The factual slate features Guy Martin: Proper Jobs, Classic Car Kings, Heist: Robbing the Bank of England, Red River Gold, and Roman Empire By Train.
International distributor BossaNova is present at Content Europe, which is taking place this week at the Marriott Hotel in Lisbon, to present its new catalog of unscripted titles and docuseries to the international market.
Leading the slate is Guy Martin: Proper Jobs: Guy Martin has never been cut out for an office job, he prefers the kind of graft that gets your hands dirty – what he calls Proper Jobs. This series Guy will join the RNLI crew at the busy Humber Lifeboat Station near his hometown of Grimsby, drill 1 mile beneath the North Sea in the UK’s last deep mine, milk dairy cows on a remote island in the Hebrides and get stuck into the hazardous world of HGV recovery.
The distributor is also presenting Classic Car Kings: In the port town of Barrow-in-Furness there is a family business with a worldwide reputation. Big Irv, his three sons and his team of 30 welders, fabricators and mechanics are renowned for bringing classic cars back from the dead. These guys are car restoration royalty, and they use all their skill and expertise to bring their clients cars back to their former glory. They cannibalise and create, cutting sections from donor cars, raiding their treasure trove of classic spares, and, when the parts simply don’t exist, adapting what they do have in their specialist workshop.
Third on the list comes Heist: Robbing the Bank of England: With unprecedented access, this two-part series tells the definitive international story of the 1990 City Bonds heist. In broad daylight, £292 million in bearer bonds were stolen from a briefcase in London. Despite being the largest street robbery in history, the crime has remained largely forgotten, until now. Thirty-five years later, Marcel Theroux is determined to get the inside story of the biggest heist you’ve never heard of. Marcel must unpick fact from fiction and decipher what really happened on May 2nd, 1990.
The distributor is also introducing Red River Gold: In 1870, a trove of gold coins disappeared without a trace. The coins were on their way to fund a military force marching across Canada to confront Louis Riel and the Métis during the Red River Resistance. The gold has never been recovered and the Royal Mint of England still considers it lost or stolen. Now, a group of treasure seekers want to find it!
Lastly, the catalog features Roman Empire by Train: Starting in Naples in southern Italy Professor Alice Roberts will travel 1500 miles by train, to make six episodes analysing the life and death of the Roman Empire. In Alice’s fourth travelogue in search of ancient civilisations, she will discover how Rome transformed from a Republic to an Empire, how it wrestled control of established trading ports, took inspiration from the Greeks and the Etruscans, built major roads, stunning temples and crafted vital water supplies, to become the dominant force in Europe, north Africa and much of Asia, for centuries.
