Under the Cranes
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
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| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Film-maker, Radio Producer |
| Location | North London |
| Introduction | Radio producer & film-maker. Research & producing programmes incl. Routes of English with Melvyn Bragg; Word of Mouth with Michael Rosen. Commissioned by BBC Radio 4 & Radio 3, I've produced feature programmes incl.Eye Hopes (30 mins montage about the city with commissioned poem by John Agard): The Smell of the Shale (30 min doc drawing on memories & archive of Speedway riders & fans from 1920s onwards): Oh My What a Rotten Song!(30 min music & social history about topical songwriters, Weston and Lee, writers of some of the most memorable topical songs & monologues of the first half of the 20th Century, with Roy Hudd, Billy Bragg, Denis Norden and Charles Chilton): 'A Place for Us' (30 min montage about experience of unaccompanied, asylum-seeking young people in East London): ';Zola in Norwood'; 45 min R3 Sunday Feature; 'A Story I Am In' 30 min poetry doc about James Berry; 'Crossing the Border: Poetry and Film R3: 'Adrian Mitchell: To Whom it May Concern'; 'The First Jazz Poet' R4: 'The American Art Tapes' R4 60 min; Sweeping the World for BBC World Service; Living Room R4 |
| Interests | Completed a Masters Degree (Distinction) in Modern and Contemporary Literature from Birkbeck College, University of London, where the ideas of cultural theorists like Henri Lefebvre and Raymond Williams and film-makers Patrick Keiller, Agnes Varda and Terence Davies have fed into my wish to turn Michael Rosen’s documentary play for voices into a poetic film, ‘Under the Cranes’. The running theme in all this work is how we experience the metropolis. Throughout, I've sought to counter the prevailing attitude to the inner city as a site of failure, ugliness and misdeed, through a socio-poetic of everyday life.. |
| Favorite Movies | "London" Patrick Keiller, "Distant Voices, Still Lives" Terence Davies, "The Gleaners and I" Agnes Varda |
| Favorite Books | "Pride and Prejudice" Jane Austen, "L'Assomoir" Emile Zola, "Jude the Obscure" Thomas Hardy, "Sons and Lovers" D H Lawrence, "The Master and Margarita" Mikhail Bulgakov, "Americana" Don DeLillo, "Light Years" James Salter, "County of London Plan" Forshaw and Abercrombie |