Lavinia Warner is a British television writer and producer. She created several successful TV series in the 1980s and 1990s, all of which featured women in the leading roles. These included the World War II female internee drama '' Tenko'' (1981-5) for the BBC, secret agent drama ''

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'' (1988–90) for

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(LWT) and the taxi-firm series ''

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'' (1992-3), again for the BBC. For the latter two series she also acted as producer. Warner is now the CEO of Warner Sisters, an independent production company.

Career

After studying history and psychology at university, Warner became a PA in the drama department at

(LWT), before moving on to

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as a researcher, mainly on '' This is Your Life''. After this she worked in the

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Features, Current Affairs and Drama departments as a freelance producer and director. After the launch of

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in 1982, she set up her own independent production company, Warner Sisters, which initially focussed on making television programmes. In 1983 she published "Women Beyond the Wire: A Story of Prisoners of the Japanese 1942-45" which she had co-written.

Television programmes

*1979: *''Women in Captivity'' *''A Life with Crime'' *''Private Lives'' *1981-84: '' Tenko'' *1984: ''GI Brides'' (won the Broadcasting Press Guild Award and was BAFTA nominated for Best Documentary) *1985: ''Tenko Reunion'' *1985: ''Lizzie - An Amazon Adventure'' (about adventuress Lizzie Hessel) *1987: ''

'' *1991: ''

Selling Hitler ''Selling Hitler'' is a 1991 ITV television comedy-drama mini-series about the Hitler Diaries hoax and was based on Robert Harris's 1986 book ''Selling Hitler: The Story of the Hitler Diaries''. Plot In 1981, Gerd Heidemann ( Jonathan Pryce) ...

'' (based on the book by Robert Harris) *1992: ''Rides'' *1995: ''Dangerous Lady'' *1995: ''

A Village Affair ''A Village Affair'' is a 1989 romance novel by English author Joanna Trollope. Published by Bloomsbury, the story concerns an unhappy young wife and mother, Alice Jordan, whose friendship with a young and independent woman, Clodagh Unwin, beco ...

'' *1996: ''The Bite'' *1998: ''The Jump'' *2001: '' Do or Die'' *2011: ''The Runaway''

Other activities

*One-time Vice-Chair of

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*One-time

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committee member *An original member of the 25% Campaign for increased Independent access to the BBC and ITV *Consultant to Hollywood director

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on his feature film '' Paradise Road''. Warner's book ''Women Beyond the Wire: A Story of Prisoners of the Japanese 1942-45'' (co-written with John Sandilands) was the prime source material for the film.

References

External links

Lavinia Warner
on Warner Sisters website * Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-tv-bio-stub