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Writing The Preston Passion from the ground up
Here's the brief from Aaqil Ahmed, the BBC's Head of Religion and Ethics: a) Tell the story of Christ's Passion, his suffering and crucifixion, in a way that's fresh and universal. And b) Set it in Preston. That's it. Writing drama for TV normally means having a detailed series ...
Casualty: I co-wrote the gangs storyline
Saturday's episode was my first Casualty script and I couldn't have asked for a more exciting introduction. It's a three-part story, which is unusual for Casualty, and it pitches the Holby Emergency Department (ED) team into the aftermath of a violent gang-related shooting and the police inve...
Theo's Adventure Capitalists: Can you sell Marmite to India?
The concept of Theo's Adventure Capitalists is: Can we do business abroad? Our great British nation who used to be fantastic international traders has really contracted back to our shores in the last century or so. When we look at the state of the British economy, we're coming slowly out of r...
The Challenger: Researching the space shuttle disaster
How getting to know the real-life people involved in the investigation of the Challenger disaster shaped the BBC Two drama.
Eastenders: E20
I've been playing Tamwar Masood on EastEnders for four years. Together with Charlie G Hawkins, who recently left EastEnders after playing Darren Miller for eight years, I have written the second online episode of EastEnders: E20 series three. The latest additions to the Albert Square spi...
Playing Sam in Lip Service's love triangle
Sam is everything I would like to be. Smart, cool, brave, steady but with a spark and a wicked sense of humour. She doesn't suffer fools and she intrinsically knows herself. Heather Peace as DS Sam Murray In series two of Lip Service I was given some real challenges with the writi...
Working at Wimbledon: I'm in charge of the queue
Tennis fans come from miles around to queue up for the prestigious sporting event – but did you ever wonder who keeps them in check?!
The Men Who Made Us Thin: Can you be fit and fat?
"They were far fitter than me in spite of their weight." Presenter Jacques Peretti found that thin doesn’t necessarily mean healthy when he joined a boot camp for his new BBC Two series The Men Who Made Us Thin.
Hormonal pigs and chickens' bottoms: Giles And Sue Live The Good Life
When the idea of living the Good Life was mooted it felt like a no-brainer. Spend the summer in dungarees, mooching round the garden, tending brassicas with one hand and a pair of goats with the other? Sounded like paradise, if paradise was a manure-smelling, weed-infested back garden in Met...
Protecting Our Parents: Capturing a unique view
'Building up trust and understanding over not just weeks, but months, was essential to filming.' Series producer Alice Perman on the sensitivities of filming the elderly care system for the BBC Two documentary.
Great War Diaries: Turning diaries into compelling drama
'I loved the idea of showing history as a kind of chaos or confusion.’ Director and screenwriter Jan Peter tells how the diaries of ordinary people helped to bring World War One to life, for BBC Two's factual drama series Great War Diaries.
Case Histories: Bringing Jackson Brodie to the screen
I had just finished filming Ashes To Ashes when Ruby Films sent me the novel Case Histories by Kate Atkinson, with a view to adapting it as the first two-parter in a new series for BBC One. To be honest, I was so knackered I didn't really feel like throwing myself into creating another serie...
Tudor Monastery Farm: The animals were the stars
'If the dog did not earn its keep, it was worthless.' Presenter Tom Pinfold on the realities of working as a tenant farmer in the 15th Century for the BBC Two farm series.
The Insider: How we kept the secret
"If the insider’s cover was blown we simply wouldn’t have a programme to deliver and we’d all be in big trouble." The risks in keeping the secrets of BBC Three's new series, by executive producer Ros Ponder.
Awe-inspiring moments from Nature's Epic Journeys
Cameraman Bob Poole on majestic bull elephants and seeing beyond a zebra's stripes
How To Survive Celebrity MasterChef: Heat one with Tish Potter
This year's culinary contestants share their top cookery cheats, and reveal their secrets to making great food under pressure. First up, actress Tish
Doctors: My inspiration for the stalker plot
I immediately saw potential for Jas to be in a situation where her privacy was invaded: Doctors storyliner Loretta Preece on where she got the idea for bringing stalking into the BBC One drama.
Life After War: Haunted by Helmand
'I entered their lives very quietly' - producer Michael Price on filming the survivors of the the worst attack on a British foot patrol in the history of the Afghan campaign.
Quick Cuts: Confessions from a hairdressers
Comedy writer Georgia Pritchett on the (misplaced) feeling of confidentiality we share with our hairdressers.
Best Of Men: Acting in a Paralympic drama
As an actor there are some auditions you are invited to where you want the part so much it's hard to control your excitement and nerves. For me The Best Of Men was one of those. I had known of Dr Guttmann ever since playing wheelchair basketball at the Guttmann Centre (now Stoke Mandeville S...
