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About
Childsplay Media Ltd is a new production company, established in January 2026 by Roger and Alice Childs. It aims to build on experience Roger has accumulated over more than three decades, producing, executive producing and commissioning multi award-winning content, across a broad range of genres and all media, for RTÉ, BBC, ARTE, ABC, SBS, Channel 4 and PBS.
From head-turning documentaries on TV and Radio (Is The Pope a Catholic?, The Hand of God, Why People Hate…, John McCarthy’s Bible Journey, Greater Than the Greatest, Every Parent’s Nightmare, One Million Dubliners, Pope Francis – The Sinner, A Parting Gift, Countdown to Calvary, Guns ‘n’ Rosaries, Ireland’s Dirty Laundry, Baz – The Lost Muslim, An Irish Solution, Walking the Walk, Blindboy’s Land of Saints & Sinners, Born That Way, The Hills Are Alive, Iron Ladies, etc) to Entertainment shows (Rock Steady, World Festival of Families with Pope Francis, Christmas in Kilmainham, etc); from lifestyle shows (Donal’s Feasts, Fasts & Festivals, All Walks of Life, A Ring and a Prayer) to drama (Florence Nightingale, It’s A Girl, The Secret Peacemaker); from history (With God on Our Side, The Last Irish Missionaries) to investigations (The Legion, Bishop Casey’s Buried Secrets), Roger has worked creatively and collaboratively with a dizzying array of partners, funders, producers, presenters, directors and contributors, to deliver multi award-winning content that has attracted big audiences and positive press and public reaction in a variety of peak-time slots.
Now, the creative adventure continues with Childsplay Media.
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About Roger
Roger was born in Kent, in the UK, to an Irish mother and an English dad. Educated at Trinity School, Croydon, and Trinity College, Cambridge, he started his career in telly as a runner, then researcher, on various Channel 4 shows, before landing a place on the BBC’s prestigious TV Producer Training Scheme. Over the next 16 years, he produced and/or exec'd content across a broad range of genres, from documentaries to drama, from magazine shows to News & Current Affairs, for every BBC TV & Radio network and the World Service.
In 2007, he was appointed Commissioning Editor of Religion & Society at Ireland's national broadcaster, RTÉ, where, over the next 18 years, he commissioned and exec'd an equally broad selection of multi award-winning TV and Radio content, from live entertainment & event coverage to documentaries, from celebrity interviews to investigative journalism.
He ghost-wrote two bestselling books for Gay Byrne, based on their series The Meaning of Life (Gill).
Now, Roger is seeking new creative challenges, writing and producing scripted and unscripted content across all media and genres.
About Alice
Alice Childs was born in Belfast and educated at the Assumption Grammar School, Ballynahinch, and Dominican College, Fort William. Following an internship with The Irish News, she studied photography and film at Napier College, Edinburgh, before joining BBC Northern Ireland as one of its first female camera operators. She then moved to editing before switching to production, as a single & multi-camera director and TV & Radio Producer in BBC Religion & Ethics, Manchester.
A change of career then took her into third level education, teaching journalism and media production at Trinity & All Saints College, Leeds, where she became Associate Principal Lecturer.
On moving to Dublin, she attained a Masters in Online & Distance Learning from the Open University, which led to her current role as Learning Technologist Manager at Griffith College Dublin.
