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Jonathan Levi is a successful television executive and BAFTA-nominated documentary film maker.
Attracted to the extremes in society, he was the first person to gain full access to the patients and staff at Broadmoor high-security hospital for a highly acclaimed primetime ITV series which offered startling insights into the minds of some of Britain’s most notorious mental health patients.
When TV star and recording artist Tulisa was entrapped by the Sun on Sunday she turned to Jonathan to author and tell her story for BBC1 in the ratings hit Tulisa: The Price of Fame.
Jonathan has made programmes with Andrew Lloyd Webber about his art collection and his musicals, and has hosted fundraisers with The Old Vic.
He is Factual Producer on the ITV four-part drama Hatton Garden.
Books
Inside Broadmoor: Up close and personal with Britain’s most dangerous criminals
Jonathan Levi and Emma French
A gripping account of life inside Britain’s highest security hospital, this is the full story of Broadmoor – past, present and future – as told by a selection of staff and patients themselves.
Since opening as an asylum for the criminally insane in 1863, it has housed the perpetrators of many of the most shocking and appalling crimes in history.
The truth about what goes on behind the Victorian walls of the high-security hospital has largely remained a mystery, but now with unprecedented access, Executive Producer Jonathan Levi and cultural historian Emma French paint a picture of life in Broadmoor, after spending nearly a decade observing and speaking to those on the inside. Based on their experiences as well as interviews with the staff that work there – including nurses, psychiatrists, therapists, security guards – and the patients themselves, Inside Broadmoor is the most comprehensive study of the institution to-date.
Inside Broadmoor: Up close and personal with Britain’s most dangerous criminals is published by Bonnier Books UK.
Hatton Garden: The Inside Story
Jonathan Levi
Hatton Garden… straight from the horse’s mouth.
For this team of old-school career criminals, the Hatton Garden heist was supposed to be one last job, the fortune that would sort their retirement for good. The plan was to smash in and grab tens of millions of pounds from beneath the world-famous gold-and-jewellery district, and get away to live in luxury.
But somewhere it all went wrong.
Now, for the first time ever, we hear what happened from the gang behind bars.
Based on exclusive interviews and featuring shocking revelations from their associates, this explosive and gripping read includes fresh information on the whereabouts of the mysterious robber ‘Basil’, and evidence from unheard sources.
This is the full story of one of the most audacious crimes in British history.
