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My most recent films are: Losing It: Griff Rhys Jones on Anger, two one hour films for BBC2; J.K. Rowling: A Year in the Life, an exclusive for ITV; Powerhouses, a ninety minute special for Channel 4 about the relationship between architecture and power; Ten Days that Made the Queen, another big ninety minute film for Channel 4, and Betjeman and Me, a film for BBC 2 with Griff Rhys Jones.
My best known films are probably My Father, which is pretty self-explanatory: a last interview with Lord Runcie, the former Archbishop of Canterbury; Miss Pym’s Day Out a drama documentary with Patricia Routledge which won the Royal Television Society Award for Best Arts Programme and was nominated for a BAFTA; and Heaven, which I also presented.
Television work also includes drama documentaries on Darwin’s Daughter, The Great Fire of London, and The British Weekend; other films have featured the writers and presenters Robert Hughes, Andrew Motion, Simon Schama, David Starkey, Alain de Botton and Griff Rhys-Jones.
The aim is to make intelligent, high quality and moving television about big ideas – art, literature, history, religion, music, and love.
I prefer not to make, mainly because I’d be rubbish, any of the following: reality programmes, make-over shows, ‘sneery’ tv, ‘car crash tv’, or anything that features property, gardening, or holiday homes.
I realise this limits employment opportunities but I really feel television should be about something. Otherwise what’s the point?