Trawl is a production partnership that specialises in shining a light on human stories of social and legal injustice.
To make these voices heard, we create a range of media, including long-form podcasts, where we dig down and investigate subjects in a forensic way.
With decades of experience between Duncan and Samantha, contacts in numerous areas but focusing on the criminal justice system, Trawl creates accessible, heartfelt and thought provoking stories.
We bring under reported stories of injustice, courage, and in some cases triumph, to life.
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Duncan Bulling
Producer/Director
Duncan Bulling is a multi-award-winning documentary maker, who specialises in taking an investigative, forensic yet human approach to a diverse range of subjects.
Over the last 20 plus years, he has directed high end factual programming for Channel 4, National Geographic, PBS, BBC, History, Five and Discovery. He has also produced audio content for LBC, BBC World Service and IRN.
He has solved enduring mysteries of World War 2. In 9/11: The Final Minutes of Flight 93 he shed new light on the 9/11 attacks. In Expedition New Earth he examined the future of our species with Stephen Hawking. In Inside Holloway he used the history of Holloway Prison to explore our changing attitudes to female prisoners and criminality.
Samantha Asumadu
Journalist/Producer
Samantha Asumadu is an investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker.
She has written for the Guardian, the Telegraph, Open Democracy, New Statesman and been interviewed on Radio 4 Womans hour, LBC, BBC World and other BBC programmes.
She founded Media Diversified, (2013-2022) with a mission to challenge the homogeneity of voices in UK news media, through addressing the under-representation of marginalised communities. In 2015 she co-founded the Bare Lit Festival of writing.
She was based in East Africa from 2007, where she reported on Acid Attacks, Blood Minerals in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Kampala terrorist bombings of 2010 for news outlets including CNN, Deutsche Welle, France 24 and Agence France Presse.
She directed and co-produced her first film for Aljazeera English in 2009. The Super Ladies is about three Ugandan women rally drivers and a race with a dramatic outcome.
In 2022 she was a finalist for Private Eye's Paul Foot Investigative and Campaigning Journalism Award and the Society of Editors, National Investigation of the Year, Media Freedom Award.
She just wrapped up reporting for the documentary podcast series, Trapped: The IPP Prisoner Scandal. The sixteen episode series was a finalist in the 2024 Sandford St Martin Awards.
