Blog posts by year and monthJune 2009
Posts (7)
It Felt Like a Kiss - trail
It Felt Like A Kiss is a show I am doing with Felix Barrett of the theatre company Punchdrunk. It's at the Manchester International Festival and is a co-production between the festival and the BBC. It starts on July 2nd. This is a short trail.
Into the darkness
It Felt Like a Kiss started life as an experimental film I made for the BBC last year. My aim was to try and find a more involving and emotional way of doing political journalism on TV...
The introduction to It Felt Like a Kiss
It Felt Like A Kiss - the show - will be a walkthrough experience. Groups of nine people will go to an office block in central Manchester. They will then get in a lift. They will step out and then walk through the world and the ideas of the film...
The postcards and the truth drug
Sodium Pentothal is an anaesthetic. But it was also used by both sides in the Cold War as a truth drug in interrogations. It was made by Abbot Laboratories. They used a very strange way to advertise Pentothal. They sent postcards from around the world to doctors in America.
A glimpse inside
These are some of the books that will be inside: The Hidden Persuaders - Vance Packard Beyond Freedom and Dignity - B F Skinner The Invisible Government - David Wise and Thomas B Ross USA - John Dos Passos...
The Medium and the Message
This is a website expressing my personal views - through a selection of opinionated observations and arguments. I'll be including stories I like, ideas I find fascinating, work in progress and a selection of material from the BBC archives.
