Tagged with: Hd
Posts (26)
Playing Sam in Lip Service's love triangle
Heather Peace
Actress
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...
Our Food: Exploring Britain's colourful history
Alex Langlands
Our Food is a celebration of the nation's food - its origins, its tastes and the story it can tell us about our island's history. I'm passionate about food and where it comes from. At home I try and grow as many fruits and vegetables as the garden and greenhouse will allow and firmly bel...
The thousands of creative decisions behind BBC Four's Dirk Gently
Stephen Mangan
Actor
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...
Lucian Freud: filming with the artist
Randall Wright
Director
At a meeting just before Christmas 2010 Lucian Freud, a small ancient figure at 88, sitting surrounded by fresh piles of newspapers, with their lurid headlines, suddenly stared, with characteristic bulging eyes, out of the window of Clarke's restaurant in Notting Hill, London. He had notice...
Inside Men: Armed robbery and the modern man
Tony Basgallop
Writer
I could rob a bank. I could rob two banks, if I wanted. But I don't because the risk outweighs the reward. Prison seems grim and I'm not all that bothered about being rich. I can separate all the men I know into two categories: alphas and betas. Leaders and followers, if you will. Inside...
Children Of The Revolution: Filming in Tahrir Square
May Abdalla
Director
Tonight, as Egypt - Children Of The Revolution airs - filmed over a year through Egypt's revolution and tumultuous aftermath - two of the three young people we followed, Gigi and Ahmed, are back on the streets still fighting for the regime to "really" fall. The third, Tahir, an Islamist tort...
Protecting Our Children
Sacha Mirzoeff
Series Producer
Some television programmes take a long time to make. If you want to show the most hidden human behaviour within our communities, you're going to need a lot of patience. The BBC had good relations with Bristol Council after making Someone To Watch Over Me - a series about child social wo...
Birdsong: Interview with the director
Fiona Wickham
Editor, BBC TV blog
Sebastian Faulks' World War I novel Birdsong is about "the violence of a love affair, and exquisite love in war", says screenwriter Abi Morgan, who has adapted the modern classic for BBC One. Director Philip Martin told the BBC TV blog about the experience of making the two-part drama. Wha...
The Crusades: the thrill of a priceless manuscript
Thomas Asbridge
Presenter
I first fell in love with crusading history as a schoolboy and continue to be fascinated by these medieval holy wars. In many ways, they have become my life's work. For me, the Crusades, the wars fought between Christians and Muslims for possession of the Holy Land between 1095 and 1291, hav...
Horizon: Do you see the same colours as me?
Sophie Robinson
Back in April this year I was called to a brainstorm with the Horizon production team to discuss the science of colour. It seemed like such a fun and compelling idea and addresses the kind of questions we've all asked ourselves. Do you see the same colours that I see? What if what I see as y...
