Nicola Cutcher (UK) is an investigative journalist working in broadcast and print media.

Nichola Cutcher has worked as a researcher and assistant producer at the BBC, contributing to *Panorama*, *Newsnight*, *This World*, and various special documentaries for BBC2 and BBC3.

Nichola co-produced *Syria’s Disappeared: The Case Against Assad* with director Sara Afshar for Afshar Films. The film was broadcast on Channel 4 in 2017, nominated for a BAFTA, and won Investigation of the Year at the British Journalism Awards.  

As a freelance writer, Nichola Cuthcer has written for *The Guardian*, *The Times*, *The Independent*, and *The Telegraph*, as well as for several magazines, including *Prospect*, *New Humanist*, *New Statesman*, *The Idler*, *Resurgence & Ecologist*, and *Countryfile*.

She co-produced *Rivercide*, a live investigative documentary streamed in 2021, presented by George Monbiot and directed by Franny Armstrong, which explored the shockingly polluted state of Britain's rivers and potential solutions for cleaning them up.  

She co-founded the Not Morning Sickness campaign with fellow campaigner Charlotte Howden, advocating for the term ‘pregnancy sickness’ to replace ‘morning sickness’.  

She also undertakes bespoke research commissions for dramatists working in theatre and television.  

She was a founding member of Dumbshow Theatre.  

She is a trustee of Friends of the River Wye. 

Nicola Cutcher

Basic information

Name
Nicola Cutcher
Title
investigative journalist & filmmaker
Country
United Kingdom
City
Herefordshire

Supported projects

The Dark Trace in the Water of Cheap Meat Business

  • Climate
  • Environment

ARAGÓN / HEREFORDSHIRE / LOWER SAXONY — These regions have become areas with a very high density of intensive farms. An international investigation reveals the dynamics behind the expansion and the pollution of rivers, aquifers and even tap water that it brought along. 

The Special Branch Files Project

  • Politics

LONDON - The Special Branch Files Project is a live archive of declassified files focusing on the surveillance of political activists and campaigners.