Nigel Farrell

Nigel George Farrell, born on 22 January 1953 in London, died 24 September 2011, was a television documentary film-maker who was a pioneer in what has been termed 'docu-soaps'. He initially followed his father into medicine, but soon entered the world of television via local journalism. He worked on programmes such as South Today and Breakfast Time, and on BBC Radio 4 appeared on Ned Sherrin’s Saturday evening show Loose Ends.

He will primarily be remembered for a 50-programme Radio 4 series called The Village (which went on to become a television series); three series of Country House set at Woburn Abbey, An Island Parish, which evolved from A Country Parish, launched in 2001 on BBC Two and a series on Channel 4 called A Place In France. He also directed and presented a 1991 TV documentary film about passengers on one of the British freight ships plying between the UK and the Caribbean, Banana Boat.