Some Recent Press
IMAGINE… TOM STOPPARD: A CHARMED LIFE
‘Imagine if all BBC arts programmes were this good.’ THE TELEGRAPH
‘Extraordinary to think Tom Stoppard is only now being granted an audience with Alan Yentob for Imagine — but it has been worth the wait.’ THE TIMES
‘A glorious selection of clips from his work’ MAIL ON SUNDAY
‘He is finally opening up about a family story hidden from the world — and from himself — for many years. It’s a moving tale …a deluxe, extended profile’ SUNDAY TIMES
THE ART THAT HITLER HATED
“Jill Nicholls lays out the case against the German art establishment like a QC conducting a lethal cross examination – calm, forensic and utterly damning.” THE TIMES
“… a two-part examination of one of the most potently disturbing episodes in the history of art, let alone culture.” THE ARTS DESK
“Riveting two parter examining one of the most extraordinary and explosive art stories of recent times.” DAILY MAIL
“Leaves one seething with incredulous rage.” FINANCIAL TIMES
FATWA: SALMAN’S STORY
WINNER, GRIERSON AWARD 2013
“… a hugely insightful and occasionally thrilling examination of one man’s struggle, with lashings of dark humour.” TIME OUT
“Excellent … captures not only the fraught global political climate of the times but the surreal quality of Rushdie’s twilight existence.” TELEGRAPH
VIVIAN MAIER – WHO TOOK NANNY’S PICTURES?
“A strange sense of purity was one of the film’s pleasures, of a talent that strengthened itself and did its work with complete indifference to the audience or the market. Touching, ambiguous and full of arresting images, Imagine’s film was a fine tribute to Maier.” TOM SUTCLIFFE, THE INDEPENDENT
“This was the returned arts strand on form, not sucking up to a celebrity icon but illuminating little-known genius.” ANDREW BILLEN, THE TIMES
JEFF KOONS – DIARY OF A SEDUCER
“This ‘Imagine…’ was, as it turned out, unexpectedly fascinating – I mean, Koons himself is both seductive and repulsive, dumb and clever. He embodies his own art …” FISUN GÜNER, THE ARTS DESK
“‘Imagine …’ has always had a better class of talking head than most — and here the cases both for and against were put with equal conviction and intelligence.” JAMES WALTON, THE SPECTATOR