Martin Pepler has over 50 years of experience in film and television production. He has worked as a producer, director, editor, and writer on documentaries, drama series, and feature films for broadcasters including the BBC, Channel 4, and CBC. Some of his notable credits include the documentary series Skint, The One Show, and Growing Out of Crime for the BBC, as well as the feature films Bells and Cold Stone Dead. Pepler has worked extensively in both the UK and North America.

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Martin Pepler
Flat 2 No 8 Ellenborough Park South
Weston Super Mare
BS23 1XW
01934 261 088
07970548129
pepler20@yahoo.co.uk
2014-2015
Stroud Auctions Book Specialist
2010-14
Break from editing whilst writing and publishing a book. Restoring a
Medieval hall.
2008/2009
Seaside Rescue 3 episodes
Producer Chris Hutchins. for BBC Bristol 3 episodes
2007/2008
The One Show
BBC Bristol
Meet the Immigrants
prod Julian Mercer Dir Liz Allen for BBC 1(2x30)
Bear Grylls 2 episodes
Mission to Everest
and Sahara produced by Diverse Bristol
The History ofthe World Backwards
6 part drama and archive series for BBC
Written by Robert Newman
The One Show“Animals”
For BBC NHU
It’s not easy being green
BBC series with Dick Strawbridge 3x30mins
Producer Chris Hutchins Exec Julian Mercer
2006
Skint
2nd series for BBC about living on the poverty line (3x30) (1x40)
series producer Nick Woodruf
Growing out of Crime
presented by Monty Don. Series helping young offenders through organic farming
BBC Birmingham
2005
Pay off your Mortgage
How to pay off your mortgage in 2 years. Series for BBC Birmingham .
Country Cops
Series for Diverse Films on a police station on the Yorkshire Moors. (10x30) Series Producer Jane Lomas
2004
Danger on the Beach
BBC series on the rescue services on the SW Coast of the UK (3x30)
Series Prod Sue Kennet

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Skint
Series for BBC on people living on the poverty line (3x30)
Series producer Chris Hutchin
The Last Tommy
Story of the last surviving WW1 veterans
2 X 1 hours for BBC London Ex Adam Kemp
Floggit Auction series for BBC Bristol Prod John Miller Exec Jane Lomas
2003
Driving Test
Series for Granada Bristol.
produced by Harvey Lilly and Directed by Will Yapp
The Million Pound Experiment
Property series 60 min duration's Exec Prod Tessa Finch BBC Bristol (3x60mins)
2002
200 year house
A series of six one hours for Channel 4 Produced by Flashback TV Bristol..
Peter Singer
40 minutes profile on Australian author and philosopher Peter Singer who coined the term ‘Animal Liberation.’
Director Tuppence Stone, Exec Prod Mike Poole. For BBC Knowledge
2001
A Life of Grime “Grime Files”
3 progs. Director Tuppence Stone, Exec Prod Tessa Finch.. For BBC 1 Bristol.
Back to the Ironage
BBC Bristol series sending 17 people to live in a genuine Iron age fort in Wales.
Director Emma Wooster, Exec Prod Tessa Finch.. For BBC Bristol
Necropolis
Channel 4 I hour documentary on exhumation. Directed by Dominic Ozanne.
2000
DON ROAMIN
Channel 4 pilot produced by David Edgar for Flashback TV London.
MARRY ME
Observational documentary series for BBC Bristol (first 5 of 15 progs)
Prod Jane Lomas/Exec Producer Tessa Finch
1999
TRUST ME IM A DOCTOR For BBC Science Features
TONY’S PEOPLE:BLAIR’S BRITAIN
Channel 4 Series. Prod Helen Richards Exec Stephen Lambert.
WORKERS AT WAR - REVENGE
Director Patrick Holland, Prod Alex Holmes. For BBC 1
1998
VETS IN PRACTICE
Series 4 (4 episodes) BBC Bristol.
ESTATE AGENTS
Observational documentary series.

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Prod Nick Shearman, Exec Prod Grant Mansfield (3 episodes). For Channel 4.
THE HEALTH VISITOR
40 minutes documentary for BBC2.
Directed by Fran Landsman, Prod by Mark Fielder, Exec Prod Sam Organ.
CLAMPERS
Observational documentary series for BBC 1. Prod by Stephen Lambert.
1997
VETS IN PRACTICE
BBC Bristol (20 ep) Prod Nick Shearman, Exec Prod Grant Mansfield
DRIVINGSCHOOL
BBC Bristol (4 ep) Director Franchesca Joseph,Prod Mark Fielder, Exec Prod Grant Mansfield.
1996
VETS’ SCHOOL
BBC Bristol (6 ep) Prod Nick Sherman, Prod Grant Mansfield.
ALONE
60 min drama on Polar explorer and aviator Admiral Byrd.
Directed by Ken Kirby, Produced by Cafe Prods for NBC.
THE PICKARDS
60 Minutes documentary of the first men into the stratosphere and the deepest ocean trench.
Director David Ash, Prod by Cafe Productions for NBC.
RAMADAN
BBC documentary. Directed by Ian Levinson Prod by Belinda Giles for Sole Purpose Prods.
AFRICA EXPRESS
Prod by Barraclough and Carey. Dir by Andy Stevenson and Bill Locke. Exec Prod Peter Gill.
1995
PEOPLE’S CENTURY:GOD FIGHTS BACK
Directed by Dominic Ozanne Prod Peter Pagnamenta.
EVERYMAN : TURIN SHROUD
Dir by Nicky Stockley. Prod by David Paradine Productions for BBC and USA sales.
GREAT ORMAN STREET
BBC doc series. Director Richard Alwyn, Prod Jeremy Mills.
1994
DEADLINE
Six part T.V series for Channel Four filmed in newsroom of Yorkshire T.V.
Director Leanne Pooley and Bernard Hall. Prod by Real Life Productions.
EVERYMAN: MARY’S MIRACLE
The story of a weeping Virgin Mary.
Director Karen Rodger, Series Editor John Drury.
EVERYMAN:GOD’S CANDIDATES
The contenders for the next Pope. Dir /Prod by Leanne Pooley. Series Editor John Drury.
EVERYMAN : THE HAPPY MEDIUM
Psychic medium Mavis Pattilla
Director Krishna Govender. Series Editor John Blake.
1993
EVERYMAN:WANTED FAMILIES

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50 minutes documentary on adoption
Director Richard Alwyn. Series Editor John Blake.
EVERYMAN:MISTER SEAN
50 minutes documentary on the life of Sean Deverau,a UNICEF aid worker murdered in Somalia. BAFTA award.
Director Richard Alwyn. Series Editor John Blake.
1992
EVERYMAN:A JOB FOR LIFE
Documentary on coal-pit closures.
Director Richard Alwyn. Series Editor John Blake.
PRINCES ARMY
BBC 1 hour documentary on Prince Charles’s Volunteers
Director Anne Taylor. Prod Jill Dawson.
1991
GLOBAL REPORT:MIRIAM
50 minutes documentary about a murdered Harlem woman.
Director Richard Alwyn. Prod Peter Firstbrook.
BEHIND THE MYTH:CEAUSESCU
1 hour documentary co-prod by BBC. PBS and French TVDirector Anthony Geffin. Writer Edward Behr. N.B.
Ceausescu was nominated for 1992 Emmy.
1990
THE SENSES
BBC Music and Arts documentary on Sound. Directed by Richard Alwyn. Prod Keith Alexander.
1989
A GIFT OF THE GAB
Three one hour docs on orators prod by Ludovic Kennedy Dir Dennis Moriarty. Writer Ludovic Kennedy.
TIMEWATCH:MEMPHIS CAPITAL OF EGYPT
1 hour documentary Dir Dennis Moriarty. Prod Roy Davies.
1988
ARENA:TARKOVSKY
1 hour documentary on the Russian film maker. Director Charlie Pattinson. Prod Nigel Finch.
1984
Returned to the UK from North America after an absence of 18 years.
WORK IN NORTH AMERICA
1982
FEATURE FILM:
“BELLS”
Starring Richard Chamberlain. Director Michael Anderson.
1980-81
FEATURE FILM:
“COLD STONE DEAD”
Starring Richard Crenna and John Williams. Directed by George Mendalock.
FEATURE FILM
“A MAN CALLED INTREPID”.
Starring David Niven, Michael York and Barbara Hershey. Dir Peter Carter Prod Lorimar .
1978

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LORIMAR FILMS
Three part T.V series “A man called Intrepid.”
MATT & JENNY
TV series about two children in search of their parents in the North America of the 1850s. ( 16 0f 26 episodes) Manitou
Prods
1977
THE JESUS TRIAL
Six one hour films on the history of Christianity.
Presenter Christopher Plummer, Director Taddeus Jaworski.
RAKU FIRE
90 minutes CBC TV drama starring Aileen Atkins. Directed by Ronald Weyman.
RIM SHOTS
CBC 1 hour comedy pilot starring John Candy. Director George Bloomfield.
1976
FEATURE FILM
“LOVE IS A LONG SHOT”.
Director George Bloomfield.
1975
FEATURE FILM
“THE MAN INSIDE”
Starring Stephanie Powers and Tony Franciscus. Directed by Gerry Mayer. Prod Wilton Shiller.
1974
SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON:
Supervising editor for 12 episodes of this TV series.
Directed by Gerry Mayer. Prod W. Shiller. Co-prod by Canadian/British.
POLICE SURGEON
U.S. drama series (cut 15 out of a series of 26) Producer Wilton Shiller.
1966-1973
CANADIAN BROADCASTINGCORPORATION
Joined CBC as film assistant in 1966 became film editor in 1970.
In house film editor cutting docs, dramas and series. Information on request.
1965
Timmins N Ontario worked as labourer in Tin Mine
Smiths Bookshop trainee sales manager Toronto
Robert Simpson. Selling ladies shoes
Immigrated to Canada
1964-1965
Assistant Editor Grampian Press Hammersmith.
1963-1964
Assistant Editor Fountain Press Chancery Lane London
1962-1963
Engineering apprentice at Sadia Water Heaters Southall Middx
1962
9 Wandsworth Comprehensive school left with 5 0 level GCEs.

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1945
Born Kensington London