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Fiona Campbell

Director of factual, BBC Content

Campbell’s wide-ranging remit encompasses all factual programming, including documentaries, arts and specialist factual. The documentary slate ranges from Murder 24/7, Ambulance and Sort Your Life Out to the international feature documentary strand Storyville, which won an Oscar in 2026 for Mr Nobody Against Putin. Specialist factual is responsible for history, science, religion and natural history output, covering a broad range of programmes including Digging for Britain, Lucy Worsley’s Victorian Murder Club and Michael Jackson: An American Tragedy, as well as the BBC’s award-winning natural history content such as Hamza’s Hidden Wild Isles and Attenborough’s Blue Planet. Previously, Campbell was controller, youth audiences, for BBC iPlayer and digital director for BBC News, where she developed the BBC News presence on third-party platforms such as Apple News and Jio in India. She began her media career in production as a researcher on The Money Programme and subsequently spent eight

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