Martin Bashir

Bashir has conducted a number of high profile investigations, including one into the financial activities of England soccer coach Terry Venable. After the broadcast, Venables admitted to the charges leveled against him and was banned from being a company director.

Bashir also raised serious questions about the British government's sale of the English coal regions to businessman Richard Budge, focusing on Budge's financial probity. His work on allegations of so-called Satanic abuse in Scotland provoked a government inquiry, as did his documentary about safety concerns at the U.K. Atomic Weapons Establishment in Aldermaston.

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In 2002, Bashir reported and produced a special documentary featuring Jodie and Mary Attard, the parents of conjoined twins. The documentary included a follow-up interview with Jodie as she recovered and returned to Malta. This world broadcasted documentary also included interviews with the medical team that performed the complex surgery and featured the ethical dilemma of allowing one twin to die so that the other could live.

Also in 2002, Bashir accompanied British backpacker Joanne Lees on her return to Australia for an ITV documentary, which focused on the abduction and disappearance of Peter Falconia, Lees' boyfriend. Australian authorities charged the prime suspect with Falconia's murder and he was found guilty in November 2006.

In June 2001, Bashir presented a special three-part ITV documentary series on the subject of xeno-transplantation entitled "The Organ Farm." The series revealed how generations of genetically modified pigs were bred in secrecy and how experiments continued to test the possibility of transplanting animal organs into human bodies. The series won two awards at the New York Film and Television Festival.

After the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Bashir reported and presented an ITV special entitled "A Day in September." The film was nominated for a Royal Television Society Award and granted special commendation by the Independent Television Commission.