We are a multi-award winning independent production company, creating high quality, factual content for television and radio.
Good journalism combined with stylish, contemporary production is at the heart of our brand.
Blakeway is widely acclaimed as one of Britain’s leading production companies specialising in blue chip factual programmes.
Team
Fiona Stourton
Fiona, Managing Director joined Ten Alps from the BBC where she was Executive Producer for Current Affairs, responsible for numerous award winning programmes. Since her arrival at Ten Alps, Fiona has been responsible for a slate of current affairs commissions, notably Panorama and Dispatches.
Denys Blakeway
Denys Blakeway set up Blakeway Productions in 1994. He started in television as a General Trainee with the BBC in 1980 and then worked on Newsnight and Panorama. In 1990 he left the BBC and worked as a freelance. Blakeway Productions rapidly became one of Britain’s leading production companies. He sold the company to Ten Alps Ltd in 2004.
Sarah Murch
Sarah Murch, award winning Executive Producer joined Blakeway from Granada Television.
Since her arrival at Blakeway, Murch has started developing factual programming in Manchester to complement Blakeway’s London slate of Current Affairs and Documentary Commissions – and is responsible for a range of factual commissions for an assortment of broadcasters.
Nitil Patel
A key member of the Ten Alps team from the start Nitil is a Chartered Accountant with a degree in Money, Banking, and Finance from Birmingham University. He qualified with Sayers Butterworth and after 6 years moved into the media industry by joining Planet 24 Productions as a Financial Accountant, working on such productions as The Big Breakfast. He became Financial Director of Ten Alps Communications plc in July 2001.
Bella Barr
Bella started life in TV as a runner after begging her way into a job... from there she worked her way up to Producing TV Adverts over 7 years and in the autumn of 2004 she decided that there are only so many Andrex puppies a girl can handle and moved over into factual TV production.
With the majority of her PM programme credits being Brook Lapping and Blakeway, from the policies and politics of ‘The Rise and Fall of Tony Blair’ to the frills and frocks of ‘Queen Victoria’s Men’, she has been Head of Production for Blakeway and Blakeway North since July 2008.
Selina Mehta
Head of Development, Selina Mehta joined Blakeway from the BBC where she was Head of Development for Documentaries and Specialist Features and has a string of commissions to her credit including The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon (BBC2), The Hunt for Middle England (BBC4), Olympic Dreams (BBC1) and Bank of Mum and Dad (BBC2).
Fiona Stourton
Fiona, Managing Director joined Ten Alps from the BBC where she was Executive Producer for Current Affairs, responsible for numerous award winning programmes. Since her arrival at Ten Alps, Fiona has been responsible for a slate of current affairs commissions, notably Panorama and Dispatches.
Denys Blakeway
Denys Blakeway set up Blakeway Productions in 1994. He started in television as a General Trainee with the BBC in 1980 and then worked on Newsnight and Panorama. In 1990 he left the BBC and worked as a freelance. Blakeway Productions rapidly became one of Britain’s leading production companies. He sold the company to Ten Alps Ltd in 2004.
Sarah Murch
Sarah Murch, award winning Executive Producer joined Blakeway from Granada Television.
Since her arrival at Blakeway, Murch has started developing factual programming in Manchester to complement Blakeway’s London slate of Current Affairs and Documentary Commissions – and is responsible for a range of factual commissions for an assortment of broadcasters.
Nitil Patel
A key member of the Ten Alps team from the start Nitil is a Chartered Accountant with a degree in Money, Banking, and Finance from Birmingham University. He qualified with Sayers Butterworth and after 6 years moved into the media industry by joining Planet 24 Productions as a Financial Accountant, working on such productions as The Big Breakfast. He became Financial Director of Ten Alps Communications plc in July 2001.
Bella Barr
Bella started life in TV as a runner after begging her way into a job... from there she worked her way up to Producing TV Adverts over 7 years and in the autumn of 2004 she decided that there are only so many Andrex puppies a girl can handle and moved over into factual TV production.
With the majority of her PM programme credits being Brook Lapping and Blakeway, from the policies and politics of ‘The Rise and Fall of Tony Blair’ to the frills and frocks of ‘Queen Victoria’s Men’, she has been Head of Production for Blakeway and Blakeway North since July 2008.
Selina Mehta
Head of Development, Selina Mehta joined Blakeway from the BBC where she was Head of Development for Documentaries and Specialist Features and has a string of commissions to her credit including The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon (BBC2), The Hunt for Middle England (BBC4), Olympic Dreams (BBC1) and Bank of Mum and Dad (BBC2).