Episode two of BBC's Big Oil v the World premiers Thursday, we spoke with producer, Dan Edge and director Jane McMullen, on production, tracking down interviewees and industry pushback.
Big Oil v the World, BBC's new three-part documentary series on the fossil fuel industry and its impact on the environment, aired its first episode.
A new documentary will be broadcast by the BBC next week on the impact of the 1970s oil boom on a small village in the Highlands.
At the suggestion of a friend I listened to a recent edition of the BBC Radio 4 series “Costing the Earth”. The programme was entitled “Big Oil, Big Trouble”. After listening to it, I was minded to write a strong letter of complaint and objection to the BBC. However, I then reflected that this would only make my objections known to a few people at the BBC, who would, most likely, immediately dismiss them as coming from a biased source, particularly as, although today I am retired and have no involvement with the industry, I did spend almost all of my working life in it. So I thought it would be better to “go public” with my criticisms and corrections and let people draw their own conclusions – and who better to approach for help on that but the editor of the UK’s best oil and gas news channel, namely Energy Voice. Hence this piece.