Known for Acting
Journalist Peter Taylor reveals the story of how a former undercover MI5 officer put his life and career on the line to encourage the IRA to end its violent campaign and embrace politics.
In a uniquely personal journey to mark the centenary of the partition of Ireland in 1921, award-winning reporter Peter Taylor revisits the films he has made over the past 50 years to reflect on the controversial issue of a united Ireland. With frank and intimate observations, Peter reveals how his own understanding of the issue has evolved: from the early days when he took a Hull bus driver and his wife to Belfast, and a group of Catholic and Protestant children to Wales, to his revelatory interviews with MI6 officers and others involved in the secret talks between the British government and the IRA that eventually led to peace.
In a uniquely personal journey on the 50th anniversary of the deployment of British troops in August 1969, Peter Taylor reflects on almost a half century of covering the Northern Ireland conflict.
Peter Taylor has been covering the conflict in Northern Ireland for more than 40 years. On the 20th anniversary of the 1994 ceasefires, he makes a personal assessment of who really 'won the war'.
How does the fictional world of spying compare with the reality? Peter Taylor looks at the real world of modern spies.
Peter Taylor explores the impact and legacy of four major acts of terror from the last 30 years
A look at the spread of Al-Qaeda in the UK
It was the most notorious terrorist incident since the Gunpowder Plot - an attempt by the IRA to wipe out the entire UK government on 12 October 1984 as it convened on the south coast. Award-winning journalist Peter Taylor remembers the carnage as special effects and emotional testimony from survivors combine in a tense reconstruction. Followed by The Hunt for the Bomber.
Brighton bomber Patrick Magee talks exclusively to Peter Taylor about how and why he planted a bomb in the Grand Hotel, while intelligence experts and bomb specialists speak for the first time about how they foiled a follow-up campaign on an even more devastating scale.
Three part documentary series relating to the activities of the British army and security services during Northern Ireland's Troubles.
