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A roller-coaster ride through documentary filmmaking with multi award-winning producer Dick Meadows and renowned former BBC presenter and reporter Mike Liggins.
The art of documentary filmmaking is as old as film itself. But why do some films fly and others flop and fail? Producer Dick Meadows draws aside the curtain to reveal some of the secrets from more than a quarter of a century of documentary filmmaking around the world for the BBC.
Twenty films are featured in Dick’s latest book, all seen through a lens where 20:20 Vision seems clearer and crisper than it did then.
“I sat up most of the night reading the book – absolutely brilliant” – Derek James, Eastern Daily Press.
Dick is joined by popular former BBC presenter and reporter Mike Liggins for stories of strong emotions, black humour, happiness and heartache as well as all the intricacies and anxieties of how programmes reach the screen.
They’ll also discuss how the digital revolution has upended the programme-making landscape with winners and losers. Along the way have the BBC’s founding principles as a public service broadcaster to inform, educate and entertain been fatally eroded? Has entertainment devoured its two siblings?
