ITV1 in the meantime is preparing Wall of Silence, a drama documentary about the 1997 murder of teenager Jamie Robe.

BBC: Curtain up on 2004's TV

Children's favourite Teletubbies won the best pre-school category and the best schools' factual award went to the drama documentary History File: Nazi Germany.

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In the same year she starred in the anti-apartheid drama-documentary Come back, Africa, about the lives of migrant workers living in Johannesburg's townships.

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The BBC Aftershock season has taken the collapse of the US investment giant Lehman Brothers 12 months ago as inspiration for drama and documentary.

BBC: This week: Culture and the crash

It also showed women were more likely to work in the documentary, drama and animated film genres.

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While he made visits to the island and brought friends to stay at his new house, his career as a documentary and drama film maker was beginning to soar.

BBC: The tale of the 'vanishing house' on Tory Island

World Service radio drama The Day that Lehman Died covers the same period, as does BBC documentary The Love of Money.

BBC: This week: Culture and the crash

Children's drama Tracy Beaker was also a winner, while CBBC's Newsround won best programme for their documentary on autism.

BBC: Fred West drama Appropriate Adult wins RTS awards

Kennedy and the red-tailed hawks were the subject of an award-winning documentary, Pale Male and a book, Red-Tales in Love: A Wildlife Drama in Central Park by Marie Winn.

NPR: The Birdman of Central Park

For those of you not fully conversant with the drama that is Star Wars: Behind the Scenes - or The People v George Lucas as a recent documentary put it - there has been an ongoing furore about George Lucas meddling with his masterpieces.

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