Tommy Nagra

As Director of Content for Children In Need, Tommy Nagra leads the content and storytelling team who share the stories of children and young people supported by BBC Children in Need funding, and works with BBC programmes including The One Show, The Chris Evans Breakfast Show, and Countryfile to raise money to help change young lives throughout the UK. He is based at MediaCity UK in Salford. 

Tommy is an award-winning programme-maker with experience across the BBC and in the independent sector. He is well versed in multi-genre TV production, ranging from specialist factual, documentary and live events through to current affairs, entertainment, lifestyle and features. His previous roles include: Senior Project Director, BBC Radio and Education; Head of Television for BBC Religion & Ethics; Head of Channel Development & Partnerships for BBC Children’s; Head of Business Development, BBC Birmingham; Head of Specialist Factual at Maverick Television; Channel Development Executive for BBC Two; and formerly Head of the Asian Programmes Unit in the 1990’s. 

Since 2017, Tommy has been on the prestigious Clore Leadership Programme and graduated as a Clore Fellow, which has taken him to the US to study new business models and innovation in content to reach new audiences via digital platforms. It also involved a secondment with the Mayor of London’s Creative & Cultural Industries team where he devised a Young People’s Leadership Programme for the winning London Borough of Culture.