Jenny grew up in apartheid South Africa, and has always been drawn to issues of social and political justice and human rights. She has made films in Algeria, Colombia, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, South Africa, the UK, and many other places, and her other films for television include:


Three Thin Ladies, about women who lived with anorexia and bulimia in the 1940s and 50s, before eating disorders were widely recognised; for Channel 4 (this film won the Mental Health Media award for best documentary)


South Africa 2000, a series of four films for BBC Schools about the 'new' South Africa (nominated by the BBC for a Royal Television Society award)


Crossing the Lines, following representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Colombia; the opening programme in a major BBC2 series  ('Crossing the Lines' was shortlisted for a One World Media documentary award)


After Jenin, about the immediate aftermath of the Israeli army's re-invasion of West Bank cities in 2002 (won best documentary at the Cairo Film and Television Festival).


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David Somerset Education curator,

Adult Community -

BFI Southbank



Jenny Morgan, Chair

Part 1:

INTRODUCTION

(3 minutes)

Violette Szabó and the Special Operations Executive

Recorded and used here courtesy of the British Film Institute. For personal listening only. NOT for re-use in any media.

Jenny Morgan is a film-maker, editor, and journalist who has been making documentary films for British television, and independently, since the late 1970s. She wrote, produced, and directed the acclaimed Channel 4 documentary Behind Enemy Lines: the Real Charlotte Grays, about the SOE’s female agents in Nazi occupied France. Four, of the then surviving eight, F Section women took part in filmed interviews and two were movingly reunited with wartime comrades.