About Us
Your Big Day offers videos tailored to a specific date in history, drawing on the extensive film and television archives of ITN and Reuters.
Devised and narrated by former BBC and ITV newscaster, Martyn Lewis, and created by award winning producer, Charles Thompson, Your Big Day uses the latest technology to deliver direct to your mobile, tablet or desktop crafted, ‘time capsule’ videos covering the days, months and years of the past 100 years.
Sir Martyn Lewis CBE
One of Britain’s best known and most loved television reporters and newscasters with over 30 years in television journalism, Martyn is back to bring us the news and events that happened on Your Big Day through time. Millions of Britons remember Martyn as the newsreader who brought us some of the great historical news landmarks of our age, from the Falklands war and the fall of the Berlin wall to the death of Princess Diana. Martyn anchored every mainstream news programme on both ITV and BBC, including News At Ten and the Six O’Clock News, as well as the primetime police series Crimebeat, on BBC One, and the news quiz Today’s The Day, on BBC Two. Since leaving prime time broadcasting for a career in business, Martyn has become a champion for Britain’s charities, for which he was awarded a knighthood in the 2016 Queen’s New year Honours list.
Charles Thompson
An award-winning producer who has created a wealth of hit television shows for the world's major TV networks. These include many top rated popular series, including Traffic Cops and Car Wars for BBC One, Send in the Dogs and Commando for ITV1, UK Border Force for Sky 1, P-Company and Cars, Caravans & Chaos for Channel 4, Paradise Hotel for Fox Network in America and the BAFTA CYMRU winning drama, Shirley, for BBC Two.
Charles has been responsible for creating and writing the almost 500 videos that make up the Your Big Day library.
