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When Boris Met Dave
''When Boris Met Dave'' is a docudrama of 2009 which investigates the shared past of David Cameron and Boris Johnson who, at the time of broadcast, were two of Britain's most influential Conservative Party politicians – Cameron as Conservative leader and Johnson as Mayor of London. Johnson went on to become the Conservative leader as well; with Cameron serving as Prime Minister from 2010 to 2016 and Johnson from 2019 to 2022. The film features interviews with people who knew Cameron and Johnson both at Eton College and Oxford, where they were both members of the Bullingdon Club. The programme also looks at Johnson's campaign to become president of the Oxford Union and dramatises some of the other key events of their student days. The film was first broadcast on More4 on 7 October 2009, and was later repeated on Channel 4. Cast *Anthony Head Anthony Stewart Head (born 20 February 1954) is an English actor and singer. Primarily a performer in musical theatre, he rose to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Docudrama
Docudrama (or documentary drama) is a genre of television and film, which features dramatized re-enactments of actual events. It is described as a hybrid of documentary and drama and "a fact-based representation of real event". Docudramas typically strive to adhere to known historical facts, while allowing some degree of dramatic license in peripheral details, such as when there are gaps in the historical record. Dialogue may, or may not, include the actual words of real-life people, as recorded in historical documents. Docudrama producers sometimes choose to film their reconstructed events in the actual locations in which the historical events occurred. A docudrama, in which historical fidelity is the keynote, is generally distinguished from a film merely " based on true events", a term which implies a greater degree of dramatic license; and from the concept of "historical drama", a broader category which may also encompass entirely fictionalized action taking place in histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Cockerell
Michael Roger Lewis Cockerell (born 26 August 1940) is a British broadcaster and journalist. He is the BBC's most established political documentary maker, with a long, Emmy award-winning career of political programmes spanning television and radio. Early life His father was Professor Hugh Anthony Lewis Cockerell, OBE, Secretary General of the Chartered Insurance Institute, a professor who was an expert on insurance law, and his mother, Fanny, was an author and playwright, and daughter of Dr David Salomon Jochelman, a prominent leader of the British Jewish community. He was educated at Kilburn Grammar School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics ( BA 1962, MA 1968). Daily Telegraph interview 2 December 2007 Retri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 In British Politics
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2009 Films
The year 2009 saw the release of many films. Seven made the top 50 list of highest-grossing films. Also in 2009, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that as of that year, their Best Picture category would consist of ten nominees, rather than five (the first time since the 1943 awards). Evaluation of the year Film critic Philip French of ''The Guardian'' said that 2009 "began with the usual flurry of serious major movies given late December screenings in Los Angeles to qualify for the Oscars. They're now forgotten or vaguely regarded as semi-classics: ''The Reader'', '' Che'', ''Slumdog Millionaire'', '' Frost/Nixon'', '' Revolutionary Road'', ''The Wrestler'', ''Gran Torino'', '' The Curious Case of Benjamin Button''. It soon became apparent that horror movies would be the dominant genre once again, with vampires the pre-eminent sub-species, the most profitable inevitably being '' New Moon'', the latest in Stephenie Meyer's ''Twilight'' saga, the best the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Television Films
9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the Brahmi numerals, beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and Gupta started curving the bottom vertical line coming up with a -look-alike. The Nagari continued the bottom stroke to make a circle and enclose the 3-look-alike, in much the same way that the sign @ encircles a lowercase ''a''. As time went on, the enclosing circle became bigger and its line continued beyond the circle downwards, as the 3-look-alike became smaller. Soon, all that was left of the 3-look-alike was a squiggle. The Arabs simply connected that squiggle to the downward stroke at the middle and subsequent European change was purely cosmetic. While the shape of the glyph for the digit 9 has an Ascender (typography), ascender in most modern typefaces, in typefaces with text figures the character usually has a desc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Channel 4 Original Programming
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British Television Documentaries
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Channel4
Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network operated by the state-owned enterprise, state-owned Channel Four Television Corporation. It began its transmission on 2 November 1982 and was established to provide a fourth television service in the United Kingdom. At the time, the only other channels were the television licence, licence-funded BBC One and BBC Two, and a single commercial broadcasting network ITV (TV network), ITV. The network's headquarters are based in London and Leeds, with creative hubs in Glasgow and Bristol. It is publicly owned and advertising-funded; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), the station is now owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation, a public corporation of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, which was established in 1990 and came into operation in 1993. Until 2010, Channel 4 did not broadcast in Wales, but many of its programmes were re-broadcast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miliband Of Brothers
''Miliband of Brothers'' is a 2010 satirical docu-drama following the lives and careers of British politicians David Miliband and younger brother Ed, who at the time were both contesting the 2010 Labour leadership contest. Written by David Quantick, the programme was first shown on More4.David Quantick,Miliband of Brothers: David Quantick on David and Ed Miliband and the decline of British TV satire, ''The Daily Telegraph'', 24 September 2010 It was produced by the same production team as the similar 2009 documentary '' When Boris Met Dave''.Miliband of Brothers' at Channel4.com, Retrieved 26 September 2010. The documentary charted the Miliband brothers' paths into politics interspersed with interviews from Tony Benn, Neil Kinnock and Oona King amongst friends and teachers, looking into how they both ended up with jobs in the cabinets of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. To add to the familial similarity, David Miliband was played by Henry Lloyd-Hughes and Ed by his brother Ben Ll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Fraser
Nick Fraser (born 21 January 1948) is a British documentary producer and journalist. Education Fraser was educated at Eton College, and graduated from Exeter College, Oxford in 1969. BBC and ''Storyville'' Fraser spent seventeen years at the BBC, where he created and ran the international documentary strand '' Storyville''. In 2016 he left the BBC to launch the documentary streaming platform Docsville. Books and The Why Foundation Fraser is also a founder and executive producer of the Danish nonprofit organisation The Why Foundation, and has authored several non-fiction Nonfiction, or non-fiction, is any document or media content that attempts, in good faith, to provide information (and sometimes opinions) grounded only in facts and real life, rather than in imagination. Nonfiction is often associated with be ... books. Honors and awards Fraser received the 2017 BAFTA Special Award for his work in the field of documentary. Bibliography * 2019 ''Say What Happen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Gimson
Andrew Gimson (born 1958) is a British political journalist. Gimson formerly wrote the parliamentary sketch for ''The Daily Telegraph'' and has written a novel entitled ''The Desired Effect'', as well as books about Boris Johnson, British monarchs and British Prime Ministers. In November 2011 he was succeeded as sketch writer on ''The Daily Telegraph'' by Michael Deacon. Gimson is a former pupil of Uppingham School where he attended West Bank House. He briefly worked in the Conservative Research Department in 1983 before starting his journalism career at ''The Spectator'', commentating on public affairs. He is married to Sally Gimson (formerly Sally Malcolm-Smith), who stood in the South Leicestershire constituency as an unsuccessful candidate for the Labour Party in the May 2010 general election. Books *''The Desired Effect'' (1991) *'' Boris: The Rise of Boris Johnson'' (2006) * ''Gimson's Kings and Queens: Brief Lives of the Forty Monarchs since 1066'' (2015) *''Gimson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Elliott (journalist)
Francis Elliott is a British journalist. He was political editor of ''The Times'' from 2013 to 2021. Elliott read politics, philosophy and economics (PPE) at the University of Oxford. He worked for the ''New Statesman'' before stepping back to regional papers in Carlisle and Edinburgh. He was named Westminster editor for ''Scotland on Sunday'' in 1999, before spending two years at ''The Sunday Telegraph'', including as deputy political editor. After joining the ''Independent on Sunday'' politics team in 2003, Elliott moved to the position of Whitehall editor. In 2005 he was shortlisted by ''What the Papers Say'' for its 'Scoop of the Year' award in recognition of his work on Labour Party politician David Blunkett's business interests. Elliott joined ''The Times'' as chief political correspondent in May 2007. As deputy political editor of the paper in 2010, ''Press Gazette'' named him the fifteenth highest-rated political reporter working in the UK. In September 2010, Elliott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
