When Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of the Labour Party, BBC Panorama aired an anti-Corbyn programme – Jeremy Corbyn Labour’s Earthquake – about the rise of Jeremy Corbyn’s popularity in what was then called a hatchet job by Corbyn’s team:
But the programme was not made by the BBC. It was made by a private production company called Films of Record whose managing director and executive producer was at that time someone by the name of Neil Grant.
Another anti-Corbyn programme was aired about a year later on a different channel – Channel 4’s Dispatches. The programme – Battle for the Labour Party – is so anti-Corbyn, it prompted a written complaint to the producer about the programme’s “inaccuracies” and “slurs”.
But the programme was also not made by Channel 4. It was made by exactly the same private production company – Films of Record:
The same Films of Record whose managing director and executive producer was still someone called Neil Grant:
Which brings us to the latest anti-Corbyn programme aired this week attacking Labour with antisemitism smears.
Who was the Executive Producer?
Yep. The same Neil Grant, now no longer working for Films of Record but still very much being used as an executive producer by Panorama:
So who exactly is this Neil Grant, being given massive mounts of airtime across the airwaves on UK broadcasting media to attack Corbyn?
An investigative journalist?
Nope. Just an anti-Corbynite former Labour activist and former Brent East Labour Party chair who has had a 20-year political falling out with Ken Livingstone.
And while we’re on the same subject, who is Rachel Jupp, the Editor of the same Panorama programme:
Just the sister-in-law of anti-Corbynite Labour MP Helen Hayes who once signed a vote of no-confidence in Corbyn.
That’s all.
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Films of record are owned by Zinc Media Group – who make TV right across the freeview landscape.
A major shareholder of Zinc is one J Goodwin – who may well be the same Johnnie Goodwin who is also involved in media as well as planning a “merchant bank for mega-rich millennials’
https://www.ft.com/content/86fb1620-bd81-11e8-8274-55b72926558f
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For any politicaly based program – ALWAYS check the credits to see what is going on behind the scenes to find out what axe is being ground, and by who.
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Re. Zinc Media, a former Director of this company is Brian Walden, former Labour MP, appointed as Chairman on 30 July 2001 and resigned on 30 March 2015.
He was also Chairman of Ten Alps TV Ltd from 30 July 2001 until 31 December 2009.
Walden died on 9 May 2019 on St. Peter Port, Jersey.
Oh, what a tangled web of deception is being spun here over such a long time…..
There are a whole lot of interlinking individuals and companies here.
Another name that keeps cropping up above is someone named Leo Telling.
Yet, I can find out no information anywhere on the internet about him/her.
Does anyone else have information on this individual?
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Don’t know if this is the same Leo Telling mentioned further down in comments ?


Leo Telling
Producer | Director | Writer
Panorama
Panorama
Producer
(2011-2019)
House of Saud: A Family at War
House of Saud: A Family at War
Producer
(2018)
Frontline
Frontline
Producer
(2018)
Known For
Are We There Yet?
Are We There Yet?
Producer
(2007)
Panorama
Panorama
(2011-2019)
Frontline
Frontline
(2018)
House of Saud: A Family at War
House of Saud: A Family at War
(2018)
Deepcut: The Army’s Shame
Deepcut: The Army’s Shame
(2016)
Afghanistan: The Unknown Country
Afghanistan: The Unknown Country
(2011)
Afghanistan: The Battle for Helmand
Afghanistan: The Battle for Helmand
(2011)
Are We There Yet?
Are We There Yet?
(2007)
Kilroy: Behind the Tan
Kilroy: Behind the Tan
(2005)
Producer
Afghanistan: War Without End
Afghanistan: War Without End
(2004)
Panorama
Panorama
(2011-2019)
Frontline
Frontline
(2018)
House of Saud: A Family at War
House of Saud: A Family at War
(2018)
Writer
Panorama
Panorama
(2014)
Camera and Electrical Department
Panorama
Panorama
(2019)
Cinematographer
Panorama
Panorama
(2016)
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Cathy,
Thank for the information on the films he has been involved in.
However, there is nothing like a Wikipedia entry for him – which is unusual.
He wrote one letter to The Observer some years ago on football. hooliganism.
There is a photograph of him at an event in Dublin.
Other than that, I can find nothing whatsoever about Leo Telling on the internet.
A real mystery man, our Leo Telling.
Why is that?
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Neil Grant first made a name for himself at Mentorn, working for fellow Jewish TV Executive, John Willis, who was chairman of BAFTA at the time when Grant won his award there!
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Leo Telling’s piece on football was investigating RW Hooligans.
https://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/letter-from-leo-telling-26861034.html
Also:
https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bc02f367a
But yes, very mysterious person
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and here:
https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-archive/northern-ireland-affairs/niacpn130910/
Because of this? :
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03jprmx
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