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Even as I have been neglecting the Illuminations blog, for which apologies once more, I have been writing elsewhere. Today's brief entry here points to a post I've written for a History of the BBC blog; below there is news more
Even as I have been neglecting the Illuminations blog, for which apologies once more, I have been writing elsewhere. Today's brief entry here points to a post I've written for a History of the BBC blog; below there is news more
To BFI Southbank on Monday for a triple bill of television dramas by women playwrights: The Tamer Tamed, 1956, by Elaine Morgan (above); Still Waters, 1972, by Julia Jones; and A Kind of Marriage, 1976, by Buchi Emecheta. The programme more
In the early evening on Tuesday and Thursday of this coming week, 2 and 4 October, Mark Rylance performs Harold Pinter's Nobel Lecture Art, Truth & Politics as part of the excellent 'Pinter at the Pinter' season. These charity more
Last night's BBC Two broadcast of Performance Live: Hofesh Shechter's Clowns, our co-production with Hofesh Shechter Company, received a barnstorming reception on Twitter. Below is a selection of responses, together with three more of Todd MacDonald's exceptional production images. more
One of the highlights of the summer was working with Hofesh Shechter to film his half-hour dance work Clowns. The film is first screened tomorrow night, 22 September, on BBC Two at 10.30pm, and will then be on BBC iPlayer for 30 more
Our production with the Almeida of Robert Icke's staging of Hamlet only has a few days left on BBCiPlayer. You can catch it here until Monday 30 April. Hamlet captures the Almeida Theatre’s 2017 acclaimed production of William Shakespeare’s great play, recorded more
Much is being written about the truly extraordinary achievements of Sir Peter Hall, whose death at the age of 86 has been announced. Mark Lawson's piece for the Guardian is already a highlight: deeply informed, admiring but far from uncritical. And more
Next Thursday, 15 June, as part of the conference Britain, Canada and the Arts at Senate House in London, which I have helped to draw together, I am introducing a special screening (open to all) of two television drama productions more
Today the wonderful people at Network release a DVD of 13 half-hour thrillers made by LWT in 1972 as the anthology strand The Frighteners. Their description is as follows:
Featuring the talents of John Thaw, Ian Holm, Warren Clarke, Ianmore
On Tuesday night BFI Southbank screens a film that is, for me, one of the singular masterpieces of television drama, Richard Eyre's film Country from a script by Trevor Griffiths. Made for BBC Television in 1981, this rarely-seen 80-minute drama more