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Visiting Fellow Peter Kosminsky wins BAFTA
"The Government Inspector" wins Best Single Drama

Writer/Director and The Media School Visiting Fellow, Peter Kosminsky has been awarded a BAFTA for his controversial documentary drama "The Government Inspector".

First shown on Channel 4 in March 2005, "The Government Inspector" covers the late Dr Kelly saga, a Weapons of Mass Destuction expert caught in a political storm between the BBC and the government. The film covers the lead up to Dr Kelly's suicide and accuses the BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan, who claimed Downing Street "sexed up" an Iraq weapons dossier, of misleading the enquiry into Kelly's death.

It is not the first time Kosminsky has been awarded by the British Academy of Film and Television having already won a long list of awards for his dramas such as "Warriors" (BBC, 1999) and "No Child of Mine" (ITV, 1997) and having recently been honoured with the Alan Clarke Lifetime Achievement for Creative Contribution to Television in 2000.

Kosminsky has been a Visiting Fellow with The Media School for 3 years. His last visit, in 2005, saw him premiere extracts from the BATFA winning "The Government Inspector" to the University and members of Wessex Media Group. He said that he was reasonably confident that he would be able to gain future commissions for programmes which pose awkward questions for those in power, but he feared it would not be easy for a new generation of programme makers to follow in his footsteps.

Peter Kosminsky continues his association with The Media School by making himself available for guest lectures and providing help and support to individual students from time to time.

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