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GREAT MEADOW PRODUCTIONS was set up in 2004 by Kate Triggs and Robert Cooper with the aim of enriching the mix of high quality drama on British television. Stefan Kaday joined Great Meadow as a director in January 2008.

Our ambition is to capture the audience's imagination with exceptional drama made by the UK’s best film-making talent. We are particularly excited by our relationship with many of the country’s most original writers - writers willing to take on unusual, challenging and thought-provoking subjects.

Great Meadow's much anticipated film MARGARET THATCHER - THE LONG WALK TO FINCHLEY, was broadcast to great acclaim in June. Written by Tony Saint, directed by Niall MacCormick with exceptional performances from Andrea Riseborough, Rory Kinnear, Samuel West, Oliver Ford-Davis and Geoffrey Palmer, THE LONG WALK TO FINCHLEY was the centrepiece of BBC4’s week of programmes about Margaret Thatcher and gained the channel’s the third highest viewing figure to date. It is released on DVD by 2Entertain and distributed internationally by BBC Worldwide.

The company has many other remarkable projects in development, some pure fiction, others inspired by real events and people. Summer 2008 sees production of our second landmark film about Margaret Thatcher. Written by Rick Cottan, starring Lindsay Duncan and directed by James Kent, MARGARET is the story of Margaret Thatcher's last days of power. It will be shown on BBC2 and distributed by BBC Worldwide.

In 2007 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 previously produced MESSIAH - THE HARROWING starring Ken Stott and – 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.