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Tara was one of the first Asians to work in mainstream British television.Her first job was as a trainee script editor at the BBC in London on  Play of the Month, a strand of programmes based on …

…e then she has directed and written numerous documentary and feature films, for television and screen. She adapted and directed Macbeth on the Estate in 1997.

… producing, Losey trained initially as a film editor, film camera assistant and television cameraman in order to obtain practical experience of the creative side of the industry. He also became involv…

…oming Research Officer / Journal Editor for ACTT (Association of Cinematograph, Television and Allied Technicians). His skills in printing/design and writing helped.

Joined ATV writing continuity scripts. At TTT (Tyne Tees Television) he worked as an announcer whilst doing other programmes and shows for ABC and Thames Television. Was a regular presenter for Beauty…

…steward and union activist. She became shop steward of the film shop at Granada Television in the 70s and early eighties. As one of her members wrote: “It was as shop steward that she excelled, princi…

Howard Lanning, past-president of the British Cinema and Television Veterans, provides a mini masterclass for those who are interested in the development of sound editing both in film and television. …

…ducated at Gunnersbury School in London. historyproject.org.uk+1He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and won a scholarship. radiorewind.co.uk+1CareerStart in broadcasting & acting:…

…is an English bodybuilder, weightlifter and character actor in British film and television. Worldwide, he is best known for physically portraying Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy.Dave Pro…

Brief BiographyJenny Barraclough (director/producer)  - History Project Interview No.672Interviewer: Simon Rose, 2015 Jenny Barraclough was christened Jenny Izzard in 1937, in Burgess Hill, Sussex. The daughter of a surveyor, Jenny was educated at St. Brandon’s Girls School, Clevedon (a school originally set up for the daughters of the clergy) and at Millfield School, Somerset (a boarding school where the boys vastly outnumbered the girls).  She says that being outnumbered never bothered her and in her view, ‘if you don’t expect problems you don’t encounter them’. At Millfield she was taught English by Robert Bolt who was writing ‘A Man for all Seasons’ at the time. She says he had an immense influence on her and got her into St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, which made her passage into TV very easy.In 1963, at the age of 26 she joined ITN as their only female reporter, but was frustrated at being assigned to ‘women’s stories’. Jenny soon got into trouble with Ian Trethowan, the Deputy Editor, and had to find another job.‘World In Action’ had only been going for a year when Jenny joined in 1964 as a researcher. Produced by Granada it was a tough investigative series with high viewing figures, thanks to its slot immediately after ‘Coronation Street’. The series editor when she joined was Tim Hewat who called Jenny “You with the tits”. He was the kind of crude, rude and brilliant leader that, she says, doesn’t exist anymore. He was followed by Alex Valentine, another great journalist. Jenny got her chance to be a Director/Producer thanks to the Maysles Brothers. They had shot so much film on a ‘World in Action’ about ‘60s Britain, that Dick Fontaine, who had initiated the programme, couldn’t face it and Jenny took over, becoming the first woman producer on the series.  Among the films she directed were ‘The Man in the Suitcase’ and one on Mandy Rice-Davies, who gained notoriety because of the Profumo Affair. This was never transmitted, possibly Jenny says, because “it was too close to the bone”.Jenny’s next job was as Presenter and Producer on ‘This Week’ which was produced for Redifussion by Jeremy Isaacs. This series offered her more visual scope when directing but she didn’t like having to dress-up to present. After a short break to have the first of her four children Jenny joined ‘Man Alive’ at the BBC in 1968. The Series Editor was Desmond Wilcox who transformed TV documentaries. Previously, Jenny says, producers went to ‘experts’ for opinions but Desmond always wanted to hear Joe Public’s point of view. Desmond wanted Jenny to be one of the Reporters, who he regarded as the most important people on the series but she stuck to her guns and became one of the best known Documentary Producers at the BBC. Among the many notable films she made over nine-years were;‘Gale is dead’, ’Women in Prison,’  ‘Hyde Park’, ‘Alright we’ll do it Ourselves’, ‘The Black American Dream’When ‘Man Alive’ came to an end Jenny was free to make documentaries without reporters and did her own interviewing which she always enjoyed. In 1979 she made ‘Go Tell it to the Judge’, a remarkable semi- dramatised account of the Banabans of Ocean island whose home was destroyed by the British Empire and their struggle to gain recompense. She also documented freedom fighters such as Ghandi and Robert Mugabe. In the 1980s Jenny went through something of an ‘establishment period’, producing films on both The Queen and Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street.In 1986 she was made Head of BBC1 Documentaries and was urged to move even higher up the corporation ladder. But sitting behind a desk didn’t suit Jenny and in 1988 she set up Barraclough Carey Productions, with George Carey. It was one of the most successful independent TV production companies, later merging with Mentorn and becoming part of the TV Corporation Group.Now in her seventies, Jenny Barraclough is still busy making Global Health Programmes for BBC World and is a trustee of the Grierson Trust. Looking back on her life, she says that making TV documentaries is ‘the best job in the world’.