Mark is an award-winning Director and Series Director, with over 20 years’ experience in the TV and film industry.
In 2024, he directed the series “D-Day: The Unheard Tapes,” which has been broadcast on BBC2, History Channel and many other channels around the world. The series has already been critically acclaimed:
‘“The bar has been set high for TV making old soldiers’ sacrifice emotionally resonant to 21st-century viewers. The series director of D-Day: The Unheard Tapes, Mark Radice, along with the lip-syncers, film crews, historians and re-enactment groups, do just that,…
Not for a second have I ever been resentful about paying the BBC licence fee, but I’ve hardly ever been as happy to do so as when watching D-Day: The Unheard Tapes. It’s one of the best pieces of public service broadcasting I’ve seen in years.” (The Guardian)
“viscerally powerful… extraordinarily effective…Superb.” (The Telegraph)
“…a bravura piece of television that takes you by the throat in its opening seconds and refuses to let you go.” (Daily Mail)
Mark has been nominated for an Emmy, Grierson, BAFTA Cymru and won an RTS Scotland award for his political series “Scotland and the Battle for Britain.” He enjoys making visually striking films about extraordinary people and events. Stories from today and contemporary history, which help us to understand where we are and how we got here.
Mark’s made singles, series and feature-length films for global streamers and for the major channels in the UK and US. In 2022 and 2023 he made a limited series and feature-length drama-documentary The Never Ending Murder about the story of the mysterious disappearance of 18-year-old mother Nicola Payne.
In September 2022, Channel 4 broadcast a special obituary of the Queen, which Mark had written and directed. Her Majesty The Queen: A Look Back At The Life Of Queen Elizabeth II, was presented by the former presenter of Channel 4 News, Jon Snow. The film went out on the evening that Her Majesty died and it was the channel’s “show-piece of the evening” (Daily Telegraph).
In January 2022, Mark’s documentary UFOs: The Proof is Out There went out on Channel 5 - the film revealed the story of a secret UFO investigation program hidden inside the Pentagon. In 2021 he made GameStop: The Wall Street Hijack for streamer Discovery+, a film about the Gamestop share trading frenzy presented by Jordan Belfort, the real Wolf of Wall Street. And his obituary of Prince Philip for Channel 4, His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, was broadcast on the day that the Duke died, in April 2021.
Other highlights include: eye-catching retellings of big historical stories (The Great Escape: Revealed; Andrew Marr’s History of the World); moving interviews (the pilot’s daughter in The First World War From Above; the children of Grenfell Tower in Channel 4’s Alternative Christmas Message); gripping, historical investigations (Who Do You Think You Are; The Umbrella Assassin); and striking political profiles (Obama: The President Who Inspired The World; The Making of Merkel).
To see more clips from Mark’s films, please go to the Films page.