Stuart began his career as a BBC graduate journalist trainee and was an on-and off-screen journalist for BBC News and Granada Television. He went on to become a Producer and then Editor of ITV’s investigative current affairs series World in Action; the series was nominated for a BAFTA in his second year.

Stuart was appointed Head of Factual programmes at Granada and went on to become ITV’s first controller of factual programmes, with responsibility for news, current affairs, documentaries, features, daytime, arts and religion on the channel. Stuart launched the Network First series, which won the RTS award for Best Factual Series and was nominated by BAFTA in the same category. He then became the founding CEO of Granada Sky Broadcasting, and Managing Director of Channels and New Media for Granada Media PLC. Following this he was appointed CEO of ITV Digital and in 2002 he took over as CEO of ITV, where he was responsible to shareholders for Europe’s most successful commercial TV channel.

Stuart was one of the founders of Liberty Bell Productions, where his programme credits include the various “Grumpy” series, 3 Men in a Boat, Willie’s Wonky Chocolate Factory, the Alastair Campbell Diaries, The Book Show and Songbook. He sold Liberty Bell to Avalon and in 2011 started Storyvault Films with a group of friends.

Stuart is also the founder of a website designed to collect individual memories that can be found at www.storyvault.com. He has published five comedy books, Grumpy Old Men, the Official Handbook; Grumpy Old Men, The Secret Diary; Grumpy Old Christmas, Grumpy Old Drivers and Grumpy Old Workers, as well as a book about the Falklands War entitled ‘Secrets of the Conqueror’ published by Faber and Faber. He has also recently written two further novels - The Insect Farm is published by Alma Books in the UK and by Mulholland Books in the United States; The Bridge is also published by Mulholland in America and by Curtis Brown in the UK.

David is one of the UK’s most experienced and well-respected Directors of Production, with a background in factual and entertainment programming, from high budget terrestrial series to cost-effective digital programming. David began his television career at Granada, where he was responsible for the planning of new channel development and the production management of four cable/satellite channels and ITV lifestyle programmes.

David went on to be Head of Production for series such as Loose Women, Carol Vorderman’s Better Homes, and World in Action, This Morning and Better Gardens for ITV. In addition, he was Head of Production for Granada Sky Broadcasting and Shop! – A joint venture with Littlewoods.

David joined Stuart Prebble in 2002 to set up Liberty Bell Productions where he was responsible for all of the financial and production management of programmes and series for all UK terrestrial broadcasters and the financial management of the Company. In 2004, David managed the sale of Liberty Bell Productions to Avalon Management, along with Stuart Prebble. During this period David managed all of the company’s output ; Grumpy Old Men, Grumpy Old Women, Three Men in a Boat, The Alastair Campbell Diaries, Willie’s Wonky Chocolate Factory and The Book Show with Mariella Frostrup. Since Storyvault was set up he has worked as Director of Production on all Storyvault programming in particular Portrait Artist of the Year and Landscape artist of the Year.

Sam began her career 34 years ago, working as an assistant to the legendary UK theatrical agent Julian Belfrage. After 2 years she relocated to the US to work for Triad Artists, where she became the youngest SAG franchised agent at the age of 21, with Special Artists Agency, where she set up their theatrical division.

Sam moved to management & production company, Addis Wechsler for a year before re-locating back to London in 1990, to work for the William Morris Agency. Along with Sue Latimer, Sam built up the theatrical division of WMA, representing of some of the best known British stars of stage and screen.

In 1997 she set up Storm Artists Management, the theatrical division of Storm Model Management, which she headed until 2005 when she left to launch her own business - the Doris Partnership. Doris co-produced “AM I NORMAL” (4 x 60 mins for BBC2) and “WILLIE’S WONKY CHOCOLATE FACTORY” 2 seasons and a Christmas Special, for Channel 4, with Stuart Prebble, Southan Morris and David Buckley. In 2010 the same team went on to form Storyvault Films.

Sam has developed and produced a wide range of arts, features and factual entertainment programmes and series for UK and international distribution. She spearheads the company’s international sales and format business, and is co-executive producer of the award winning, “Portrait Artist of the Year” (6 seasons) and “Landscape Artist of the Year (5 seasons).

Danielle has spent over 20 years creating, directing and producing entertaining, original and popular factual television for the UK’s major broadcasters.She began her career as a current affairs researcher at LWT, where she took on various on screen undercover assignments for The London Programme, including joining a cult and working as a care assistant in a nursing home, earning her two RTS nominations before she was twenty five.

Danielle has over 150 broadcast credits to her name and has had a hand in creating or shaping many successful formats during that time, including Ibiza Uncovered for Sky 1, The Apprentice and The Culture Show for the BBC and Perfect Match for Channel 4.

She joined Storyvault Films in 2012, where she is co- Executive Producer on Portrait Artist of The Year (series 6) and Landscape Artist of The Year (series 5). She is also spearheading Art 50, a unique collaboration between Sky Arts, The Barbican, The Sage and The Baltic who have commissioned 50 artists to make work about British identity, in the wake of Brexit. Her latest project, The Football Club: Artist in Residence won the Best specialist Factual programme award at the Broadcast Awards, 2019.

Southan Morris is one of the most respected and sought-after directors in the UK. His diverse career has seen him spend months on the front line with British and American Marines in Afghanistan, as well as filming in some of the harshest climates around the world. He is well known for his work on Ross Kemp Back on the Front Line, Ross Kemp Extreme World (Chicago Heroin), Drugs Inc for Nat Geo (The Hash Trail), Top Gear and most recently directing Idris Elba: King of Speed for BBC Two (RTS nominated) Idris Elba No Limits for Discovery (RTS nominated) and series directing Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year (Winner Broadcast: Best Factual Series) and Landscape Artist Of The Year.

Southan spent the first nine years of his career at the BBC, directing multi-camera and documentary productions, including Foot in the Door, Ruby Wax meets OJ, Spice Girls and Recommended Daily Allowance. He then left to launch his own production company, Scream Films, where he was Creative Director and where he executive produced all of Scream’s 400 hours of broadcast television. Scream grew rapidly with a varied portfolio including Terror Alert, The Boy with Divine Powers, Tree Man, Loose Lips, I’m Famous & frightened and Dale’s Wedding. In 2004, Scream was voted Most Creative Independent by the Broadcast Commissioners’ survey. The following year the company was bought by Fox Television Studios and Southan went on to run Fox Studios UK for two years. In 2012 Southan joined Stuart Prebble, Samantha Richards and David Buckley to set up Storyvault Films of which he is currently a director.

Throughout his time at Scream and currently at Storyvault, Southan has continued his career as a Director of high-quality programmes. These have included everything from music videos and commercials, to serious documentaries and big budget factual entertainment programmes. Previous Credits include: BBC One specials – Lenny’s Big Atlantic Adventure (Broadcast nominated); Jack Dee Sent to Siberia; Ian Wright Surviving the Kalahari (Broadcast nominated); Ross Kemp Alive in Alaska; ITV’s Men in Tights, in which eight shipyard workers from Newcastle performed with the English National Ballet (Grierson Award); ITV Sound of Music Children (Bafta Nominated), Willie’s Wonky Chocolate Factory for Channel 4, Robson Green’s Wild Swimming, and Feature Documentary; George Michael, A Different Story. The latter achieved a cinematic release in sixteen countries and was the official selection at the Berlin International Film Festival, Tribeca, Copenhagen and Rio de Janeiro film festivals.

Anne started work in the publicity department at Faber and Faber in 1984, where she promoted the work of writers including P D James, Vikram Seth, Wendy Cope and Kazuo Ishiguro. In 1992 she moved to the BBC to work on BBC 1’s arts strand Omnibus where her producing credits included ‘Darker Than Blue: Curtis Mayfield’, ‘Through Many Dangers: A History of Gospel Music’, ‘Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light’ and a BAFTA nominated profile of Jack Rosenthal, ‘Jack The Lad’.

After leaving the BBC in 2004, Anne produced ‘A Brief Period of Rejoicing’, a film poem by Simon Armitage celebrating VE Day and ‘Reader, I Married Him’, a series about the romantic novel for BBC 4. In 2007 she joined Liberty Bell to produce ‘Mariella’s Book Show’ for Sky Arts and went on to series edit the show for a further six years. This included filming at leading literary festivals across the UK including Hay and Cheltenham.

Anne has been at Storyvault since the company was started in 2010. Since 2013 she has secured commissions for BBC 1’s Imagine on Judith Kerr, Colm Toibin and ‘The Merchant of Venice’ with Howard Jacobson, all of which she has executive produced. She also secured a commission for a 75 minute special for BBC 2 on Melvyn Bragg which she produced.

In addition to her TV work, Anne is creative director of ‘Write on Kew’, a major new literary festival at The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.