Lee Durant

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Lee Durant
BBC Cameraman

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  • Really good @robsym nicely done mate https://t.co/dwCvPYC9bn 18 hours ago
  • @JonIronmonger Nice one mate 4 days ago
  • I agree @UKCameraOp, this is appauling and misleading to use that picture with that headline https://t.co/szOIJYyalA 13 days ago
  • RT @Imeldaflattery: Well deserved after months of hard work. https://t.co/bzzmkSTBTr 14 days ago
  • @bbclysedoucet Amazing 🎉 21 days ago
  • @timcantweet @asda Oh dear lol 😫 22 days ago
  • @dazcaseyphot Your so in the dark ages 24 days ago
  • Today... the toys are out for a play 😉👍🏻 #Canon #C300mkii #5Dmkiv #ZhiyunCrane https://t.co/SpMfJLwhkz 24 days ago
  • Brilliant https://t.co/Ptz4d7J7NZ 25 days ago
  • Another top BBC shoot/edit @jemmacox nominated for @theaibstv AIB media awards for filming at Chernobyl https://t.co/idWIaSnJWx 36 days ago
  • @jemmacox @theaibstv Amazing mate, congratulations and so very well deserved. Great stuff 😉🎉 36 days ago
  • Excellent interview by @BBCSteveR and team, love this digital edit @mattgodtv https://t.co/QrqCXW2Oxr 38 days ago

Videos

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Amiens Centenary

I had the privilege of being part of the Newsgathering team who travelled to the beautiful city of Amiens to cover the centenary commemorations of…

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Tales of Tainted Blood

It’s a very privileged part of our job as journalists that we get to meet some wonderful people who often seem very ordinary but they…

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The Sunday Politics Moodbox

The BBC’s Sunday Politics show is about to finish for good… This thursday I had the privilege of filming the final ever moodbox for a…

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Pippa’s Wedding

Yesterday was the day the Duchess of Cambridge’s sister Pippa Middleton tied the knot with James Matthews in Englefield and the Royal attended event had…

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Zeebrugge Disaster 30 years on

The Cross channel ferry Herald of Free Enterprise capsized minutes after leaving the Belgian port of Zeebrugge on the 6th March 1987. The tragic events…

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From the Dockyard to the Scrapyard

Last Wednesday I was tasked by BBC News to cover the final departure of the Royal Navy Aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious from her home port…

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VT for the Victoria Derbyshire Show

I had a part in filming a VT for yesterday’s Victoria Derbyshire Show where they were highlighting the alarming instances of very nasty side effects…

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Battle of Hastings 950th Year

Yesterday I was sent down by BBC News to the lovely town of Battle to cover a reenactment of the Battle of Hastings, commemorating the…

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Kamal Ahmad at the launch of the new Five Pound Note

BBC’s Business Correspondent Kamal Ahmad reports from Blenheim Palace on the introduction of the new five pound note. This short VT was shot and edited…

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Strange happenings in Kidlington

The BBC’s Robert Hall reports on the strange visitings of busloads of tourists to the quiet Oxfordshire Village of Kidlington. This story was initially reported…

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Western Riding with Mike Bushell

Another short VT from my Archive is this fun shoot with Mike Bushell from BBC Breakfast. Shot in an afternoon with Western Riding Trainer Bob…

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Nato Exercise Estonia with Jonathan Beale

The BBC’s Defense Correspondent Jonathan Beale reports from Estonia about Nato Exercises on the North East flank of the alliance’s borders with Russia. This report was shot by me with Jonathan in June and we edited using FCPX back in the UK for it to go out ahead of the Nato Summit in Warsaw in July 2016.

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Race of Champions with Mike Bushell

Race Of Champions Preview shoot for BBC Breakfast with Mike Bushell. The two of us went down to the 2012 Olympic Stadium in London to see the place had been transformed from running track into a 70mph road racing track.

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Behind the Scenes with the Victoria Derbyshire Show

This is a short behind the scenes video filmed as Victoria Derbyshire presented her whole show from the Junior Doctor’s picket line outside St Thomas’…

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Radisson Blu Hotel Attack in Mali

This Report I shot and edited in Bamako, Mali last November after gunmen attacked western tourists and local workers in the city’s Radisson Blu Hotel… I…

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Filming for Newsnight

Earlier this year I was tasked to meet a team from Newsnight in Calais to cover the possible clearing of the Migrant Camp called the…

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Iran Talks, Vienna 2015

Last year I had the pleasure of working with the BBC team covering the Iran Nuclear Talks in the wonderful city of Vienna. I was…

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General Election Campaign Stop

Another Video from Last year is this one from Covering the General Election as a member of a BBC Leader Team following the Tories on…

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3-a-Side Tennis

Because I’m only now populating a blog again after a few years solely relying on twitter to be my online CV/Diary I intend to be publishing…

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Davos Today

I have just returned from nine days in Switzerland working for Thomson Reuters on their Davos Today TV program. The show this year was on…

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