To date Al has scored the music for over 200 film and television productions. From wildlife to science fiction, history to contemporary drama, these include some of the most ground breaking shows to air in the UK: "Beyond Boundaries", "The Day Of The Kamikaze " , the multi award winning "Anatomy for Beginners", and the winner of the 2007 Hugh Weldon Award at the Baftas - "Nuremburg - Goerings's Last Stand" are recent examples. His music for the "The Fifth Province" has been described by film critic Nicky Fennell as "..possibly the best score I have ever heard in an Irish feature film." He has collaborated with artists as diverse as Sugababes, St Etienne and Jacqui Dankworth. His music featured at the Tate Gallery as an exhibition soundtrack to the film of 2004 Turner Prize nominees Langlands And Bell.
Selected Credits:
" Around The World In Eighty Days" - 6 x 60 for BBC1 produced in-house by BBC Bristol TX Tuesdays 9pm October/November 2009 - series Prod. Kez Margrie.
"The Natural World" - "Andrea Queen Of Mantas" 1x 60 BBC2 & Animal Planet USA. A beautiful film about Giant Manta Rays. Big Wave Prods. Prod. Sarah Cunliffe, Dir. Mark Woodward. TX BBC2 Wednesday 8pm Nov 11 2009.
"Azorian: The Raising Of The K129" ...120 min feature documentary - Michael White Films Vienna. Spectacular Cold War CIA and Howard Hughes secret mission to recover a Russian nuclear submarine from a depth of 3 miles in the Pacific Ocean. TX TBC 2009.
"Is Tana's Sugar Really Sweet?" A campaigning film by Dr Adrian Seymour, describing the threat facing the beautiful Kenyan wetlands of the Tana River Delta, and its inhabitants. 2009.
"Beyond Boundaries - Where Are They Now?" Diverse Prods. New series BBC2 2x60 TX starts 11pm Sunday March 22 2009
"Hero Animals" new 6 part drama doc series for CH 5, Animal Planet and BBC WorldWide. Big Wave Prods. TX - series starts 7.30pm 4 March 2009
Wilderness Explored 3 x 60 - Arctic, Congo, and "Red Heart"- Australia BBC NHU BBC4. TX October 2008 BBC2 TX TBC 2009
Pacific Abyss Three part series (3x60) BBC1 Series Producer Dale Templar - for the BBC Natural History Unit TX August/September 2008
Across The Andes - Beyond Boundaries .. 4x60 . series three of acclaimed BBC2 adventure show. TX starts May/June 2008
Mission Everest DiverseTV for CH 4 and Discovery USA feature length documentary TX CH 4 Easter Monday March 24 9pm 2008
Survi vi ng Suicide BBC inhouse production for BBC 1 Sport Relief Special Tx 5 March 2008
The Day Of The Kamikaze Darlow Smithson for CH4 90 mins - epic drama-documentary directed by Peter Nicholson TX 18 Feb 2008
Paradise Or Bust BBC2 series follows eco warriors of Tribewanted.com on the island of Vorovoro,Fiji - Mondays, Jan /Feb 2008 9pm
Autopsy: Emergency Room Ch4 Firefly Series TX Nov. 2007
Comic Relief 2007 BBC1
Last Flight To Kuwait - The Secret Of BA Flight 149 BBC2 , Discovery, ZDF Blakeway Films dir..Peter Nicholson TX April 2007
Mission Africa BBC 1 15 part adventure series Diverse TX Jan-April 2007
Nuremburg - Goering's Last Stand CH4 3BM 90 mins Cast - Hans Helleman, Des McAleer Winner Hugh Weldon Award, Bafta 2007
Beyond Boundaries BBC1 & BBC2 Diverse Series 1,and 2 of adventure show
Autopsy – Life and Death CH4 Firefly
The Real Jackal Sky One Redback Films
Anatomy For Beginners Ch 4 Firefly Winner of two RTS Awards
The Fifth Province Cast - Ian Richardson, Lia Williams, Anthony Higgins Winner, Best Script, Oporto Film Festival
A World in Arms Ch4 3BM Napoleonic Wars x3 films, Cast - Joss Ackland, John Sessions
Wilderness Men BBC2 Cast includes Christopher Eccleston
Capital Lives ITV Warner Sisters Cast includes John Hannah
Tomorrow Calling Ch4 Cast includes Colin Salmon
Funky Black Shorts BBC2 Cast includes - Bill Patterson Winner, Asian Oscar
Late at the Office Sky Cast includes - Lindsay Duncan
Little Angels, Little Devils Ch4 Wall To Wall
Cutting Edge, “Seconds to Impact” Ch4 Diverse Winner, Adventure Category, Graz Film Festival, Banff Festival Finalist.
Land of Lost Monsters BBC & Animal Planet USA
Natural World BBC2
Wildlife on One BBC1
Extreme Lives BBC1 ” The Road to Certain Death" Winner Prix Documentaire, Festival du Speliologie. Auvergne, Banff Mountain Film Festival Finalist 2002
Kings of the Jungle ITV1
Sharks the Truth BBC1 Winner Prix Documentaire, Antibes Film Festival 1999
Shark Encounters BBC1
Shark! Beyond the Jaws Granada for Animal Planet USA) Official Selection Missoula Festival USA, Official selection Antibes Festival 2003
Heavenly Creatures BBC for Animal Planet USA Christmas Special
Animal People BBC1 “Mountain Lion: Backyard Killer?”
The Full Wax BBC1
Horizon “Chimp Talk” BBC2
True Stories “Lucky Lucan” BBC1
Facing Jaws RDF for National Geographic Official Selection Antibes UnderSea Film Festival 2003
Dispatches “The Oregon Formula” Ch4 Diverse
Storm Force Ch4/ Discovery Series 1 & 2 Pioneer
Claws, Jaws and Dinosaurs Ch4 Wall to Wall
Soap Fiction Ch4Blast!
BodyShock – Rogue Gynaecologists Ch4 Firefly 2006
Living with Dinosaurs BBC1 Sir David Attenborough Special 2003
Ancient Lives 10 films BBC for Discovery
Science of Seduction BBC for TLC
What If? BBC4
Ever Wondered? BBC2
Rhyme and Reason Ch4
How Do They Do That? ITV Grundy
The Turner Prize 2004 Ch4 Illuminations
The Hunt For Hitler’s Scientists CH5 Windfall Films 2005
The Real ER Ch 4 Blast!
When Sharks Attack Sky One NHNZ 2005
Forever Sky 195 sci-fi drama – Ignition Films 2005