Litvinenko: An exercise in restraint

David Webb explains how edit and sound design helped bring ITV’s Litvinenko to life.

Litvinenko: An exercise in restraint

Writing for Televisual, editor David Webb explains how edit and sound design helped bring ITV’s Litvinenko to life.

Bringing the story of the poisoning of former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko to life was an exercise in restraint. The aim for both the production and post-production teams was to create an historically accurate account of real-life events without over-dramatizing them.

Directed by Jim Field Smith, with sound design by our sister company Machine, the whole series is available to stream now on ITVX.

Read the article here & stream Litvinenko here.