Tonight at BFI Southbank I am introducing three documentaries about the arts made for British television more than fifty years ago. The screening is part of the excellent BFI project Visions of Change about television documentaries from more
Tonight sees the opening of an exciting series of screenings and talks at BFI Southbank exploring the evolution of the television documentary in Britain. Visions of Change features a host of television treasures from the 1950s and '60s - more
Tomorrow night Sky Arts premieres our new film for The Hot Ticket strand, Ai Weiwei at the RA. We have already produced Matthew Bourne's The Car Man as a Hot Ticket and next week we are recording another major more
To BFI Southbank for the first screening in a short season marking the 60th anniversary of the ITV network that went on air on 22 September 1955. To celebrate the network's 21st birthday, back in 1976, Thames Television put more
Perhaps you've noticed that this blog has been sadly neglected over past months. I have kept meaning to return to it but I have been doing so much other writing across the summer that somehow there has never quite been more
I've had a wonderful birthday week in France, and now I'm back with all sorts of new challenges to face. Here's a selection of three things for today, before - inspired a bit by my birthday blog - I start more
Each day I highlight just three things. Sometimes there are links between them, oftentimes there are not. • State of Terror: innovative interactive report from veteran BBC journalist Peter Taylor about the financing of ISIS. • Martha Graham - more
Each day I try to highlight three things (although on some days, like today, the post is a little late). Sometimes there are connections between the three things, oftentimes there are not. • jam & cheese: this really is very cool - more
Each day I highlight three things (although on some days, like today, the post is a little late). Sometimes there are connections between the three things, oftentimes there are not. • The future of memory - disrupting the archives to more
Each day I highlight three things. Sometimes there are connections between them, oftentimes there not. • C20 Society Churches Database: a truly wonderful resource from the Twentieth Century Society. • The Smithsons on Housing: writer and filmmaker B. S. Johnson's eccentric more