Milne joined Granada Television in 1969 as a researcher on Nice Time, a light entertainment show, produced by John Birt and starring Kenny Everett and Germaine Greer.
[1] She became a freelance producer/director in 1979, making For God's Sake Care for ATV, an investigation into how the Salvation Army spent only 14 per cent of its income on British charitable causes such as helping homeless men,[2] Sex Drugs and the Vicar, an exposé of the journalism of the News of the World for BBC 2's 40 Minutes strand,[3] and Asante Market Women, a film for Granada's Disappearing World series[4] which won the Blue Ribbon Award at the American Film Festival.
In 1985, Milne produced (with Geoffrey Seed) MI5's Official Secrets, based on whistle-blowing testimony from former MI5 officer Cathy Massiter, who revealed how the Security Service was monitoring the activities of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
[9] Between 1993 and 1995, Milne was the Executive Producer of The Big Story, a peak-time, award-winning 25-minute weekly current affairs series, for the ITV Network.
[10] In 1995, she also produced The War Crimes File, which won a Special Commendation for International Current Affairs at the 1995 RTS Journalism Awards.