My friend Bernard Adams, who has died aged 86, produced more than 20 serialised television documentaries for the BBC from the 1960s to the 1990s, mainly for schools and continuing education programmes. These included Better Badminton (1979), a look at a sport in which he had excelled as a national junior champion, and Berliners (1990), on the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Following retirement from the BBC he went on to write five books and two plays including Fierce Love (2022), a biography of Mary O’ Malley, the founder-director of the Lyric Players theatre, Belfast, and The Fall (2013), a play commemorating the 150th anniversary of his local church, Christ Church, East Sheen, in south-west London.
