Congratulations to Derek Wax (Balliol 1980), whose four-part BBC drama, The Sixth Commandment, has won Best Limited Series at both the BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) and RTS (Royal Television Society) awards this year.
The Sixth Commandment tells the story of how the meeting of an inspirational teacher, Peter Farquhar (Timothy Spall), and a charismatic young student, Ben Field (Éanna Hardwicke), set the stage for one of the most complex and confounding criminal cases in recent history.
Derek is a British television producer and the Managing Director of Wild Mercury Productions. Some of his well-known productions include Flesh and Blood, Sex Traffic, Occupation, Humans, The Rig and Troy: Fall of a City. A series he created over a decade ago, The Hour, which is set in 1956 and explores the Suez Crisis and the birth of current affairs broadcasting at the BBC is currently showing on Netflix.