Chosen People
A feature length film documentary following the lives of ten families living on four continents since they were first photographed by MAGNUM photographers in 1947. 99 mins, BBC 2.
King Jamie and the Angel
Children's drama series. Imaginative biography of Mary Queen of Scots' son James, who united Scotland and England to form the United Kingdom. 5 X 15 mins, Channel 4 Learning.
The Real Tartan Army
History series about the great Scottish regiments that built the British Empire and fought in two World Wars. 13 X 30 mins, BBC Scotland.
Execution at Camp 21
Documentary for C4's Secret History strand and the History Channel. The extraordinary story of a murder by hard-line Nazis in a British prisoner of war camp. 50 mins, Channel 4.
Off With McGough
The Sun Worshippers
Drama-doc on the work of pioneer photographers Hill and Adamson. 60 mins, BBC/Scottish Screen.
Scotland's History: The Top Ten
My Husband's Gay
A 'Real Families' film for ITV 1
Secret History | Channel 4 Television 1998
Made for Channel 4’s Secret History strand, Execution at Camp 21 tells the story of the murder of Wolfgang Rosterg in German POW Camp 21 at Comrie in Scotland, by a lynch mob of Nazi hardliners.
The story began in 1944 in Devizes POW camp, Wiltshire, when Allied Intelligence officers believed they had thwarted a daring mass break out by hard-core SS troops. The plotters were interrogated and transferred to Comrie, a “black camp” where only the toughest Nazis were held. They believed that the anti-Nazi Rosterg – by a chilling mistake wrongly thrust into the lion’s den – had betrayed their Devizes plan. Rosterg was subjected to a brutal kangaroo court, and found battered and hanging from a makeshift noose the next morning. Despite their pleas that they were the scapegoats for the actions of a mob, seven men were arrested, tried and hanged by the British authorities – the largest mass execution in British history.
Was Wolfgang Rosterg a traitor to the Fatherland – or the victim of British Intelligence and deluded Nazi fanatics
Credits
Narrator | Tom Watson
Consultant | Roddy de Normann
Camera | Bob Batchelor
Sound | Martin Belshaw
Editor | Gary Scott
Associate Producer | Dunja Noack
Producer | Seona Robertson
Director | Alistair Scott
Further Information
Execution at Camp 21 is available for sale through Channel 4 International.