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Prior to working in television, Polly Morland read English at Oxford University where she won a Hodgson Scholarship.
During fifteen years as a documentary-maker, she worked extensively as producer/director for the BBC and for Channel Four, as well as for PBS and the Discovery Channel in the US. The subjects tackled included: the investigation of war crimes in the former Yugoslavia (The Body Hunter, BBC1, 1999), the Duke of Wellington’s love life (Wellington’s Women, C4, 2002), the reclusion of J.D. Salinger (J.D.Salinger Doesn’t Want To Talk, BBC2, 1999), the conspiracy theories surrounding 9/11 (The 9/11 Conspiracies, C4, 2004), the economics of organised crime (Underworld Rich List, BBC2, 2004), a history of cryptography (The Science of Secrecy, C4, winner of the 2001 Vega Award), the archaeology of ancient Britain (Seven Ages of Britain, C4, 2003), the rise of left wing terror groups in Europe and Latin America (The Age of Terror, Discovery, winner of the 2002 Broadcast Award for Best Multi-Channel Programme) and a controversial history of the Bible (Who Wrote the Bible? C4, 2004). From 2006 to 2009, Polly worked in-house at the BBC as a producer, devising new documentaries for BBC2 and BBC4.