About Jenny

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    BBC trained freelancer, 12-year career producing tv and radio for BBC Open University including the Arts Foundation Course directing presenter led documentaries on a wide range of subjects. Currently freelance compliance producer for Radio 4Extra and consultant, writer and editor (text, audio, video, web) for various charities and learned institutions.  Expertise includes:

    Excellent knowledge of the tv and radio archive (especially British comedy and drama 1970s-1990s).

    Factual entertainment (including briefing presenters, people finding, getting experts to talk in plain English).

    Reversioning and edit producing and the copyright and compliance implications.

    Interested in short term consultancies and projects.


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    Employment History

    2006 Video interviews for corporate clients.

    TELEVISION PRODUCTION half- hour durations transmitted on BBC2 at 11.30 a.m. 7.30 pm and in Learning Zone:
    Open Forum magazine - studio discussion and lively location inserts. Very experienced at finding last minute guests and briefing presenters for Saturday morning 'soft' education magazine programmes at one point presented by Howard Stableford.

    Best programmes produced for a general audience was one on the history of the police and another on Victorian spiritualism. Both used a lively blend of music and reconstruction.

    OUPD Blue - a personal look at police history filmed in London, Paris and Rome

    Was Anybody There? - the quirky story of the Victorian medium Florence Cook and her obsessive admirer, the scientist William Crookes.

    A Kind of Magic and Stormy Weather - behind the scenes of modern Shakespeare with specially shot rehearsal footage and interviews with cast. Ian Talbot as Botom gives the view (literally) from the horses' mouth.

    Wallace in Wales - a journey through Welsh countryside for a biopic of the man who wasn't Darwin.

    MAJOR INITIATIVES
    1999/2000 Initiated co-productions with the Open University and BBC Radio 3 for their Shakespeare season. Collaborated with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and Radio 3 to ensure OU students received high-quality videos and CDs of performance and discussion.

    1991-1996 Raised standard and profile of radio output from 1991-1996 with student magazine progamme 'Open Forum', Art Works and VIPs, a Radio 4 series of biographies of Freud,Marx,Darwin,Yeats and Stopes.

    Favourable press quotes: VIPs radiottractively packaged and strongly flavoured with the wisdom of hindsight. The Stopes episode was exemplary." (Ind. on Sunday)

    Conjuring Shakespeare, BBC2 "An illuminating look at the pitfalls and pleasures of staging Shakespeare which features many of the country's leading actors and directors" (Telegraph)
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    Education

    1983-1986
    University of East Anglia
    Norwich
    BA (hons)English 2.1
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    Additional Information

    Industries

    • Online, 
    • Radio, 
    • Theatre, 
    • TV

    Programme Types

    • Arts, 
    • Biography, 
    • Comedy, 
    • Community Progs, 
    • Daytime, 
    • Documentary, 
    • Drama: Short Film, 
    • Dramatised Documentary, 
    • Education, 
    • Entertainment, 
    • Food, 
    • Historical Documentary, 
    • Magazine, 
    • Observational Documentary, 
    • Property, 
    • Sitcom, 
    • Studio Debate

    Specialisms

    • Anthropology, 
    • Art, 
    • Arts, 
    • Celebrity, 
    • Cinema/Film, 
    • Comedy, 
    • Cookery, 
    • Dance, 
    • Drama, 
    • Education, 
    • Environment, 
    • Food, 
    • Health, 
    • Heritage, 
    • History, 
    • Human Rights, 
    • Literature, 
    • Location Filming, 
    • Paranormal, 
    • Philosophy, 
    • Programme Development, 
    • Psychology, 
    • Radio, 
    • Theatre, 
    • Wine, 
    • Womens Issues, 
    • Writing

    Licenses

    • Basic Driving (PLG)
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