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Video Diaries — Storyline

Video Diaries was a BBC television programme produced by the Community Programme Unit. The series of programmes was created in 1990 by producer Jeremy Gibson. The programme's production team offered members of the public basic video training and ongoing support. The diarist was then left to gather their material with a camcorder. They would then have further support in editing and post-production

During 1991 – 1992 Bob Long was a producer. By 1993 the programmes was developed into the Video Nation project.

Cast & Crew

• Created by: Jeremy Gibson

Video Diaries — Series Details

Video Diaries — Episode Guide

Season 1

• E1: Pagan Belfast (1990-04-21) — Successful young novelist Robert Wilson goes home to Belfast after six years of voluntary exile in England. By turns hilarious, miserable, angry and hopeful his 'diary' is a refres
• E2: Three Weeks in Calcutta (1990-04-28) — A young Londoner, Lisa Chidell, makes an emotionally draining visit to Calcutta, where she becomes immersed in the struggles of the Marie Stopes family planning agency which is fac
• E3: My Demons (1990-05-12) — In her adult life, artist Willa Carroll has battled severe emotional problems, the result of the physical abuse that she suffered in her American childhood. In this remarkable diar
• E4: Spike and Clinton (1990-05-19) — Spike Ambrose and Clinton Smith both live in a hostel for homeless teenagers in London's run-down King's Cross area. Their frank record of contemporary teenage life, both inside an
• E5: Just for the Record (1990-05-26) — David Francis's plan to record family relationships changed when his grandmother became ill. His video diary became a difficult portrayal of the effects of bereavement on both his

Season 2

• E1: On the March with Bobby's Army (1991-05-11) — Kevin Allen, a 28-year-old actor and long time 'student of the game', has made a unique fan's-eye view of the 1990 World Cup football finals in Italy in this 'road movie'. Armed on
• E2: Off the Rails (1991-05-18) — Stephen Hawthorne 's parents discovered he was gay two years ago. Rather than face them he left home. In his absorbing and humorous diary he tries to open a dialogue with his paren
• E3: Au Revoir Stepney (1991-05-25) — Artist Vicky Hawkins and marble mason Tony Chircop had lived in London's East End all their lives. When, last year in France, they discovered the farmhouse of their dreams, they de
• E4: Surviving Memories (1991-06-01) — Jo Spence discovered she had lymphatic leukaemia, and possibly the return of the cancer she thought she conquered eight years ago. Until then, she and her brother Mike Clode , who
• E5: The Man Behind the Shotgun (1991-06-08) — Jack Murton is serving a 12-year prison sentence for armed robbery. Destined to a lifetime pattern of crime and prison, his outlook was challenged by the suicide of a close friend
• E6: War, Lives and Videotape (1991-06-29) — Photojournalist Nick Danziger is no stranger to the horrific suffering and imagery of war. Two years ago in Kabul, Afghanistan he discovered a group of orphans, abandoned in a dere
• E7: In Black and White or in Colour (1991-07-06) — As a young Brazilian film-maker, Sergio Goldenberg is normally concerned with serious issues such as the rainforest or street kids; but for his video diary he points the camera at
• E8: Sweet S.A. (1991-07-13) — Fritz Joubert and his black British wife Jenni left London to try starting a new life in South Africa. Fritz had fled his country six years ago to avoid being conscripted into the
• E9: Promise You Won't Let Them Out on the Street (1991-07-20) — Steve Cribb is an active campaigner for Civil Rights. He is also disabled and lives his life with the help of a team of volunteers in London. For three months, he recorded his day-
• E10: Crossing the Frontier of Fire (1991-07-27) — When photographer Mirella Ricciardi travelled to the Brazilian rainforest to capture images of its endangered people, she developed an intriguing relationship with her young assist

Season 3

• E1: Teenage Diaries: Justice Sucks (1992-06-06) — Justice Sucks is 16-year-old Vonnie's story. At 12, she was taken into care by the social services after being abused by her stepfather. Thus began an unhappy journey through a suc
• E2: Teenage Diaries: In Bed with Chris Needham (1992-06-13) — Seventeen-year-old Chris Needham is Loughborough's leading heavy-metal philosopher. He's putting together a band – but Manslaughter's bassist has no bass, the drummer can't play an
• E3: Teenage Diaries: The World's Greatest Director (1992-06-20) — Aged 13, Daniel Moss thinks life is too short to wait for adulthood before starting on the ladder to success. His unrelenting sprint on the path to greatness leaves a trail of exha
• E4: Teenage Diaries: The Daughter Sent from Hell (1992-06-27) — Jennifer is 15 and desperately wants to be "a normal teenage girl", but she has what she declares to be a disadvantage – her mother is severely disabled with multiple sclerosis. Sh
• E5: Teenage Diaries: Julie Through the Looking Glass (1992-07-04) — Julie is severely anorexic and lives with five other anorexic girls in a special home. Her camera is her intimate and only friend, to which she reveals her life with shocking hones
• E6: Teenage Diaries: Raging Bullock (1992-07-11) — For Ben May , living in Peckham and boxing mad, adolescence is not an angst-ridden phase full of problems, it is simply an extended training session on the road to a professional b
• E7: Teenage Diaries: Between Two Worlds (1992-07-18) — At 13, Rachel has been a traveller most of her life. She has never been to school, and her home is wherever the old converted coaches and tepees happen to be. Her mother is part of
• E8: Searching for a Killer (1992-07-25) — While in Haiti during the 1987 election, Geoffrey Smith and a friend stumbled across a horrific massacre at a polling station. A gunman returned to the scene and opened fire, killi
• E9: Desperately Seeking Nessie (1992-08-01) — At the age of 28, Steve Feltham was dissatisfied with his life and work installing burglar alarms in Dorset. When a friend asked him what he would really like to do, he replied, "F
• E10: The Reluctant Mamoushka (1992-08-08) — Last year Edel O'Brien went to Russia as unpaid chaperone to nine Irish teenage girls beginning their first term at the Perm Ballet School. With no school lessons or activities set
• E11: Elvis: The Yorkshire Years (1992-08-15) — After 12 years, singer and Elvis impersonator Scott Davis feels trapped and disillusioned by the pub and club circuit of the north east. He rebels against his agent and, in true Ho
• E12: Not a Transvestite (1992-08-22) — All her life, Mjka Scott has battled with her sexual identity. As Michael she was a truck driver, a stuntman and an actor. She married and became a father but finally decided to be
• E13: The Man Who Loves Gary Lineker (1992-08-29) — Rural GP Dr Ylli Hasani risked imprisonment in totalitarian Albania by listening to the BBC World Service to keep up to date with world events, especially English football.

  His fi

• E14: My Demons – The Legacy (1992-09-05) — In 1990, Willa Woolston returned to America to persuade her sisters to join with her in uncovering a buried family history of violence inflicted on them by their stepmother. The vi
• E15: Family Scenes, Stones and M16s: A Settler's Story of Samaria (1992-12-17) — The controversial situation of the Jewish settlers in Palestine (beyond the "green line"), is represented through the everyday life of the Oppenheim family. The action goes back 15

Season 4

• E1: Teenage Diaries: Natalie's Baby (1993-07-24) — Finding herself pregnant at 14, Natalie never even thought about having an abortion.

  Instead she set out to live up to her responsibility with the support of her boyfriend and fam

• E2: Teenage Diaries: Cheaptalk and Blinker-Blinker (1993-07-31) — David Antunes "Cheaptalk", 13, and Valter Antunes "Blinker-Blinker", 15, are part of a family of musicians who play the clubs and cafes of the thriving Portuguese community in Lond
• E3: Teenage Diaries: The Bad Sax Guide (1993-08-07) — At 13, Polly is a bright and articulate girl who leads a normal teenage life but develops an extreme terror of school. Confused, she searches for a sympathetic environment in which
• E4: Teenage Diaries: Anyha and the Temple of Doom (1993-08-14) — Anyha is 12. She lives in Bristol with her single-parent mum, is mad on sport and dreams of Olympic stardom. She also wants to go on holiday with her mother but that's not easy on
• E5: Teenage Diaries: Wet Dreams (1993-08-21) — Gabriel Davies dreams of surfing in Hawaii but has to make do with the polluted waves off England's north-east coast. But now he has an unexpected invitation to compete in South Af
• E6: Teenage Diaries: In and Out of Africa (1993-08-28) — Josephine Okelo lives in Nairobi, Kenya, with her wealthy family. At 17, feeling the need to establish her own identity, she leapt at the chance of a place at Marlborough College i
• E7: Major, the Miners and Me (1993-09-04) — Miner's wife Brenda Nixon uncovers the effects, both dramatic and more intimate, of the recent pit closures on herself, her marriage and her children. Her routine life as a housewi
• E8: Time for Tom (1993-09-11) — A mother records with uncompromising honesty the end of the life of her 4-year-old son. Aged 10 months, Tom was diagnosed as suffering from Tay Sachs disease and given only a few y
• E9: Grope – The Movie (1993-09-18) — When two writers were told that their sitcom Grope was a touch too bawdy for broadcasting, they decided to turn it into a play and produce it themselves – a tough task when you're
• E10: Dying for Publicity (1993-09-25) — Photo-journalist Chris Steel-Perkins 's video record of the effect of media attention on Somalia's famine.
• E11: Love Is the Drug (1993-10-02) — Jane married Steve at the age of 19. Three years later she found herself in New York with two young daughters and a husband addicted to crack cocaine. She escaped back to England t
• E12: Blood, Sweat and Cheers (1993-10-09) — Four evenings a week Robbie Brookside, a top professional wrestler, plays the town halls of Britain. But while the characters of the American scene are TV superstars, Brookside ear
• E13: Rebel Without a Pause (1993-10-16) — At the age of 20 Bob was fighting in the Spanish Civil War. He is now 77, and wants a memorial established in recognition of the dead. He travels to Spain to lobby the Spanish auth
• E14: Ice-Cream Justice (1993-10-23) — Thom Campbell was convicted in 1984 for six murders during the so-called "ice-cream wars' in Glasgow. Consistently protesting his innocence, he campaigned for a re-trial, going on

Season 5

• E1: Mad, Bad or Sad (1994-09-14) — The first of eight programmes offers an unprecedented insight into the lives of the mentally ill, as told by a woman who has been diagnosed schizophrenic.
• E2: The Life and Loves of a Sea Devil (1994-09-21) — Nineteen-year-old Rob Hunt loves the sea. At least he loves surfingand swimming and soaking up the rays. What he doesn't like, as becomes clear in this film he made himself, is dee
• E3: By Any Means Necessary (1994-09-28) — Tony Thomas-Hall is an athlete trainingforthe World Games in Berlin in a bid to become the fastest above-the-knee amputee. Formerly an able-bodied athlete, Tony developed cancer at
• E4: The Cuban Nipple Crisis (1994-10-05) — Photographer Paul Harvey offers an insight into the supposedly glamorous world of photographers' models and exotic locations, as Fidel Castro's communist enclave plays host to the
• E5: Ratcatcher (1994-10-12) — Council ratcatcher Paul Taylor knows about fascism. He says: " I was a Nazi when I was an active member of the National Front". Now he is an activist with the Anti-Nazi League. He
• E6: Sunshine 13 (1994-10-19) — After twenty-five years of being a hard-working cabbie and single parent, Maria Perriera is determined to spend the rest of her days in Antigua. Family tensions explode as she prep
• E7: Raiders of the Lost Lake (1994-10-26) — Benedict Allen is an adventurer and real-life Indiana Jones. But the snakes, alligators and big cats in his jungle are not part of a Hollywood set. They are very real. When offered
• E8: Living with the Enemy (1994-11-02) — Captain Richard Bramford's first posting as a UN military observer is to the heart of Serbian Bosnia. His diary offers a glimpse behind the scenes in this the last programme in the

Season 6

• E1: Suitable Boy (1996-06-20) — Omerjit Brar, a 19-year-old aspiring model, longs for excitement in her life. In spite of being discouraged by a top agency, she enters the Miss Asia UK competition to help her car
• E2: Chester PD Blue (1996-06-27) — As part of Chester police's new pro-active squad, Detective Constable Tim Roberts fights on the frontline in the escalating war against drugs. After setting up surveillance operati
• E3: Steve, Su and Alice Too (1996-07-04) — Steve and Su Pearce have tried almost everything to have a family of their own. When they decide to adopt a baby from China, they embark on a process that is fraught with difficult
• E4: Year Zero (1996-07-11) — Coinciding with South African president Nelson Mandela's first state visit to Britain, this film charts the first year of democracy for three people from Kwazulu-Natal who, having
• E5: Child Slave Rescue (1996-10-19) — The first in this four-part documentary series travels to India to tell the story of Kailash

  Satyarthi, whose organisation attempts to rescue children from the country's child sla

• E6: Oils and Oilskins (1996-10-26) — Lifeboat coxswain Eric Ward comes from St Ives, Cornwall, a town known both for its fishing industry and its vibrant artistic community. Ten years ago, Eric applied brush to canvas
• E7: Ghostbuster – the Real Thing (1996-11-02) — Maurice Grosse , aged 76, is a psychic investigator. In 1977 he led the team that hunted the Enfield poltergeist, a widely publicised event which he says inspired the hit Hollywood
• E8: Show Boys – the Naked Truth (1996-11-10) — Zeus is 23-year-old Justin Richards's alter-ego, a body-beautiful male stripper who parades in front of adoring men and women at gay clubs and hen parties.

  This uninhibited accoun

Frequently Asked Questions

How many seasons does Video Diaries have? 9 season(s) with 74 episodes.

Who created Video Diaries? Jeremy Gibson.

Where can I watch Video Diaries? See the Where to Watch section above for current streaming options.