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That 'Pets: Wild At Heart' hamster who filled his cheeks? I fell in love and kept him as my own
You may have watched the delightful hamster clip: Hear from the series producer who became his owner.
Nature’s Miracle Orphans: I can’t explain my bond with Moyo, the baby elephant
Meet orphaned Moyo, who's found a place in sanctuary founder Roxy Danckwert's heart, kitchen and sofa.
Socks, chocolate and saddle sores: Filming The Hunt
How a friendship 'for life' was formed in the wild for this assistant producer and camerawoman
Sound Of Cinema: The Music That Made The Movies
Martin Scorsese, Vangelis and Hans Zimmer gave our crew shivers down the spine through impromtu performance and conversation for BBC Four's series on the music of the movies.
My Murder: Why this drama had to have a heart
As much as television commissions can be few and far between for any writer, let alone newer writers like me, My Murder wasn't a project I immediately jumped at. Danny (Malachi Kirby), Samantha (Simona Zivkovska) and Shakilus (John Boyega) I guess I needed assurance that the Beeb wa...
Codebreakers, spies and double lives: World War II's secret stories
Despite our fascination with World War II it never fails to surprise me how many unusual, forgotten or relatively untold stories there still are. An upcoming series of programmes on BBC Two takes a fascinating look at some of these lesser known tales, focusing on some of the ordinary heroes ...
Life's Too Short: Me, Johnny Depp and Ricky Gervais
Of all my career achievements, I am most proud of Life's Too Short. I say this because I have a much closer connection with the series than any project I have worked on before. It was an idea that came from a conversation with Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant whom I'd first worked wi...
Business Nightmares With Evan Davis
I have a secret concern about the Business Nightmares programme. I worry that you'll enjoy it too much. I worry that you'll revel in the stupidity of the mistakes, laugh at the businesses involved and idly sit back, comfortable in the knowledge that you would never be as daft. Of course,...
The Ladybird Books Story: How Britain Got The Reading Bug
'I offered to give her a potted - or Ladybird - version of the history.' Ladybird enthusiast Helen Day on working with the television crew on the Timeshift documentary for BBC Four.
World's Strictest Parents: Looking after two troublesome girls
I came to be a part of The World's Strictest Parents as a challenge thrown at me by one of my friends, who thought I brought up my four kids based on strong locally grounded beliefs, and felt that I could test myself out with some kids who did not know what these were and see how they coped with...
Why Mad Men needs no hard sell
When Mad Men first appeared on BBC Four in 2008 it wasn't the casual racism and misogyny that shocked most viewers. It was the smoke. Mad Men introduced us to a world of 1960s ad men who smoked like industrial revolution-era chimneys and drank up spirits like whisky-powered Henry hoovers. An...
We ask Aidan Turner: Are you Team Elizabeth or Team Demelza?
Alright, Demelza's mostly had eyes for her dog so far and Elizabeth's told Ross to forget her. But what does lead actor Aidan Turner think about the two ladies in Poldark's life?
Hilary Devey: Becoming a Dragon
Being told that I was going to be a Dragon on Dragons' Den was one of the highlights of my life, as I had been a fan of the show for many years. In the late 1990s, I founded Pall-Ex, a distribution network that revolutionised the process of transporting goods across the UK and Europe, making...
Fried's Mandeep Dhillon: 'Cast becomes like family, and I wouldn't change it for the world'
Starring in Some Girls, My Jihad and now Fried, which of her characters is Mandeep most like?
Five reasons why we love British films so much
What is it about British cinema that makes it so watchable? Everyone has a favourite, and to celebrate 25 years of brilliant BBC Films, BBC Radio 1's film critic Rhianna Dhillon tells us which films she'd watch with a bucket of popcorn...
Jimmy's Food Factory: Taking apart supermarket food
Jimmy's Food Factory opened for business on BBC One last week, and I wonder if you found it hard to believe some of the surprising things I discovered about the food in our shopping trolleys. Whether you love or loathe the supermarkets they feed the nation. There's a tremendous amount of scien...
Growing up around elephants opened my eyes to the magic of nature
This Wild Life's Saba Douglas-Hamilton and her family live with leopards, monkeys and hyenas on their doorstep
Lark Rise: I design the costumes and corsets
For a costume designer, Lark Rise To Candleford is an interesting project to work on. The research beforehand means I get to spend hours looking at photographs and paintings of the period. It's a part of the job I particularly enjoy. For this fourth series of Lark Rise To Candleford I spent f...
What I love about being in Outnumbered
The funniest moment of filming the third series of Outnumbered was when there was a rather confused pigeon flapping around the family kitchen. It was absolutely hilarious to watch the pigeon's trainer failing to maintain control and even funnier watching Dan squirm and yelp any time the pigeon c...
The Code: Revealing the secret
When I was 12 my maths teacher took me aside after one lesson and let me into a secret that changed my life forever. Mathematics, it turned out, was more than just the long division we were practicing in the classroom. He started to tell me fantastic stories that were written in the lang...
