Starting out as an editor, he later produced and directed many BBC films including "The Burke Special," "The Trouble with Medicine,"[3] and "The Mind Machine."
Martin Freeth was born in Cairo, Egypt, to two British parents who worked in intelligence during the Second World War.
At the BBC Multimedia Centre, Freeth assembled a team of specialists, with skills across technology, production, content creation, writing, design, and audiovisual.
Under his stewardship the team developed experimental interactive productions to test the potential of television in the coming digital age.
Throughout, Martin promoted the role of emerging digital technologies and their importance to the future offering of the BBC.