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Brook Lapping is an internationally acclaimed independent documentary production company.
We specialise in landmark television series - including THE SECOND RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, WATERGATE, THE DEATH OF YUGOSLAVIA, ISRAEL AND THE ARABS: ELUSIVE PEACE and IRAN AND THE WEST - where participants such as Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Slobodan Milosevic, Tony Blair, Ariel Sharon, Vladimir Putin, Francois Mitterrand, Boris Yeltsin, Mikhail Gorbachev and Henry Kissinger reveal what really happened behind closed doors.
Paul Farley explores the American poet Elizabeth Bishop's extraordinary years in Brazil, and how her rootless, traveller's condition inspired her creativity. Elizabeth Bishop has been called the poets' poets' poet', and her work, ambiguous and multilayered, examines the big themes of home, travel and shifting identity. Though she's regarded as an American poet, for nearly two decades Bishop lived in Brazil, where she wrote much of her best work. Essentially an orphan from the age of five, and a constant observer, a 'foreigner everywhere', she speaks to our modern rootless condition, asking how and where we find a sense of 'home'.
9/11: Day That Changed The World is nominated in BAFTA’s Single Documentary category. The Awards ceremony is on Sunday 27 May at the Royal Festival Hall.
Putin began his career as a KGB spy. But when he became President, he made himself a valued ally of the West. How did he do it? And what made Washington and London turn against him? For the first time Putin’s top colleagues - and the Western statesmen who eventually clashed with him - tell the inside story of one of the world’s most powerful men.
'The World's Deadliest Arms Race' tells the real story of how roadside bombs, built in back street village workshops, have become the Taliban’s ‘perfect weapon’ in their war against the coalition in Afghanistan
9/11: Day That Changed The World marks the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States. The horror of the assault on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon is recalled by America's key decision-makers - the men and women at the centre of the country's power.