June 24th, 2010
Nick Ross has spoken to the Sun about his experiences of being a have-a-go hero, and of his findings in making Walk on By, the Above the Title documentary about street violence for BBC Radio 4.
In the newspaper feature, he talks of how his initial assumptions about intervening in a violent situation: that the more people around to help, the more likely someone would intervene; were wrong.
Nick speaks to psychologists at the cutting edge of research into bystander theory using revolutionary techniques.
Walk on By is broadcast on BBC Radio 4, on Monday 28th June at 20.30.
The full Sun article can be found here
May 26th, 2010
Christian O’Connell has been confirmed as the host of forthcoming Radio 2 world cup comedy panel show, Never Write Off the Germans.
His razor sharp, off-the-cuff wit will be needed to keep up with his ‘home’ team, Jon Richardson and Andy Parson. Each week the home team will have to see off an away team of comics in a series of different rounds testing the panel’s knowledge of the World Cup, as it unfolds.
Never Write Off the Germans begins at 10pm on Saturday 12th June 2010.
May 21st, 2010
Above the Title have been commissioned to produced 5 x 30′ comedy panel show, to coincide with the World Cup.
Never Write Off the Germans is the new Radio 2 topical comedy panel show that pokes a stick at the last few days of World Cup action, separating the truth from the lies, the Terrys from the Bridges and the Capellos from the Crapellos.
Each week during the World Cup the resident home team of English braveheart come face-to-face with an away team of comedians over a series of rounds that pulls the World Cup apart like no-one else.
Come and drown your inevitable sorrows as we laugh at the WAGs, the gaffes and the haircuts.
May 5th, 2010
Big Impressionist, Alistair McGowan joined the Alex Lowe Double Act last night for the pilot recording of the new Radio 2 comedy sketch show.
Alistair and Alex perform a series of sketches, characters and monolgues (and the odd impression). And we find out how Alex really got Alistair to take part in the show.
The pair were also joined by the multi-talented Charlotte Page who helped bring the sketches to life.
The Alex Lowe Double Act will be broadcast at 10.00pm on Saturday 15 May.
It was devised and produced by Ashley Blaker.
April 30th, 2010
The brand new BBC Radio 2 comedy show hosted by Alex Lowe (Barry from Watford on Steve Wright, Peter Serafinowicz Show, Phoenix Nights, The Late Edition, Clare In The Community) alongside a new double-act partner for the night, will be recorded next Tuesday, 5 May.
Expect characters, sketches and old-fashioned double-act banter between Alex and his new side-kick. The mystery guest for the first recording is top-secret but he is certain to make a Big Impression.
The Alex Lowe Double Act is produced by Ashley Blaker for BBC Radio 2.
April 7th, 2010
Clive Anderson is joined by Dinah Rose, Helen Mountfield and Aina Kahn to discuss the often controversial interface between English law and religious belief.
Disputes in which articles of faith clash with the law of the land have arisen over the carrying of sacred knives, employment law, adoption, gay rights and cremation.
One of the first acts of the new Supreme Court was to rule that one of Britain’s most successful faith schools had racially discriminated against a 12-year-old boy who was refused admission because the school did not recognise him as Jewish. When individuals choose to have their disputes resolved in religious courts, such as Sharia or Beth Din, what kind of oversight should the secular courts of the United Kingdom exercise?
This programme explores the extent to which secular law accommodates the “irrationality” of religious belief. Should it be more accommodating as the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams has suggested?
Unreliable Evidence is produced by Brian King for Above the Title.
March 5th, 2010
Frederic Raphael’s latest drama begins this week on Radio 4. Final Demands is the third part of a story following a group of 1950s Cambridge friends and their progress through the latter part of the last Century, and the beginning of the new millennium.
The 6-part series is a continuation of the radio adaptation of 1970’s television drama, The Glittering Prizes. The same central characters, Adam and Barbara, played by Tom Conti and Barbara Kellerman, have appeared throughout.
The series has already received critical acclaim. According to the Radio Times, Frederic Raphael’s script “sparkles”, with characters whom, “utter witticisms that we lesser mortals wouldn’t think of until 3 minutes later”. Whilst Gillian Reynolds wishes, “let it rain, let it snow, let gales rattle the windows [so that we can] Stay at home with Frederic Raphael’s continuation of his chronicle…”
It will be broadcast Thursdays and Fridays at 14.15 on BBC Radio 4.
February 18th, 2010
Above The Title (ATT) announces that it has been acquired by UBC Media Group Plc. www.ubcmedia.com
Simon Clegg, chief executive commented, “This is a great move for ATT and its clients. The company’s 12+ year journey as an independent producer of award-winning content for key partners including the BBC and other content publishers enters a new phase this week as we become part of UBC Media Group. We’re joining sister content production companies Unique Broadcasting, Smooth Operations and Lynx Content. Our creative teams will continue to operate autonomously, from our existing premises, and we will be able to take advantage of synergies and opportunities arising from enhanced business infrastructure and economies of scale. This will enable us to bring even better programming to our clients at compelling value.”
ATT will continue to be led by Simon Clegg, chief executive, and Adam Bromley, creative director, who will work with the same creative team. Contact details remain unchanged.
Further new business wins are being announced during February and March.
January 27th, 2010
Comic duo Alistair McGowan and Stephan Mangan join the cast this week to record their parts in ATT’s Radio 4 drama, Final Demands.
They join Tom Conti and Barbara Kellermann in one episode each of the 6 part series chronicling English social life and public and private values in the last decade of the brutal 20th century.
It’s now the 1990s, and for all of those friends from the fifties life has moved on. Frederic Raphael once again brings his all wit and invention and insight to his diverse, vivid, and utterly convincing group of characters.
Final Demands comes to BBC Radio 4 in March 2010.
January 22nd, 2010
Oscar-winning writer Frederic Raphael’s TV drama series The Glittering Prizes was the great success of the late seventies. Starring Tom Conti, it followed the fortunes of a group of undergraduates in the early 1950s, watching how their hopes and ambitions were fulfilled – or not in the next twenty-five years.
After the success of the Radio 4 adaptation, and its Radio 4 sequel Fame and Fortune, Final Demands continues the story - chronicling English social life and public and private values in the last decade of the brutal 20th century.
It’s now the 1990s, and for all of those friends from the fifties life has moved on. Frederic Raphael once again brings his all wit and invention and insight to his diverse, vivid, and utterly convincing group of characters.
The series is produced by Jo Wheeler and directed by Pete Atkin.
Final Demands comes to BBC Radio 4 in 2010.
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