British television used to be seen as the Shangri-La for documentary makers: a place where the documentary genre was highly valued, and benefited from a commissioning system which provided full commissions for filmmakers, allowing them to focus their energies on the art of filmmaking. Carol Nahra talks to British producer Christo Hird about how UK television is no longer the haven it once was.
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