Factual Programme Sales and Licensing
We sell diverse factual programmes produced by Peter Williams Television International (PWTV), an independent media production company based in South East England.
Covering a wide array of subjects, Peter’s programmes have been seen in many countries and won awards around the world. Contact arcspur today to enquire about programme sales.
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About Peter Williams
Following a career in newspapers and television with ITV and the BBC, Peter Williams has been involved in many of the world's milestone events over the years and as an independent production company, he has been a supplier of factual programmes to the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and leading international broadcasters.
In a long and distinguished career, Peter has produced and directed documentaries on subjects as diverse as:
- The Queen and Her Ceremonial Horses
- The Bank of England
- Richard Branson and His Attempts to Fly around the World in a Balloon
- The Archbishop of Canterbury
- Socialist Pioneer Aneurin Bevan
- War Correspondent Martha Gellhorn
- The Grimaldis
- The Gettys
- Singer and Socialist Paul Robeson
- A Year in the Life of Canterbury Cathedral
- Sir Edmund Hillary and His Ascent of Everest
- The History of the Wellington Bomber
- King’s – A Series on the Oldest School in Britain
- Lord Reith, Founder of the BBC
Programmes
Peter is the only producer to have exclusive access to Dr Panayiotis Zavos’ attempts to clone a human being for Discovery and also explored the formation of the Premier League for Sky. PWTV’s first feature-length documentary is “Hilary Lister: A Race Against Time”, which was adapted for broadcast on BBC Two.
He also recently produced and directed a documentary for the 75th anniversary of Dunkirk on the paddle steamer “Medway Queen”, one of the Little Ships, and a documentary on the Theatre Royal, Margate for BBC One called “Feral In Margate”.
His feature-length documentary “The Challenge” tells the story of a father’s fight to save his son from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. The film won awards at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and the Best Documentary award at Milan (2016) and was shown on Discovery.
Peter has just produced and directed a feature length documentary “A Century Of Coal” on the history of the East Kent Coalfield, which has won five awards at Festivals around the world. Peter has also written a history of the Coalfield, titled “In Black & White”, on sale through Waterstones and Amazon. He is currently making a feature-length documentary on one of the most significant battles of World War II, for Hill 112 in Normandy, titled “A Canterbury Tale”.
His team discovered the wreck of the Titanic (for National Geographic) in 1985; he made the exclusive documentaries on the birth of the first IVF babies in both the UK (for ITV in 1978) and in the US (for WGBH 1981). His “Test Tube Explosion” was runner up for the Prix Italia and was shown in Stockholm at the ceremony at which Professor Robert Edwards received the Nobel Prize for Science.
He has often specialised in programmes on wartime history, including:
- Doodlebug Summer: Hitler’s wartime Vengeance Weapons, the V1 and V2;
- The Road to D-Day: Preparations for the Allied Invasion of Europe;
- Secret Army: Britain’s Kent-based underground resistance in 1940 (for Meridian, LWT and the History Channel);
- D-Day – The Shortest Day: Marked the 50th anniversary of D-Day for ITV, and the 60th anniversary on The History Channel.
Awards
Peter has won awards at many of the world’s television festivals – New York, San Francisco, Houston and from the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union and the European Broadcast Union. “Charlie Wing” won the Royal Television Society Best Documentary award in 1990, and “Ambulance” (ITV Meridian) won the INDIES Best Regional Programme Award in 1994.
He was also awarded the RTS Industry Achievement Award in 2002. He is a member of the Royal Television Society and a founder member of United for Local Television (ULTV), which successfully lobbied successive governments to initiate Local TV in the UK.
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Award-Winning Factual Programmes
Our programme sales and licensing include a wide range of programmes about diverse subjects.