Credits 1970 – 1990

THE KIDS ARE UNITED
BBC TV "Man Alive"
Anna Scher creates a drama workshop with the youth of Ulster

ACTING WITH ANNA (x 6)
Channel Four
Drama Series from Anna Scher and members of her Theatre

IT'S OUR WORLD ( x 6)
Landseer/Channel Four/NHK/S4C/IET
Acclaimed international series of six dramas, conceived and acted by teenagers

BRAVEHEART
BBC Television 'The Lowdown'
Award-winning documentary about a remarkable young girl's battle against brain tumours.
· Royal Television Society Award - Children's Factual

NATALIA MAKAROVA - IN A CLASS OF HER OWN
Landseer/Channel Four
A unique collaboration between Mme Makarova and Derek Bailey produced this very personal and critical study of a ballerina at work

THE HERMITAGE
LBA/BBC/NBC
A 90 minute documentary with Peter Ustinov and Natalie Wood

HOWARD HODGKIN
Arts Council/Channel Four
Arts Council documentary made with the celebrated painter in India and Wiltshire

FANTASIA FOR 34 GUITARS
Sherry Shippers of Spain/BBC TV
A documentary on the International Segovia Guitar Competition

MESSAGES FROM BHUPEN KHAKAR
Arts Council
The Indian painter takes us on a tour of his home town of Baroda

PAINTING CHICAGO
Arts Council
The artist Craigie Aitchison does a portrait of the 90 year old ex-heavyweight boxer 'The Chicago Kid'

THE MIRACLE OF INTERVALE AVENUE
BBC TV "Everyman"
Profile of the last Jewish community in New York's South Bronx.
· Nominated for Grierson Award for Best Documentary
· American Video Conference/Billboard Best Documentary 1989

MAGGI AND MAX, HAMBLING AND WALL
Channel Four
A film with the comedian Max Wall and the painter Maggi Hambling

GEORGE STUBBS
BBCTV
A documentary of the 18th Century horse painter to coincide with the major Tate Gallery retrospective of the artist

TO BE HAMLET
Arts & Entertainment Network
With Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Richard Burton, Jean-Louis Barrault, Vittorio Gassman among many

DAME PEGGY
Landseer/Channel Four
Peggy Ashcroft reviews her theatrical life with Michael Billington

JIM PRIOR'S BRITAIN
Landseer/Channel Four
A personal view by the then Minister of State for Northern Ireland

NO EXIT
Channel Four
The Jewish Refuseniks in Russia. Filmed secretly in Moscow and in Israel with Bernard Levin

CROWN AND SHAMROCK (x6)
Channel Four
A documentary series of six 30 minute programmes on the Anglo-Irish

PETER HALL - WORK IN PROGRESS
Channel Four
A 90 minute documentary on Peter Hall as he leaves the National Theatre after fifteen years as Director

TWO WOMEN IN THREE DIMENSIONS
LWT "South Bank Show"
A contrasting profile of two women sculptors, Wendy Taylor and Nicola Hicks

COVENT GARDEN
BTA/ITV Network
A dramatic recreation of Covent Garden's colourful history

THE ORISTEIA AT EPIDAURUS
Channel Four
Featuring the National Theatre and filmed on location in Greece

FELLER BY THE NAME OF ....
Channel Four
An anarchic farce set and filmed in the period film studios of Bombay and starring Fulton McKay

ENTER THE ADVENTURE
YHA / ITV Network
Youngsters find a dramatic world of adventure through their computer screen
· BISFA Gold Award, BISFA ITV Award 1985

MR PYE (x 4)
Channel Four
Four-hour dramatisation of Mervyn Peake's novel with Derek Jacobi and Judy Parfitt filmed on the island of Sark

JOHN LENNON: A JOURNEY IN THE LIFE
BBC TV "Everyman"/WNET
The first authorised biography of Lennon. Introduced by Yoko Ono.

A PENNY FOR YOUR DREAMS
Landseer/BBC TV/S4C
A major drama based on the life of film pioneer William Haggar, with Dafydd Hywell and Sue Roderick
· Festival Award - 9th Celtic Film Festival.

WHO NEEDS A MACHINE-GUNNER?
BBC TV "40 Minutes"
Film exploring the impact of long-term unemployment on a family living in rural England

JAMES GALWAY MASTERCLASS (x 6)
London Artists/Ulster TV
Six programmes with the master flautist

BERLIOZ 'TE DEUM'
Polytel Music Productions/Channel Four
With Claudio Abbado

MUSIC IN TIME (x 16)
Polytel Film
A sixteen-hour history of music filmed throughout Western and Eastern Europe and presented by James Galway

A LONG WAY FROM TIPPERARY AND ARMAGH
Channel Four
A musical portrait of the Irish group - The Clancy Brothers

AFTER THE GOLD
Landseer/Ulster TV
with the pianist Barry Douglas, winner of the 1986 Tchaikovsky Piano Competition
in Moscow
· BP Award: Best Arts Documentary

FROM THE NEW WORLD
LWT "South Bank Show"/PBS Network USA
The first year of the America's unique training orchestra - the New World Symphony - in Miami under its conductor Michael Tilson Thomas. With violinist Joshua Bell.

SINFONIETTA II (x 6)
Channel Four
A series of performance and analysis by Paul Crossley of the work of significant contemporary composers with the London Sinfonietta

PUNCH AND JUDY
Channel Four
Television presentation of Harrison Birtwistle's controversial opera

GLORIANA
RM Arts
Benjamin Britten's opera from the London Coliseum with the English National Opera Company

YAN TAN TETHERA
Channel Four
Studio production of the opera by Harrison Birtwistle

THE KNOT GARDEN
Channel Four
Michael Tippett's celebrated opera

RUSALKA
Channel Four
Dvorák's opera from the London Coliseum with the English National Opera

EIGHT SONGS FOR A MAD KING
Opera Factory/Channel Four
Peter Maxwell Davies' opera for one voice

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