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Brian Michael Lapping
CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two o ...
(born 13 September 1937) is an English
journalist A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into a newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public. This is called journalism. Roles Journalists can work in broadcast, print, advertis ...
,
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and
historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...
. Lapping is also the
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and founding member of Brook Lapping, a television and radio production company focused on the production of
historical History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some theorists categ ...
documentaries A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". The American author and media analyst Bill ...
.


Education

Lapping was educated at the City of London School for Boys, an
independent school A private school or independent school is a school not administered or funded by the government, unlike a State school, public school. Private schools are schools that are not dependent upon national or local government to finance their fina ...
in central London, followed by
Pembroke College, Cambridge Pembroke College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college is the third-oldest college of the university and has over 700 students and fellows. It is one of the university's larger colleges, with buildings from ...
, where he read for a degree in History. While at Cambridge he was a member of the university's Labour club.


Career

Lapping began his career as a journalist working for the ''
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'', ''
The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardi ...
'' and the ''
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'', before moving to producing documentaries, first for
Granada Television ITV Granada, formerly known as Granada Television, is the ITV (TV network), ITV franchisee for the North West of England and Isle of Man. From 1956 to 1968 it broadcast to both the north west and Yorkshire on weekdays only, as ABC Weekend TV, ...
, then for his own production studio Brian Lapping Associates. During the 1960s, he was also editor of ''Venture'', the Fabian Society's monthly journal, and deputy editor of the influential social science magazine ''
New Society ''New Society'' was a weekly magazine of social inquiry and social and cultural comment, published in the United Kingdom from 1962 to 1988. It drew on the disciplines of sociology, anthropology, psychology, human geography, social history and s ...
'', where he worked alongside
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. In
1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...
, Brian Lapping Associates merged with Brook Associates to form Brook Lapping Productions. Notable television productions produced by Lapping include ''Obama's White House'' (2016), ''Putin, Russia and the West'' (2011), ''The Death of Yugoslavia'' (1995) and ''End of Empire'' (1985).


Personal life

Lapping is married to Anne Lapping, and they both live in
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,
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. Lapping remains a member of The Fabian Society.


Awards


State awards

Lapping, along with his wife, was awarded the title of
Commander of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two o ...
in the 2005 Queen's New Year Honours List for services to
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. * 2005: Commander of the
Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two o ...


Media awards

* 2017: British Academy Television Award Nominee – Best Current Affairs * 2004: British Academy Television Award Nominee – Best Current Affairs * 2003: Alan Clark Award * 2003: Harvey Lee Award


Filmography

* ''Inside Obama's White House (2016)'' * '' Exposure (2015)'' * '' Putin, Russia and the West (2011)'' * '' Iran and the West (2009)'' * ''Spy Secrets (2004)'' * ''Innovation: Life, Inspired (2004)'' * ''Beauty of Snakes (2003)'' * ''I Met Adolf Eichmann (2002)'' * ''To Kill and Kill Again (2002)'' * ''Queen Victoria's Empire (2001)'' * ''Endgame in Ireland (2001)'' * ''The Fall of Milosevic (2001)'' * ''
American Experience ''American Experience'' is a television program airing on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the United States. The program airs documentaries, many of which have won awards, about important or interesting events and people in American his ...
(2000)'' * ''Finest Hour (1999)'' * ''The 50 Years War: Israel and the Arabs (1999)'' * ''Hostage: The Story of the Beirut Hostages, 1984-1991 (1999)'' * ''
The Death of Yugoslavia ''The Death of Yugoslavia'' (broadcast as ''Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation'' in the US) is a BBC documentary series first broadcast in September and October 1995, and returning in June 1996. It is also the title of a BBC book by Allan Little and ...
(1995)'' * '' Death of Apartheid (1995)'' * ''Off the Back of a Lorry (1992)'' * ''Breakthrough at Reykjavik (1987)'' * ''Apartheid (1986)'' * ''End of Empire (1985)'' * ''Cyprus: Britain's Grim Legacy (1984)'' * ''World in Action (1971–1981)'' * ''Politics What's it all About? (1980)'' * ''Chrysler and the Cabinet (1976)''


Publications

* ''End of Empire (1985)'' * ''Apartheid: A History (1987)'' * ''The State of the Nation: The Bounds of Freedom (1980)'' * ''The Labour Government, 1964-70 (1970)'' * ''More power to the people: Young Fabian essays on democracy in Britain (1968)''


See also

* Brook Lapping * Norma Percy


References

1937 births Living people Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Television producers from London People educated at the City of London School Members of the Fabian Society {{UK-tv-bio-stub