Last Gasp is Tom’s debut drama after more than 25 years making documentaries.
Across his career he has moved from news (Sunday Times, BBC Newsnight) to science (Horizon, BAFTA nominated Chemistry – A Volatile History) to BBC Arts (Paul Merton’s Silent Clowns) and finally history. (Charles I – Downfall of a King)
He has interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev on communism, flown in a helicopter with Sir Tony Robinson, carried Lucy Worsley through Oxford in a bath chair and set fire to diamonds with Professor Jim Al-Khalili.
His shows have won great press acclaim – ‘an exemplary hour’ (Daily Telegraph), ‘Intelligent, coherent and enthralling’ (Sunday Times), ‘a thrilling, not to be missed opportunity’ (Radio Times), ‘this is just beautiful television.’ (The Scotsman)
