Martin Durkin

Who is Martin Durkin?

Martin Durkin is a television producer and director, most prominently of television documentaries for Channel 4 in Britain. He is managing director of WAG TV, a London-based independent TV production company. He has produced, directed and executive-produced a wide variety of programmes covering the arts, science, history, entertainment, features and social documentaries. Closely connected with the defunct Revolutionary Communist Party, a number of his documentaries have caused controversies, most notably those critical of environmentalism. He has been described as "the scourge of the greens" and "one of the environmentalists' favourite hate figures".

His style has been characterised as schlocky, but entertaining, and his stock-in-trade as tendentious sensationalism, "with the common-sense of the tabloid knee jerk".