Megahy, Francis

Francis Megahy, who started out in life as a stand-up comedian, is a lifelong documentary film-maker and divides his time between London and the US. His work has always reflected his interest in social issues, and he wrote and directed more than forty documentaries, mostly for British television channels, winning awards for One Pair of Eyes, a comparison between the life of an Oxford-educated Indian journalist and that of a Indian textile workers in the North of England; Big Fish, Little Fish, a study of corporate mergers and takeovers; and What Shall We Tell the Children, a documentary about