What's your favourite documentary of the past year? And your favourite of all time?
A panel of TV types - and one reviewer - were asked these very questions at the Question Time session at this weekend's Doc/Fest in Sheffield. Do you agree with their choices?
What's your favourite documentary of the past year?
James Walton, Daily Telegraph TV critic: Folk Britannia (BBC4) 'Really well written - authoritative but irreverent.'
Peter Salmon, BBC Vision chief creative officer: Stephen Fry - The Secret Life Of The Manic Depressive (BBC2) 'Revealing and entertaining.'
Richard Wolfe, Sky One director of programmes: Panorama's football bungs investigation (BBC1) 'Good to see Panorama getting a huge audience and the whole nation talking about it.'
Roger Graef, Films of Record chief executive: Send Me Somewhere Special (BBC3) 'A Grierson best newcomer winner. A gem - unusual and fresh.'
Angus Macqueen, Channel 4 head of documentaries: Sisters In Law (More4)
What's your all time favourite documentary?
JW: The World At War (ITV) 'Terrific - I saw it again recently and it still stands up.'
PS: Michael Moore's Roger and Me
RW: Desmond Wilcox's The Boy David (BBC)
RG: Hello Do You Hear Me? (ITV/Channel 4) 'Yuri Podneik's film about glasnost in Latvia - not only brilliant, it will now be available to view on the internet.'
AM: Pawel Pawlikowski's From Moscow To Pietushki (BBC)
The Panel were also asked for their worst factual programme of the past year - but only James Walton ventured an answer: Channel Five's Alive, where a bunch of minor celebs, including Carole Caplin, were sent to the Andes to 'recreate' the incident where a group of air crash survivors were forced to eat their dead friends to survive.
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