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Top Of The Lake: Jane Campion on her crime mystery
Jane Campion, award-winning writer and director of The Piano, on her mysterious and visually stunning new drama for BBC Two, starring Holly Hunter and Elisabeth Moss.
Don't Tell The Bride: Planning my fiancee's wedding
My partner Kaleigh and I applied to be on a BBC Three show called Don't Tell The Bride. The concept sounded simple - we get £12,000 to get married, with one small snag. As the groom, I have to plan everything. How hard can it be? I've been with Kaleigh for six years, so I'd like to think I kn...
Is Football Racist? My Dad's story
It's not an exaggeration! Here I am, 32 years of age, I've been a professional footballer for half of my life yet I've never talked to my Dad about his days within the game. The truth is I'm kind of glad that I hadn't. My dad left school with the dream of being a footballer but only manage...
Death In Paradise: Playing a detective in the Caribbean
I'd say that Death In Paradise is a detective series in a familiar style with a contemporary twist provided by its exotic location. The show is set in the Caribbean on the fictitious island, Saint-Marie (actually Guadeloupe). There are surprises and mysteries in the storylines, but also...
The Crimson Field: Recreating a WW1 army hospital
'Entrances and exits had been cut into the canvas wherever necessary.' Production designer Cristina Casali shares design sketches and contruction photos from the set of the army hospital in BBC One's World War One period drama.
The Paradise: Katherine's need to conquer
'Katherine has never had a healthy, balanced relationship with anyone.' Elaine Cassidy reveals what she finds intriguing about her character in the BBC One period drama.
Original Drama Shorts: I directed Flea
'One of the biggest challenges was casting the right Flea. Originally she was written as a male.'
Rev. - Directing the second series
As the director of Rev. it's hugely exciting to see the second series go on air even though I am still very busy finishing the last couple of episodes. Rev. Adam Smallbone (Tom Hollander) jumps over a pew I watched episode one of series two on two TVs at home to get a sense of how al...
Silent Witness: My audition for Jack Hodgson
Reading scenes with Emilia Fox: Actor David Caves on his nerves before playing the new forensic scientist for BBC One's returning crime series.
The Great Outdoors: Can rambling ever be cool?
Being a comedy writer is quite a sedentary job, and the advent of email made it worse as we don't even get to nip to the Post Office to send off scripts any more. Eventually they will find a way to make coffee via USB and then we will never leave our chairs again. But you have to be active -...
How we went about keeping the Clangers' old-world charm
The all-new Clangers are actually hand-knitted, just like the originals. This and more sweet facts from the series animator.
Rastamouse: Q&A with the animators
Rastamouse. For those not yet in the know, he's all about Makin' A Bad Ting Good. As are Dinamo Productions, the Welsh company behind the stop motion animation for this new hit children's programme. We bartered some cheese in exchange for an interview with joint managing director Aron Evans. ...
How we documented Laura Hall's battle with booze
I'm the executive producer of Laura Hall: My Battle With Booze. We read about Laura, like so many people, when she hit the headlines earlier this year. Newspapers named her the "poster girl for binge Britain", while a judge even called her "despicable and rotten". She'd become an overnight...
Jim Chapman’s guide to the vlogging life
Millions of subscribers watch his every day life. His wife, sisters and brother vlog too. So what has Jim learned from his online experience - and from fellow superstar vloggers?
My five top Sky at Night moments - by presenter Chris Lintott
Our Solar System contains more secrets than we could ever imagine - but what are the most spectacular parts we've managed to uncover so far?
Why family is at the heart of The A Word
Actress Morven Christie on her bullish, single-minded but doting character, Alison
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: How to be a master manipulator Childermass-style
He has no respect for rank and he deserves some fun - stand back and admire how Childermass' power unfolds in BBC One's magical drama.
Judging Britain's 12 best new novelists for The Culture Show
The wizards at The Culture Show are a kindly bunch; they know that reading novels en masse is a task made all the more pleasurable if it can be done in warm weather and preferably in a deckchair. So last August, when I took delivery of my first batch of books to judge for the New Novelists: ...
A Home For Maisie: Why we adopted our ninth child
My husband Jim and I have always enjoyed a challenge. Having adopted eight children over 18 years, all placed with us as older children and each with differing needs, we were already reasonably challenged. But then we saw Maisie's profile in Children Who Wait magazine published by Adopti...
Call The Midwife: I have the strangest job
Training actors in how to take blood pressure, angle a syringe and listen to a baby's heartbeat is all part of the unusual work the real life midwife Terri Coates does on BBC One drama series Call The Midwife.
