"Dear Kate, We were delighted with the Diana documentary – not only was it an excellent piece of journalism, but I thought it introduced an entirely new cast of characters into the field. We regard this as our most successful 8pm documentary this year."

“Producer/Director Kate Snell should take a bow, because this timely and disturbing documentary was exactly the sort of fearless investigative reporting that C4’s remit requires. Revelatory footage and stylish production values are rare bedfellows, but the macabre shots of clockwork tin circuses served as a chilling linking device and the programme never once fell into the trap of becoming maudlin or melodramatic.”

“The reader has to admire Snell’s tenacity. Diana Her Last Love is nothing if not thorough. In the course of her research, Snell travelled between London, Calcutta and Lahore. She has a gift for capturing the colour of towns, houses and interiors. She captures her interviewees expertly too. Snell’s chapter headings add to the pace and drama. The selling point of this book will be the depth of the revelations. What is more, it will sell and sell”

“Dear Kate, I just wanted to put on record what a first-class job you did in series producing Europe. You had a tiny amount of time to get a series together. You found powerful and memorable stories and then worked them very effectively with your team to deliver them under trying conditions. I really admired what you achieved"

"Dear Kate, Welcome back from yet another successful assignment. Wherever you operate for us you are a huge strength. Germany went very well indeed: I found your films an excellent insight into the two Germanies. Many many thanks."

"Dear Kate, I thought you did an excellent job on last night’s Dispatches. It owed a great deal to your intelligent, sensitive questioning and commentary. I hope we can keep you in the Dispatches fold for some while to come. We’re working at it!"

"If you tune into this truly bizarre, 10-year-long conning spree, you will certainly find yourself asking the question posed by the director Kate Snell to the chief victim, ‘Weren’t you just a little bit stupid?’ It may be cruel but it is an important and pressing question that arises in almost all tales of ruthlessly successful confidence artists. Do conmen rely on their marks being not merely liable to being fooled, but also almost willing to be so? This is a gripping cautionary tale."

"We were all led to believe that Diana Princess of Wales, had found true love in the arms of Dodi Fayed. This revealing documentary blows that theory apart. A programme bound to have royal watchers chattering over their breakfast tables tomorrow morning."

"Not for the faint hearted, a documentary in the Undercover series about your Christmas lunch. This is Channel 4’s third themed Christmas, and probably the strongest of them all."

"The Turkey Business, which launched C4’s Beastly Christmas season, proved very far from entertaining. An ingenious reporter from the Undercover team managed to penetrate the walls of secrecy that surround the operations of Britain’s biggest turkey producer. Clandestine footage showed appalling scenes that, to say the least, inspired scant confidence in the Government’s Welfare Code. It was instructive to contrast this voluntary code’s Five Freedoms from hunger and thirst; from discomfort; from fear and distress; as well as the freedom to express normal behaviour and the freedom from pain with the images on screen of crating, shackling, hanging, ‘milking’, stunning and so forth. I felt quite ill."

"A sweet-looking little boy with freckles opens this film on children’s drug use with an account of how he just walks down the street to receive six or seven offers of illegal substances. This enthralling and appalling film mixes first hand accounts with new research to show that drug-use among pre-teens is on the increase. And to fund their habits, most are turning to crime and the situation is worsening. First-class, frightening."