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Joe Orton Laid Bare

Duration: 1 hour, 19 minutes

First broadcast: Sat 25^th Nov 2017, 21:00 on BBC Two ScotlandLatest broadcast: Tue 9^th Jan 2018, 01:15 on BBC Two England

Celebrating groundbreaking 1960s playwright Joe Orton. Fifty years since his murder at the hands of his lover, the film charts Joe's brief meteoric rise and tragic demise. Show more

Contributors

Executive Producer:: Franny Moyle
Director:: Richard Curson Smith
Production Company:: IWC Media

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Docudramas

Source: BBC Online

This listing contains language that some may find offensive.

The Novel

The Empire Writes Back

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: Sat 18^th Jul 2020, 02:30 on BBC News EuropeLatest broadcast: Fri 24^th Jul 2020, 08:30 on BBC News South Asia

The final episode of the series examines how the British Empire was celebrated in the novels of some writers and taken apart and upended by others. Show more

Contributors

Executive Producer:: Franny Moyle
Production Company:: IWC Media
Actor:: Robbie Coltrane
Actor:: Robson Green
Actor:: Emeka Sesay
Actor:: Tuppence Middleton
Actor:: Sean Biggerstaff
Actor:: Antonia Thomas
Actor:: Nitin Ganatra
Actor:: Don Warrington
Actor:: Nick Ikunda
Editor:: Jane Tubb
Actor:: Titana Muthui
Editor:: Andrew Quigley
Actor:: Rian Gordon
Editor:: Bradley Richards
Actor:: Paapa Essiedu
Narrator:: Nikki Amuka-Bird
Producer:: John Mullen
Production Manager:: Catherine Ross
Actor:: Sule Rimi
Actor:: Fumilayo Brown-Olateju
Director:: Sarah Barclay
Director:: Richard Curson Smith

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FactualArts, Culture & the Media

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Source: BBC Online

Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death

Duration: 1 hour, 29 minutes

First broadcast: Sat 10^th Oct 2015, 21:00 on BBC Two Northern IrelandLatest broadcast: Tue 13^th Sep 2022, 23:10 on BBC Four HD

Documentary exploring Ted Hughes, one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, focusing on how his life story influenced his work and vision. Show more

Contributors

Director:: Richard Curson Smith
Producer:: Richard Curson Smith
Executive Producer:: Ross Wilson
Executive Producer:: Liz Hartford
Producer:: Lucy Evans

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FactualArts, Culture & the Media

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Documentaries

Source: BBC Online

Consenting Adults

Duration: 1 hour, 20 minutes

First broadcast: Wed 5^th Sep 2007, 21:00 on BBC FourLatest broadcast: Sat 31^st Jul 2010, 22:30 on BBC Four

Drama based around the 1950s Wolfenden Report into the decriminalisation of homosexuality, in which the report's chairman struggles to come to terms with his son's homosexuality. Show more

Contributors

Actor:: Charles Dance
Actor:: Sean Biggerstaff
Actor:: Samantha Bond
Actor:: Haydn Gwynne
Actor:: Mel Smith
Writer:: Julian Mitchell
Producer:: Richard Curson Smith

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DramaHistorical

Source: BBC Online

Rudolf Nureyev - Dance to Freedom

Duration: 1 hour, 29 minutes

First broadcast: Sat 19^th Dec 2015, 20:50 on BBC Two HDLatest broadcast: Mon 25^th Mar 2019, 22:00 on BBC Four HD

Dance, espionage and passion come together in a powerful docudrama that tells the extraordinary story of how Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defected to the West in 1961. Show more

Contributors

Producer:: Richard Curson Smith
Writer:: Richard Curson Smith
Director:: Richard Curson Smith
Executive Producer:: Franny Moyle
Executive Producer:: Greg Sanderson
Executive Producer:: Jan Younghusband
Rudolph Nureyev:: Artem Ovcharenko
Clara Saint:: Svetlana Smirnova
Yuri Soloviev:: Artem Yakovlev
Vitaly Strizhevsky:: Yuri Utkin
Pierre Lacotte:: Denis Aliev
Konstantin Sergeyev:: Vladimir Chernychov
Alla Osipenko:: Svetlana Bednenko
Natalia Dudinskaya:: Nataliya Grigorutsa
Tamara Zakrzhevskaya:: Alina Murzagalieva
Claire Motte:: Elena Rusina
Gregor Alexinski:: Konstantin Kordo-Syesoev
Ghislaine Thesmar:: Anna Tikhomirova
Assistant Director:: Diana Ugryumova
Assistant Director:: Liza Chicherina
Production Designer:: Evgeny Drabkin
Production Assistant:: Eilis Martin
Production Assistant:: Emma Nicholson
Actor:: Ruth Dunbar
Production Coordinator:: Robyn Gray
Production Manager:: Catherine Ross
Production Manager:: Nan Gourlay
Music Supervisor:: Ross Sellwood
Music Adviser:: Elizabeth Rogers
Colourist:: Michael Sanders
On-line editing:: Dominic McMahon
Re-recording mixer:: Dave Murricane
Assistant Producer:: Chris Marks
Associate Producer:: Yelena Durden-Smith
Composer:: Richard Canavan
Director of photography:: Graham Smith
Editor:: Tom Herington
Production Company:: IWC Media

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Source: BBC Online

The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family

Series 1

Episode 1

Duration: 59 minutes

Audio described

First broadcast: Fri 13^th Aug 2021, 21:00 on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: Sun 23^rd Jun 2024, 14:58 on BBC History Channel

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Thomas Boleyn, the patriarch of the Boleyns, is determined to elevate the family name. His ambitions for his three children will take them to the heart of the Tudor court.

Contributors

Mary Boleyn:: Elizabeth McCafferty
Thomas Boleyn:: Max Dowler
Thomas Howard:: Philip Brodie
Anne Boleyn:: Rafaelle Cohen
Thomas Wolsey:: Roger Evans
Young Anne Boleyn:: Rosaleen Cunningham-Day
George Boleyn:: Sam Retford
Executive Producer:: Maxine Watson
Series Producer:: Richard Curson Smith
Director:: Katie Greening
Director:: Emma Frank

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FactualHistory

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The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family

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The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family: Series 1

Source: BBC Online

The Importance of Being Oscar

Duration: 1 hour, 24 minutes

First broadcast: Sat 20^th Apr 2019, 21:00 on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: Sun 1^st May 2022, 22:10 on BBC Four

A star-studded account of Oscar Wilde’s glittering and controversial career before his trial for homosexual crimes and tragic fall from grace. Show more

Contributors

Lady Bracknell:: Anna Chancellor
Virginia, Hester Worsley, Cecily, Lady Windermere:: Anna Devlin
Canterville Ghost, Basil Hallward:: James Fleet
Jokannen, Dorian Gray, Lord Goring:: Freddie Fox
Young Oscar Wilde, Vivian, Bunthorne, Jack Worthing, Lord Windermere:: Ben Lloyd-Hughes
Salome, Mrs Allonby, Gwendolyn, Lady Chiltern:: Alice Orr-Ewing
Oscar Wilde:: Nicholas Rowe
Herodias, Mrs Arbuthnot, Mrs Erlynne:: Claire Skinner
Herod, Cyril, Lord Illingworth, Algernon, Robert Chiltern, Darlington, Henry Wotton:: Ed Stoppard
Director:: Richard Curson Smith
Executive Producer:: Franny Moyle

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FactualArts, Culture & the MediaArts

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Source: BBC Online

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