Our Daughter The Mermaid

  • Channel 4
  • 1 x 60mins
  • TX: 18/05/10

Nine-year old Shiloh Pepin wants to be just like any other girl her age, but she suffers from an extremely rare disease. She is the world’s only living mermaid.

Shiloh has Sirenomelia or ‘mermaid syndrome’, a congenital disorder that means her legs are fused together. She was …

My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding

  • Channel 4 (Cutting Edge)
  • 1 x 60mins
  • TX: 9pm 18/02/2010

Entering the world of 21st Century gypsy and traveller weddings, where ancient traditions meet modern fashions in an ostentatious culture clash, this film follows four gypsy and traveller families on their wedding day.

Considered ‘on the shelf’ at 20, in gypsy and traveller communities …

Mermaid Girl: A New Chapter

  • TLC
  • 1 x 60mins
  • TX: 11/10/2009

Shiloh Peppin who was born with an extremely rare condition known as Mermaid Syndrome. This sequel to the successful first film ‘The Little Mermaid’, will follow Shiloh as she approaches her a landmark birthday doctors told her parents she would never reach. Commissioned by TLC.

Alesha: Look But Don’t Touch

  • BBC Three
  • 1 x 60mins
  • TX: 07/07/08

In this entertaining and informative documentary, Alesha Dixon, former lead singer of Mis-teeq and winner of “BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing”, sets herself a mission. To explore the world of digital retouching, highlighting the effects that perfect air brushed images are having on young girls and teenagers …

The Seven Year-Old Surgeon

  • Five’s Extraordinary People Strand
  • 1 x 60mins
  • TX: 20/03/06

“The Seven Year-Old Surgeon” profiles Akrit Jaswal, a child prodigy from a remote village at the foothills of the Himalayas. By the age of five, Akrit was reading Shakespeare and by seven had performed his first surgical operation on an 8 year old girl.

Now …