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Noah Payne-Frank

Noah Payne-Frank is a video-producer and an independent filmmaker.

November 2024

  • Anywhere but Washington
    Why America voted for Donald Trump (again) – video

    America has elected Donald Trump for a second time after a convincing victory over Kamala Harris. In the final instalment of Anywhere but Washington, Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone travel to Michigan to watch the final days of the race; as fervent Trump supporters hit the streets, young women mobilise behind Harris, and chaos and despair drive rival election night parties

October 2024

  • Anywhere but Washington
    Elon Musk’s money and the battle for Pennsylvania – video

  • Israel-Gaza: one year on
    My life behind the lens: one year reporting from the war in Gaza – video

September 2024

  • On the ground
    Better Together: Is communal living the answer to modern malaise? – video


    In the rolling hills of central Italy sits Honeydew, an eco-community created as a direct response to the isolation of the Covid pandemic, enabled by modern technology and aiming to address the profound changes the climate crisis looks set to bring. With stated aims to spread the project globally, the Guardian visited Honeydew to see how founder Benjamin Ramm's vision for the future is playing out, and to learn how sustainable such eco living projects really are.

July 2024

  • Carer's allowance crisis
    I'm under attack and fighting back: the scandal trapping carers - video

  • Anywhere but Westminster
    So what does the future look like now? | Anywhere but Westminster - video

June 2024

  • Anywhere but Westminster
    Here's what you find under Labour's 'landslide': doubters, abstainers and independents - video

    In the third episode of a new series of Anywhere but Westminster, John Harris and John Domokos travel around the West Midlands, and find a fascinating political mixture: hesitant Labour voters, a new crop of independents focused on Palestine and local cuts  – and, amid deep social problems, lots of people who think the election hardly matters. Here, it seems, is the reality that all those opinion polls get nowhere near
  • Anywhere but Westminster
    Why are the Tories collapsing? These true-blue towns know the answers - video

    In the latest episode of Anywhere but Westminster, John Harris and John Domokos go to Woking, Guildford and Aldershot. Most of England's south-east used to be loyally Conservative - now, however, people in the "blue wall" are struggling, cuts are biting, and Toryism today is leaving younger voters behind.
  • Anywhere but Westminster
    This Labour city backed Brexit and went Tory: what did it get in return? - video

    In the first video of a new series of Anywhere but Westminster, John Harris and John Domokos revisit Stoke-on-Trent, the once-loyal Labour city that went totally Tory in 2019. Has 'levelling up' money made up for swingeing local cuts? Will Labour win again? And what do people working hard to turn the place around think  about the future? 

November 2023

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    The Guardian documentary
    Ilya: The AI scientist shaping the world

  • The Guardian documentary
    Ilya: the AI scientist shaping the world

April 2023

  • On the ground
    ‘It's a community coming together’: an army of volunteers fight to save their river – video

    Angela Jones has spent her life swimming in the Rivers Wye and Usk. Five years ago she began to notice the impact of pollution and decided to fight back. Now an army of volunteers have come together to gather data and evidence, and bring about change, before it is too late

March 2023

  • On the ground
    Mould, cold and a community hub offering hope in the cost of living crisis – video

    More than 2m households fell into fuel poverty last year, and in one north-east England community many must make a daily choice between heating and eating.

February 2023

  • A year of war in Ukraine
    The year that never ended: how a Ukrainian comedian rebuilt a stranger's house – documentary

  • Vasyl Baidak and Iryna Terekhova, from the documentary The Year that Never Ended, directed by Anton Shtuka

    A year of war in Ukraine
    The year that never ended: how a Ukrainian comedian rebuilt a stranger’s house

November 2022

  • Many people with autoimmune conditions across the UK are facing difficult decisions about funding complementary therapies. In the final episode of the series, Guardian journalist Richard Sprenger, who has multiple sclerosis, looks at how access to wellness therapies is under threat amid an acute cost of living crisis – and meets an NHS consultant in Devon championing a more progressive, integrative approach to holistic healthcare

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    A sceptic's guide to wellness
    What can wellness programmes teach the NHS? A sceptic's guide to wellness – video

  • Richard Sprenger goes down the wellness rabbit hole to find out why the industry has become linked with conspiracy theories. Therapists discuss how mistrust of conventional medicine appears to have grown in the wake of the pandemic, while a familiar face from earlier in the series points to the inevitable end point of such alternative thinking 

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    A sceptic's guide to wellness
    Has wellness become a gateway to conspiracy? A sceptic's guide to the industry – video

  • Despite being labelled problematic, alternative medicines have plenty of anecdotal support. But mainstream acceptance remains out of reach for many wellness treatments. Guardian journalist Richard Sprenger, who has multiple sclerosis, dips his toe into a range of therapies in the hope of figuring out how they work, if they work, and whether they might benefit him

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    A sceptic's guide to wellness
    Real relief or an elaborate placebo? | A sceptic's guide to wellness

  • Guardian journalist Richard Sprenger, who has multiple sclerosis, looks at where modern healthy eating has come from in the second episode of his series, a sceptic's guide to wellness 

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    A sceptic's guide to wellness
    Gut instincts: are wellness diets just a matter of taste? - video

October 2022

  • A sceptic's guide to wellness
    A sceptic’s guide to wellness: autoimmune disease, alternative therapies and me – video

    With autoimmune diseases on the rise around the world, ever greater numbers of people are turning to the booming wellness industry to help manage these incurable conditions outside of conventional science. The Guardian journalist Richard Sprenger, who has multiple sclerosis, goes on a journey into the heart of this industry to see if it can cure his natural scepticism – and perhaps even the condition itself?

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