Filmed over two years, this series had a huge impact on the whole team. Years later, people from the series still contact me regularly.

The films document the lives of people who had fallen through the cracks in Blair’s Britain.

Stacey: Stacey was a prostitute, walking the same streets where Jack the Ripper found his victims a century ago. I watched the film with Stacey when it was first shown on Channel 4. A few months later Stacey tragically died. I was proud to speak at her funeral and I often think of her.

Petrolman: Jill and Steve Bolton lived in a car when we met them and were struggling to stay in touch with their young son who had been taken into care. Addicted to crack, Steve funds their habit stealing petrol from local service stations…