Videos for the weekend

12th January 2013

Always looking for the new and different, I am extending this blog's 'Links for the weekend' (see tomorrow) with a complementary post that features just videos. Which doesn't mean that I won't include videos in the 'Links' but rather that more

#ROLive: our ‘House’

9th January 2013

Hard though it is to believe, it is nearly seventeen years since we went backstage at the Royal Opera House in the BBC fly-on-the-wall series The House. Michael Kaiser, who later became general director of Covent Garden, summed more

Royal Opera LIVE, with added live blog

7th January 2013

20:16 I'm won over - not by the switching at The Space but by the view of the performance that the 'mix' channel offers. (Suzy Klein, incidentally, doing a great job.) And with that, I think I'm going to sign more

Links for the weekend

6th January 2013

One of the things you quickly learn as a producer is not to use 'Happy Birthday to you' in a film. Remarkably, the song remains in copyright, and as a consequence, you need to secure clearance for its use and more

12 blogs from 2012

30th December 2012

The most popular strand of this blog is the 'Links for the week' feature that I aim to post each Sunday. Although I pick up my recommendations from Twitter and Facebook as well as my general reading around the web, more

2012 top ten, 6: John Wyver

29th December 2012

Following is my contribution to the week of top tens, and the last of this half-dozen offerings. Again - apart from the first - this in no particular order. Many thanks to Keith, Linda, Todd, Simon and Louise for the more

2012 top ten, 4: Simon Field

27th December 2012

Our cultural top tens for the year continue with this selection by our colleague at Illuminations Films, producer Simon Field. Simon: This is not so much a top ten, but more a selection of memorable events and experiences over more