Adam has 25 years TV experience directing and producing high-profile factual documentaries for the BBC, for UK terrestrials and for international broadcasters and platforms. Adam makes films with tricky content ideas and in hard-to-negotiate environments. For his 2021 film 9/11: Inside the President’s War Room, he secured the only television interview with George W. Bush for the twentieth anniversary of the attacks. The documentary won or was nominated for a collection of awards, including: BAFTA, RTS, Rose D’Or, Broadcast Magazine, British Press and Real Screen. He was awarded the Best Factual Director from the Royal Television Society. It was watched by 6.5 million people in the UK and many more on Apple TV+.
Previously, Adam made films across a range of subject areas – medicine, science, global affairs, terrorism, true crime and constructed reality – and has won various awards and accolades, including: an RTS for Back to the Floor: A Class Apart (BBC Two) and the British Documentary / Grierson award for Monkeys, Rats and Me: Animal Testing (BBC Two), and nominations for The Price of Life (BBC Two) and 23 Week Babies (BBC Two).
In addition, he has also published two books. One In Three: A Son’s Journey into the History and Science of Cancer was runner-up for the Royal Society Book Award.