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I am the composer on the second series of The Hour , a drama set in a 1950s BBC newsroom. My job is to create original music to support sections of the programme, hopefully enhancing them. I w...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/2012/11/the-hour-musical-score.shtml

The Secret of Crickley Hall , adapted from the best-selling novel by James Herbert , is a chilling ghost story that moves between two time frames: 1943 and 2012. Filming the contemporary set fo...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/2012/11/crickley-hall-visual-effects.shtml

If you had been in our office a few months ago you may have been slightly bewildered by the excitement that greeted our postman. Never before has the delivery of a letter caused such a stir. ...

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It's safe to say that making Operation Iceberg was not easy. And because of the scale of the expedition if things went awry... they could really go awry. Operation Iceberg is a two part series...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/2012/10/operation-iceberg-risks.shtml

America is the world leader in locking people up. Today in the land of the free there are more prisoners per head than anywhere else in the world . So back in July our TV development team thoug...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/2012/10/stacey-dooley-in-the-usa-girls.shtml

Chance, risk, uncertainty, luck - call it what you will - affects every part of our lives. And so when BBC Four commissioned our programme Tails You Win: The Science Of Chance there was a hug...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/2012/10/tails-you-win-science-of-chance.shtml

Tom asked me out at school today, and no, we're not 10 we're 40 (ish) which makes the whole asking me out in the playground awkward. Everyone looking. In order to see this content you need to ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/2012/10/me-and-mrs-jones.shtml

My career has been most closely associated with science fiction, which is no surprise given the years I spent writing and producing The X-Files TV series and feature films. But for Hunted , th...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/2012/10/hunted.shtml

The Story Of Wales was over a year in production. And what an ambitious project it was to tell the story of a nation. 'Epic' was the name of the game. As the production manager, my challenge...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/2012/10/the-story-of-wales.shtml

The essence of the new series Nigellissima is to show how easy it is to bring the spirit of Italy into the kitchen and onto the plate - using ingredients available in any English supermarket. ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/2012/09/nigellissima-kitchen-studio-set.shtml

BBC One 's new eight-part period drama The Paradise is based on the classic French novel Au Bonheur des Dames by Émile Zola . Adapted by Bill Gallagher (Lark Rise To Candleford ) and set in...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/2012/09/the-paradise-set.shtml

I read recently there are only three questions in life worth asking oneself: 'Am I having sex? Do I have a family? Am I intellectually stimulated?' With three yeses you're basically in paradise...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/2012/09/be-your-own-boss-richard-reed.shtml

The new series of Fake Or Fortune? begins with Fiona Bruce , Bendor Grosvenor and myself investigating a small work said to have been painted by Degas . A massive name, a faker's favourite. T...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/2012/09/fake-or-fortune.shtml

I often describe myself as a storyteller. It's the reason I work as a TV exec producer - to find extraordinary people, and tell their extraordinary stories. As a Dad, I regularly read stories t...

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With The Thick Of It back on our screens after a bit of a gap there may be more than a few confused viewers trying to remember who did what and needing a bit of a lie-down. So here's a rough g...

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