Stacy Marking, who has died aged 83, was one of the first female directors working in television documentary films, with her focus predominantly on race, poverty and injustice.
She started out with Rediffusion in the early 1960s as a researcher on the current affairs series This Week, and went on to direct an episode of the BBC series Scrutiny, presented by Derek Hart, which examined social issues in Britain. For Housing – After the Rent Act (1967), which showed how landlords exploit loopholes in the law, Marking caught threats of violence against her interviewer, the journalist David McKie, on camera.
