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Archie Baron

Production

Biography

Archie Baron is a British television executive producer and director. He joined the BBC in 1986 as a General Trainee and worked its way up to Series Producer. In 1997, Neil Cameron and Baron co-founded a factual television production company, Takeaway Media. In 2008, the duo announced the demerger of Takeaway Media. Baron launched a new, separate business, Wingspan Productions.

Known for

Filmography

2022The Real Spies Among FriendsExecutive Producer
2021Quentin Blake – The Drawing of My LifeExecutive Producer
2021Dancing on Thin Ice with Torvill & DeanExecutive Producer
2019Ian Hislop's Fake News: A True HistoryExecutive Producer
2018The Joy of AIExecutive Producer
2018The Joy of WinningExecutive Producer
2017Tunes for Tyrants: Music and Power with Suzy KleinProducer
2017Who Should We Let In? Ian Hislop on the First Great Immigration RowExecutive Producer
2017Into the WindExecutive Producer
2016The Joy of DataExecutive Producer
2015How to Be Bohemian with Victoria Coren MitchellExecutive Producer
2014Ian Hislop's Olden DaysExecutive Producer
2013The Joy of LogicExecutive Producer
2012Tails You Win: The Science of ChanceExecutive Producer
2011The Pendle Witch ChildExecutive Producer
2010The Joy of StatsExecutive Producer
2009Ian Hislop's Changing of the BardExecutive Producer
2008Joanna Lumley in the Land of the Northern LightsDirector
2003Motherland: A Genetic JourneyDirector
1982TimewatchProducer
—SpeechlessExecutive Producer

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