[1] Before establishing himself as an independent producer, Blakeway wrote and directed a number of documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4, including Primo Levi: The Memory of the Offence,[2] The Falklands War;[3] and Thatcher - The Downing Street Years.
[4] He has also been responsible for several documentaries about former British prime ministers, all made with their participation: Edward Heath,[5] John Major[6] and Tony Blair[7] Since setting up Blakeway Productions, Blakeway has produced numerous programmes for British radio and television, including many documentaries about the British royal family, the Second World War, several series with historians Christopher Clark, Max Hastings, Niall Ferguson and David Reynolds, and arts programmes with artist and critic Matt Collings.
[citation needed] Blakeway is the author of The Last Dance,[14] an account of the turbulent year of 1936,The Falklands War[15] and Fields of Thunder-Testing Britain's Bomb[16].
Blakeway has also written and presented numerous programmes for BBC Radio 4, including the Peabody award-winning The Unspeakable Atrocity, a documentary about the BBC and the Holocaust, produced by Nigel Acheson, and Remembrance, an archive based documentary about changing attitudes to remembering British war dead.
[17] In May 2013, Blakeway presented The Longest Suicide Note in History, a documentary about the Labour Party's disastrous 1983 general election campaign.