GEORGE ORWELL (1st blog)
In 1999 I found myself helping Lecturer Tony Grace and his students at the University of the West of Scotland with their Media Studies. Tony was also an avid Orwell enthusiast and reminded me that [...]
THE DREAM TEAM
Dolly Parton’s appearance in my life was yet another highlight and along with Jools Holland we would form a very creative partnership. It all began when BBC Two decided to celebrate Country Music with a [...]
JANE HAINING: Scotland’s Schindler
On this International Holocaust Remembrance Day, let’s think of Jane Haining a Scottish missionary who was murdered in the notorious Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz,prisoner 79467 The Jewish nation bestowed their highest honor on this daughter [...]
PROSPECTS (12 x 1hrs.)
The Sweeney, Minder, Widows, all had a radical impact on the way television drama was produced. These famous tv series’s led the field in the shift from studio-based drama to the reality of location based [...]
SUBMARINE – THINGS SENSED BUT UNSEEN
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Vaughan Williams, Dame Joan Sutherland, Vivienne Westwood, Rudolph Nureyev, John Constable, Yehudi Menuhin, They are amongst the world’s most famous people. Their film profiles had been entered into the biggest and most [...]
BOBBY ROBSON THE FIRST 90 MINUTES – are the most important
THE FIRST 90 MINUTES – ‘ …are the most important’ In 2002 he was knighted Sir Bobby Robson For those of you who have been reading my posts about the two Olympic Games films Mike and [...]