Lucie Kon

Lucie Kon is a British Journalist and TV Producer who has worked across a range of genres – making some of the most well-respected and influential news and current affairs programmes, as well as live events and magazine shows, observational documentaries, specialist, popular and constructed factual.

Currently known for her work as Executive Producer on BBC Panorama, in the early days of the Covid pandemic, she was one of the first in the UK to highlight a looming cancer crisis, collaborating with the team on the award-winning 5 live podcast, You Me and The Big C team, influencer and cancer campaigner, Deborah James, @bowelbabe to produce, Britain's Cancer Crisis which sparked a national campaign run by the parents of one of the contributors to the film, Kelly Smith, whose chemotherapy was stopped at the start of the crisis and died just ten days after being interviewed. Kelly's parents began with a petition calling for cancer care in the NHS to return to pre-covid levels and have since had the backing of Parliamentarians and other notable figures. Other credits during the pandemic included a film with Victoria Derbyshire, Escaping My Abuser, with newcomer Kash Jones, Has Covid Stolen My Future? and on the first anniversary of the start of the first lockdown, with Jane Corbin, Covid: Who Got It Right?

Lucie won BAFTA, Grierson and International Emmy nominations for another landmark documentary filmed during the 2014 Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone. Ebola: A Doctor's Story Archived 2021-05-16 at the Wayback Machine was broadcast on HBO and Panorama: Ebola Frontline, on the BBC.

Lucie was Executive Producer of the powerful and brutally honest documentary about anorexia for Channel 4's Dispatches. Wasting Away: The Truth About Anorexia was referred to by The Guardian as 'a brutally honest account' in which Mark Austin (journalist) argued for better NHS treatment for patients with eating disorders. Lucie has executive produced other agenda-setting films for Channel 4 including The Secrets of Sports Direct which became a catalyst for a national campaign that led to the owner of the high street giant being called before Parliament and sweeping changes to the company’s employment practices. It was shortlisted for a Wincott Award for Business Journalism. How to Buy A Meeting With A Minister an investigation into the world of political lobbying.

In 2017, Lucie was Series Producer and Director of BBC Two series We Are British Jews in which eight British Jews with a broad range of opinions, beliefs and practices, explore what it means to be Jewish in Britain today, examining some of the most pressing questions and challenges facing their community at home and in Israel - "commendably calm and respectful", according to a review in the Daily Telegraph, https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/factual/we-are-british-jews-bbc2/5132114.article

BAFTA Awards 2014

References

St Helen's School Northwood/ Notable Alumnae/ Lucie Kon

St Helen's School Features on BBC Panorama

• BBC, BBC Blog (2017). "The Making of We Are British Jews".
• imdb, Lucie Kon (2021). "Lucie Kon credits on imdb".
• You Me and The Big C, Interview with Panorama Exec Lucie Kon (2020). "Behind the Scenes on Britain's Cancer Crisis".
• BAFTA, nominations (2015). "Ebola doc nominated for BAFTA".
• Ebola doc for BBC One (C21). "Ebola Doc".
• C21, Lucie Kon (2015). "Ebola Doc for BBC".
• HBO, HBO (2018). "Ebola: The Doctor's Story".
• Kon, Lucie (2020). "times of Israel".
• Broadcast Magazine, Broadcast Now (2017). "The Making of We Are British Jews".

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