Blog posts by year and monthJune 2012
Posts (5)
Secrets Of Our Living Planet: Filming the white rhino
It shouldn't have been this wet. The 4 x 4 slid across the muddy track like it was an oil slick and slammed into the bank on the edge of the road, almost knocking us all out. Water buffalo stood sodden and dripping with rain in the centre of the road, staring with a blank aggression as thoug...
Julius Caesar: Political thriller in a modern African state
On a dismal afternoon at the end of April, as the rain pours down outside, the cast and crew of Julius Caesar huddle in padded jackets around bright electric fires. We are shooting a film for BBC Four of William Shakespeare's vivid political thriller on which I am the producer. Behind ...
The Men Who Made Us Fat: Are you TOFI?
At London's Hammersmith Hospital a suave gent by the name of Dr Jimmy Bell is ushering me into his MRI scanner. I'm here for a scientific trial as part of the television series I'm making for the BBC - The Men Who Made Us Fat. I came up with the idea for the series a while ago as I was wa...
The Secret History Of Our Streets
Charles Booth's survey of London is the most ambitious social survey ever conducted. Starting in 1886, it took Booth 17 years to visit every one of its tens of thousands of streets. When he was finished, he'd produced a series of stunning social maps, which colour-code each of London's stree...
Filming Gary Barlow: On Her Majesty's Service
Making a show like Gary Barlow: On Her Majesty's Service is a director's dream job. To be able to travel all around the world, on a real mission of discovery, and be part of something as big as the Jubilee feels like a real honour. Gary was asked some time ago to make a song for the Quee...
