After the pleasingly popular post yesterday, our end-of-year cultural top tens continue with Linda's choice. Happy Christmas, everyone. Linda: These are in no particular order, though my list is somewhat skewed by a three week trip to Uganda this more
Each year each of us at Illuminations and at our sister company Illuminations Films contributes a top ten of cultural highlights of the year (although we missed this in 2011), We are running these daily through this holiday week, with more
Yesterday we learned that a performance project on which we had been working seriously since August will not get broadcast funding. This was to have been a television version of a thrilling production that I admired immensely in the theatre more
For yesterday's post I scribbled some notes about our filming this week for the research project Shakespearean London Theatres. With a company of nine actors we have been staging scenes from four early modern plays and more
So, you know, what does a producer actually do? Well, judging by the paucity of posts this week, when he's filming he certainly doesn't have time for his blog. Since Monday we have been shooting short drama scenes for the more
One of the ways in which I'm keen to continue refreshing our blog is by beginning to make better use of selected - and updated - reprises from our archive. There is a good deal of interesting stuff buried away more
The Julius Caesar DVD has arrived! The disc includes a new 40-minute documentary Julius Caesar: Behind the Scenes with location footage and interviews with cast and crew. We will be presenting parts of that here over the next month. But more
I was sorry to read last week of the death at the age of 90 of artist William Turnbull (above). You can read fine obituaries of him by Michael McNay for the Guardian and Mark Hudson more
Even though I was giving a paper at the Channel 4 and British film culture conference on Friday, the thirtieth anniversary of the switch-on rather snuck up on me. Then it was 4.20pm and I realised that it more
Today we film for Sky Arts the first of four (and, we hope, more) Rosenblatt Recitals from Wigmore Hall. The American bel canto tenor Lawrence Brownlee, accompanied by painist Iain Burnside, is giving more