Blog posts by year and monthOctober 2012
Posts (6)
Operation Iceberg: Balancing risks
It's safe to say that making Operation Iceberg was not easy. And because of the scale of the expedition if things went awry... they could really go awry. Operation Iceberg is a two part series on - you've guessed it - icebergs. Helicoptering in to plant a GPS tracker on a huge ...
Stacey Dooley in the USA: Girls Behind Bars
America is the world leader in locking people up. Today in the land of the free there are more prisoners per head than anywhere else in the world. Here's how a TV development team got access to the fascinating world of women's prisons
Tails You Win: The Science Of Chance
Chance, risk, uncertainty, luck - call it what you will - affects every part of our lives. And so when BBC Four commissioned our programme Tails You Win: The Science Of Chance there was a huge range of possible themes to explore, from gambling to natural disasters, extreme sports to collaps...
Me And Mrs Jones: Do I go for Tom or Billy?
Fran said I should be thrilled about a date with the school's do-able Dad. I mean, the last date I went on was... well it was with... it can't be... God, it was with my ex-husband!
Hunted: Our fascination with spies
My career has been most closely associated with science fiction, which is no surprise given the years I spent writing and producing The X-Files TV series and feature films. But for Hunted, the new series I created for the BBC, I've moved away from science fiction to the spy genre, which is m...
The Story Of Wales: Realising the team's ambition
Aerial shoots, computer-generated reconstructions and a top news presenter in demand: the making of epic BBC Two history series, The Story Of Wales.
