Robert Eagle (writer/director)

Robert Eagle (born April 30 1948) is a British writer, producer and director of documentary and drama for film and television. His documentary Guru Busters, AbOUT the campaign to eradicate superstition, religious fraud and quackery in India, provoked controversy with its vivid, occasionally disturbing, depiction of the work of leading Indian rationalist campaigners such as Prabir Ghosh, Sanal Edamaruku and Basava Premanand. Followers of the guru Satya Sai Baba attempted, unsuccessfully, to PReVENT the documentary being broadcast in South Africa and Australia, complaining about the film's use of previously suppressed video material that allegedly showed the guru using legerdemain trickery. Eagle continued to investigate supposedly supernatural phenonema as series producer of Supernatural Science for the BBC. His book Alternative Medicine - a guide to the medical underground won the Medical Journalists Association's special award in 1980. He went to write and present two series of programmes on alternative and traditional medicine for BBC Radio 4. He was series editor of the Channel 4 television health series Well Being.

Filmography

Guru Busters (Channel 4 UK documentary); Supernatural Science (BBC Worldwide documentary series); The Nuclear Boy Scout (Channel 4 UK documentary); The Solomon Treasures (National Geographic, Arte, History Channel documentary) also titled in USA as Decoding Bible Relics and in France as Les Trésors Perdus de Salomon; The Dancer's Body (BBC documentary series); Big Questions (Channel 4 UK educational series); Grandpa Chatterji (Channel 4 UK drama); Conjoined Twins (BBC Horizon documentary); Robo Sapiens (Discovery International documentary); Space the Final Junkyard (Channel 4/TLC documentary); Sun Storm (Channel 4/TLC documentary); I shouldn't be alive - Science of Survival (Discovery USA); Piece of Cake (TV series) [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1010180/. IMdB summary]''

Bibliography

Guide to Alternative Medicine, BBC Books; How they made Piece of Cake, Boxtree; Herbs - Useful Plants, BBC Books; Eating and Allergy, Doubleday (USA), Thorsons, Futura (UK); Alternative Medicine - a guide to the medical underground, Futura; Taking the Strain, BBC Books; Today's Health Service, Channel 4; Well Being, Penguin