Blog posts by year and monthMarch 2012
Posts (6)
Bang Goes The Theory: The human-powered plane experiment
Bang Goes the Theory's resident engineer, inventor and presenter Jem Stansfield is a man who seems to have done pretty much everything: from building a pair of Spiderman-style gloves powered by vacuum cleaners that allows him to scale the sides of buildings to fulfilling that childhood dream of ...
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...
Making Rita Simons: My Daughter, Deafness and Me
When we approached Rita about making Rita Simons: My Daughter, Deafness and Me, she was initially unsure about the amount of exposure it would bring her then five-year-old daughter Maiya. Rita Simons: My Daughter, Deafness and Me Maiya was diagnosed with hearing loss at six months old...
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...
White Heat: Playing Charlotte over 24 years
When I first saw the scripts for White Heat I was auditioning for the part of Lilly, but as soon I started reading it was the character of Charlotte that I identified with. Jack (Sam Claflin) and Charlotte (Claire Foy) I had worked with the writer Paula Milne before on The Night Watch...
The thousands of creative decisions behind BBC Four's Dirk Gently
One man, Douglas Adams, wrote two and a half books about the adventures of holistic detective, Dirk Gently, and now over 100 people have collaborated to bring his character to the small screen for a new series which starts tonight. Dirk Gently (Stephen Mangan) and Richard MacDuff (Darren Bo...
