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GREAT MEADOW PRODUCTIONS was set-up in 2004 by Kate Triggs and Robert Cooper with the aim of enriching British tv and film drama. Since then, our work has captured the audience's imagination with exceptional, thought-provoking, contemporary drama made by the UK’s best film-making talent.

Our most recent projects are two controversial tv films about Margaret Thatcher.

The first, MARGARET THATCHER - THE LONG WALK TO FINCHLEY, was broadcast to great acclaim in 2008 on BBC4 and again in 2009 on BBC2. Written by Tony Saint, directed by Niall MacCormick, with exceptional performances from Andrea Riseborough, Rory Kinnear, Samuel West, Oliver Ford-Davis, Geoffrey Palmer and many others, THE LONG WALK TO FINCHLEY gained BBC4's third highest viewing figure ever, won three Broadcasting Press Guild Awards and was nominated for five BAFTAs, two Broadcast Awards, and an RTS Award for best single drama.

The second film - MARGARET - is a major, two-hour tv film which explored the strengths and tragic flaws of Margaret Thatcher's character that led to her closest political allies turning on her, precipitating her final, humiliating downfall. It showed us a Margaret Thatcher - the woman who changed our lives more than any other in British history - that has never been seen on screen before. Written by Rick Cottan, directed by James Kent and starring Lindsay Duncan, Ian McDiarmid, James Fox, Robert Hardy, Kevin McNally, Michael Maloney and forty other distinguished British actors, MARGARET was broadcast on BBC2 in February 2009 when it gained an audience of 2.6m - putting it amongst the channel's top five dramas of year.

Previously Great Meadow created a new departure for its BBC1 hit franchise, MESSIAH. Starring Marc Warren, Danny Ryan and Marsha Thomason. MESSIAH - THE RAPTURE was broadcast to audiences of nearly 6m on BBC1 in January 2008.

Great Meadow also produced - in collaboration with Oxford Films - the award-winning Channel 4 film BRADFORD RIOTS, written and directed by Neil Biswas, which examined the fate of a young British Asian who found himself facing a sentence of the utmost severity after the 2001 riots in Bradford.

The company has many other remarkable projects in development, some fiction, some inspired by real events and people. We are particularly proud and excited by our creative relationships with many of the country’s most original writers - writers willing to take on unusual and challenging subjects.