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Ten Alps Plc is a UK-based media company, founded in 1999 by Alex Connock

Alex Connock

Alex Connock TV/digital entrepreneur & academic. Founded TV/digital company in 2011. Visiting Fellow Oxford University's Reuters Institute. Previously co-founded with Bob Geldof TV/digital content company Ten Alps 1999-2011....

and Bob Geldof

Bob Geldof

Robert Frederick Zenon "Bob" Geldof, KBE is an Irish singer, songwriter, author, occasional actor and political activist. He rose to prominence as the lead singer of the Irish rock band The Boomtown Rats in the late 1970s and early 1980s alongside the punk rock movement. The band had hits with his...

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The plc is now run by Peter Bertram (Chairman) and Nitil Patel (finance director). It has two operating businesses.

Ten Alps' TV and education content business includes TV production companies Brook Lapping

Brook Lapping

Brook Lapping Productions is a British TV and radio production company. Based in London, Brook Lapping is a subsidiary of Ten Alps.The company is the result of a 1997 merger of Brook Associates , and Brian Lapping Associates....

, Films of Record, Below the Radar and Blakeway, which make documentary output for BBC, Channel 4 and other broadcasters, plus education and safety content production company DBDA. Ten Alps Asia opened in August 2009 in Singapore, producing TV programmes. Output also includes education TV site Schoolsworld, which hosts 3500 videos from the former government Teachers TV

Teachers TV

Teachers TV was a website and former free-to-air Distance education television channel which provided video and support materials for those who work in education in the UK, including teachers, school leaders, governors, teacher trainers, student teachers and support staff.Its aims included raising...

project. Programme clips are hosted on the company's YouTube site.

Ten Alps' Communications unit provides communications, media sales and a substantial range of business publishing, online and in print, in the UK and Asia. Businesses include Ten Alps Media, Ten Alps Publishing, Grove House Publishing, design and web design business Ten Alps Creative.

History

Ten Alps was founded in 1999 by Alex Connock

Alex Connock

and Bob Geldof

Bob Geldof

. For £1 they bought Planet 24 Radio, a subsidiary of Geldof’s previous TV production company Planet 24

Planet 24

Planet 24 was a television production company. It produced The Big Breakfast and The Word had an animation division Impossible TV. Bob Geldof and Tony Boland founded Planet Pictures which merged with 24 Hour Productions headed by Charlie Parsons and Waheed, later Lord Alli...

, producer of The Big Breakfast
The Big Breakfast
The Big Breakfast was a British light entertainment television show shown on Channel 4 and S4C each weekday morning from 28 September 1992 until 29 March 2002 during which period 2,482 shows were produced. The Big Breakfast was produced by Planet 24, the production company co-owned by former...

and The Word
The Word (TV series)
The Word was a 1990s Channel 4 television programme in the United Kingdom.-Format:Its presenters included Mancunian radio presenter Terry Christian, comedian Mark Lamarr, Dani Behr, Katie Puckrik, Jasmine Dotiwala, Alan Connor, Amanda de Cadenet and "Huffty"...

, when Planet 24 TV was sold to ITV subsidiary Carlton TV

Carlton Television

Carlton Television was the ITV franchise holder for London and the surrounding counties including the cities of Solihull and Coventry of the West Midlands, south Suffolk, middle and east Hampshire, Oxfordshire, south Bedfordshire, south Northamptonshire, parts of Herefordshire & Worcestershire,...

. The name Ten Alps derives from Planet, spelt backwards. The first production was award-winning current affairs radio programme Sunday Service for BBC Radio 5 Live. Ten Alps listed on AiM in 2001.

Group companies

Key programmes

Iran and the West
Iran and the West
Iran and the West is the name of a three part British documentary series shown in February 2009 on BBC Two to mark the 30th anniversary of the 1979 Iranian Revolution. The first episode was shown at 9:00pm on Saturday 7 February with parts two and three shown on consecutive Saturdays...
Death of Yugoslavia
The Gangster and the Pervert Peer
Congo’s Forgotten Children
Unseen Gaza
Too Old to Work
Planning Wars
Extreme Slimmers
Teen Mum High
Crash Gordon
Dog that Saved our Marriage
The Creat Crash
UR SO V4IN
Murder mansion
Get Your act Together
Madoff
China’s Capitalist Revolution
Top Dog
Kidnapped To Order
Tony Blair
Last Flight to Kuwait
The Trouble with British Airways
Visionaries
Rivers of Blood
The One That Got Away
Heat or Eat: The Pensioner’s dilemma
Summits
Jon Snow’s hidden Iraq
Going Postal, Fighting Passions
A Mother Like Alex
Dispatches: From Jail to jihad
The Human Cost of the Credit Crunch
Hitler’s British Girl
Supergrass, On a Knife Edge
Miss Landmine
Revenge of the Bin Men
May Contain Nuts
Tabloids Dirty Secrets
King Edward VII
A Tale of Two Britains
Renaissance Revolution
Tabloids Tories and Telephone Hacking
Abused: Breaking the Silence
Conservation's Dirty Secrets
The Hidden Price of Gold

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