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Great Meadow's Room At The Top wins BAFTA



Great Meadow’s two-part dramatisation of Room At The Top – John Braine’s iconic novel about 1940’s Britain – which screened on BBC4 in September 2012, won the best Mini Series award in this year's BAFTAs. It stars Matthew McNulty, Maxine Peake and Jenna Louise Coleman, is directed by Aisling Walsh, screenplay by Amanda Coe, produced by Paul Frift, executive producers Kate Triggs and Robert Cooper
Watch the award at BAFTA on You Tube

Wodehouse In Exile screens on BBC4

Great Meadow’s production of Nigel William’s screenplay “Wodehouse In Exile" about Wodehouse's ill-fated wartime broadcasts from Germany, was broadcast on BBC4 on Monday March 25th to critical acclaim. It starred Tim Pigott-Smith in the title role and Zoe Wanamaker as his wife Ethel with Paul Ritter, Flora Montgomery, Richard Dormer, Conor Mullen, Simon Coury, Niall Cusack, Ian McElhinney and Julian Rhind-Tutt. It was directed by Tim Fywell and produced by Kate Triggs.

"One of the best documentary dramas I have seen in years" Clive James - The Telegraph

"@billicritic: Tim Pigott-Smith brilliant last night as PG Wodehouse. A genuine innocent abroad. Nigel Williams's BBC4 drama recalled TV's golden age." - Michael Billington on Twitter

Great Meadow's critically acclaimed film about Margaret Thatcher's downfall shown again

Lindsay Duncan’s extraordinary performance as Margaret Thatcher during her humiliating downfall as a leader was shown again on BBC4 on Bank Holiday Sunday 5th May at 9pm. Margaret, written by Rick Cottan and directed by James Kent, was first broadcast on BBC2 in 2010 to an audience of 2.5 million. It portrays the "Iron Lady" desperately clinging to power whilst one by one, her once loyal cabinet turn their backs on her. The stellar cast includes Ian McDiarmid as Denis Thatcher, James Fox as Charles Powell, Robert Hardy as Willie Whitelaw, Oliver Cotton as Michael Heseltine, Kevin McNally as Kenneth Clarke, Michael Maloney as John Major, Roy Marsden as Norman Tebbit and Nicholas Le Prevost as Douglas Hurd.

“sensationally good... absolutely brilliant“ – Simon Schama

When Harvey Met Bob raises £40,000 for Band Aid charity

Great Meadow's BBC2 film When Harvey Met Bob - Joe Dunlop's moving drama about the staging of Live Aid - has raised over £40,000 from foreign sales for The Band Aid Trust, helping to fight poverty and famine in East Africa.


Read Robert Cooper’s Broadcast article on the making of Wodehouse In Exile

Future Development

In addition to its award-winning productions Great Meadow is, in collaboration with major broadcasters, currently working with many of the UK’s most exciting film and tv writers – including actively developing a new generation of emerging young British dramatists.

Andrea Riseborough plays the young Margaret Thatcher in Great Meadow's The Long Walk To Finchley

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