| Production Title: Flog It Company: BBC Line Manager: Nicholas Harding Programme Length: 50 minutes Season: 14 Genre: Daytime Sector: Broadcast Television Description :
Working during the filming of the episodes shot at the National Maritime Museum, Falmouth, I ran errands for the camera crews, directors and experts. I was also entrusted with handling valuable antiques and items that had been filmed for the show and selected to be taken to auction.
As a secondary task, I worked as a steward. The principle duty was to supervise the general public and ensure the queue to meet the experts did not become overcrowded and uncomfortable for the people waiting, as well as preventing any disturbances interfering with the recording of the show. |
| Production Title: The Trench Company: Collective Arts Ltd. Line Manager: Jason Squibb Programme Length: 60 minutes Genre: History Sector: Live Events Description :
An interactive live theatre event. 'The Trench' was a reconstruction of the a frontline trench on the Western Front to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the first day of the Battle of the Somme. The event was staged at the Levant Mine, Cornwall. Members of the public joined professional actors as soldiers in the reconstruction. What was particularly special about the event was the public took on the identities of miners who had left Levant to serve in the First World War. After the re-enactment, they learned the fate of the man they were playing, did they survive the war or not?
As a researcher, I was responsible for tracing the lives of hundreds of the Levant miners, looking through Cornish archives and military records to track their early lives in the village of St Just where many of the men lived, their work at the mine, and their military service. With the research I gathered, the theatre company could then build profiles for the men so after the members of the public had served their time in the boots of their miner, they would discover what their fate was. In many cases I charted the lives of men who lived in St Just their entire civilian life, before being killed in far off battlefields including The Somme, Mons, and even Iraq. |
