How do we make entertaining and dramatic scripted and unscripted content, without anyone suffering in the process? Our expert panel delved into how to give the best duty of care on a production without compromising the content, while looking at past and present duty of care procedures, and what challenges lie ahead.
Cathy’s (Scholey) life is turned upside down when she spots Michael (Morgan) outside a supermarket. 20 years ago, Michael was convicted for the murder of Cathy’s brother. Now out of prison on early release, Michael has managed to start a family and build a successful career, to Cathy’s horror.
What does the job involve?
I guess the simple answer is that the clue is in the title: it’s about having a clear direction in which you want to take a project.
You’re the hand on the tiller, making sure all the departments and actors are going in the same direction.
I started in documentaries, so I’m trying to make things feel real and truthful. I’m not just trying to deliver the script, which is what a lot of people think a director’s job is. You have to breathe life into it so it doesn’t feel written, or even directed.
Chris Packham combines his background as a naturalist with the latest scientific discoveries to take us back 250 million years to Earth’s last climate change event, which wiped out 90% of species in the worst mass extinction the planet has ever seen.
Written by Sarah Phelps, the four-part crime drama will star Timothy Spall, Anne Reid, Éanna Hardwicke, Annabel Scholey and Sheila Hancock.
The series will explore the deaths of inspirational teacher Peter Farquhar (Timothy Spall) and his religious neighbour Ann Moore-Martin (Anne Reid) in the village of Maids Moreton, Buckinghamshire.
The trajectory of Farquhar’s life changed when he met younger charismatic student Ben Field (Éanna Hardwicke), which led to one of the most confusing and intricate criminal cases in recent history.
