Starring Martin Freeman and Imelda Staunton, A Confession, is based on the true story of Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher, who breached police protocol to catch a killer, costing him his career.
As the writer of dramas including Mrs Biggs, Little Boy Blue and Cilla, Jeff will also discuss highlights from his award-winning career. Filled with clips and stories, this promises to be an evening not to be missed.
Written by Jeff Pope (A Confession), the timely state-of-the-world five-part series poses the questions: what makes people fear and hate those who are different from themselves, and can someone’s view of the world be fundamentally changed?
Stephen Graham (Boiling Point) stars as activist Matthew Collins, a reformed Neo-Nazi now working as a journalist for the anti-racist organisation, Hope not Hate. Forced to flee the UK and go into hiding when he became a mole within the BNP during the 1990s, Collins returns to Britain to make a new life for himself.
Stephen Merchant, Jaime Winstone, Jeff Pope and Neil McKay discuss new factual series Four Lives.
Writers Jeff Pope and Neil McKay, the duo behind The Moorside and Appropriate Adult, will shed new light on the story by shifting the perspective to the friends and families of the four young men who were killed by Port.
The police investigation into the deaths of Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor was widely condemned, and forced their relatives to take the case into their own hands.
How do you craft a winning narrative for your wildlife film? Award-winning screenwriter Jeff Pope - the man behind Philomena, A Confession, Stan and Ollie and Isolation Stories - shares lessons and top tips on what he's learned from scripting drama.
Speakers: Lynn Barlow & Jeff Pope
You could be forgiven for thinking that Jeff Pope was obsessed by the macabre. Why else would he be drawn to such odious topics as the Moors murders, serial killer Fred West or Britain’s last hangman, Albert Pierrepoint?
He puts it like this: “If drama is about conflict, which it is, you’re looking for the extremes of conflict. Those areas are love, fate and, I would argue, crime.
“I am not a depressive person or ghoulish but it’s the old journalist in me: there’s a good story in it.”
Writer Jeff Pope looks back at his career in television drama at the RTS event 'In Conversation with Jeff Pope', chaired by journalist Caroline Frost.
Pope looks back at his hit series Fools Gold: The Story of the Brink’s Mat Robbery, Cilla and Little Boy Blue, as well as his upcoming series A Confession, starring Martin Freeman.
'In Conversation with Jeff Pope' was held at King’s Place in central London on 29 August.
Writer Jeff Pope looks back at his career in television drama at the RTS event 'In conversation with Jeff Pope', chaired by journalist Caroline Frost.
Pope looks back at his hit series Fools Gold: The Story of the Brink’s Mat Robbery, Cilla and Little Boy Blue, as well as his upcoming series A Confession, starring Martin Freeman.
“In conversation with Jeff Pope” was held at King’s Place in central London on 29 August.
Speaking to the RTS he said: “It meant that people came to me with their ideas. Steve Coogan came to me with Philomena (Coogan and Pope’s screenplay was nominated for an Oscar and won best screenplay at the Venice Film Festival).
“Success gets you meetings, but it still doesn’t get something past the finishing line if it’s not good enough…It also means you can be more ambitious and more expansive.”
Although he assures me he’s “too old to play Tim [again]”, you can see the similarities he shares with his famous character.
He is affable and self-deprecating, joking that he thinks the real Steve Fulcher, who he plays in upcoming ITV drama A Confession, was happy for him to play him - although might have wished for “someone taller, maybe?”
With more than 80 film and TV credits to his name, Freeman has starred in everything from cult classic TV series to huge blockbuster franchises.
