

Episode 1 - "Taking Control"


Episode 2 - "Democracy Threatens"


Episode 3 - "War"


Episode 4 - "New Start"

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