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Biography
Clive Syddall is a British film maker and television journalist noted for several campaigning documentaries.
Life and career
In 1969 after a year as a graduate trainee with Southern Television, he joined the BBC as a producer and director on 24 Hours, Midweek and later Panorama where he produced films from the front line in Northern Ireland, the Middle East and Southern Africa.
His credits included the BAFTA award winning BBC series River Journeys (episode director), the documentary Gang City – the story of the ongoing gang warfare in the Olympic City of Los Angeles for the BBC2 series Real Lives, and The Last Flight of Zulu Delta 576 (Channel 4). Investigation into the Chinook helicopter crash over the Mull of Kintyre killing 29 of Britain’s top secret service personnel originally blamed on the two pilots for gross negligence and their parent’s fight to clear their names.(1997)
He was Council member of the Royal Television Society, and Director of Kirtlington Park Ltd (2012–17).
In 2000 he formed a joint venture with Emmy-award winning director Bill Cran and formed PITV which produced a number of award winning programmes for international distribution.