• Sergei Polunin and Lauren Cuthbertson rehearse ‘Swan Lake’ at the Royal Ballet

      The New Fontayne & Nuryev? Lauren Cuthbertson and Sergei Polunin, the youngest ever male principal at the Royal Ballet, lit up 600 cinema screens around the world on December 17th, 2011 in a live relay from Covent Garden, London. Sergei and Lauren are blessed with copious quantities of natural ability. But to see them …

  • ‘God’s Composer’

    It’s not often you are given the opportunity to cut a programme so beautiful, so moving, so fascinating. But here’s one such I was.

  • ‘Derren Brown: The Experiments – Guilt Trip’

    …the most ambitious film the Derren Brown team, led by the inimitable Simon Dinsell, have ever attempted.

  • Script writing: getting started

    Telling a great story can feel a bit like fighting the fearsome Greek mythical creature, the Lernaean Hydra. Like Heracles, you may need help to find a compelling solution. The Lernaean Hydra was a water beast possessing so many heads that it is said vase painters couldn’t fit them all on. It’s breath was so poisonous that …