Welcome to Paul's Blog

In an effort to consolidate my life, this blog may have postings on it covering my BBC TV stuff, my BongoReef Pictures stuff and my Oldingmanor Vineyard stuff. Enjoy.

Andrew Marr and Darwin’s Dangerous Idea

2009 February 21
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My latest film is coming very soon. It is presented by Andrew Marr and is the third in a new series called Darwin’s Dangerous Idea. We explore Darwin’s legacy, looking at his great insight into the web of life and the interconnections that exist in nature, but how such an insight has been so hard to accept and understand. There are three behind the clip videos on Youtube at

http://www.youtube.com/bongoreef

The film should be shown on Thursday 19th March, 2100hrs, BBC2 and BBC HD

Grandma’s Funeral on tele on sunday 8th

2009 February 7
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Our short film drama ‘Grandma’s Funeral’ will be shown on Sky channel 195 on sunday around 2200hrs as part of Propeller TV. Huzzah. PLUS our weird Welsh language film “Run for your Life” is screenign in Manchester on Sunday. It’s all go this weekend…

watch TIME online (in the UK) on I-player

2008 December 4
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00fyl5z/Horizon_Do_You_Know_What_Time_It_Is/

BBC2 tuesday 2nd Dec 9pm

2008 November 29
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Watch “do you know what time it is?” BBC2 2nd dec 9pm
And have a look behind the scenes
http://uk.youtube.com/user/bongoreef

Grandma’s Funeral in Hollywood

2008 November 24
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On Sunday 7th December at 4.30pm, Bongo Reef Picture’s comedic short “Grandma’s Funeral” will be showing in glorious HD at the Dolby Lab Theatre in sunny Burbank California as part of HDFest. This month it was Deptford, next month it is Hollywood. Huzzah

http://www.hdfest.com/hdfestlacomedy.html

What Time Is It? BBC 2nd Dec

2008 November 9
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My last film What time is it? presented by Prof Brian Cox will be shown on BBC2 Tuesday 9th Dec 2100hrs. Enjoy

back from argentina

2008 October 25
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back from argentina where we filmed on the beach where darwin found his fossils in october 1832. also had fun in the mountains being led by Horacio our gaucho

Andrew Marr Discovers Darwin

2008 September 19
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Just started a new doc on Darwin with Andrew Marr. Off to S. America to retread Darwin’s footsteps in Argentina. Huzzah. Should air next Feb as part of the year long Darwin extravaganza celebrating both his 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species.

What Time Is It?

2008 September 19
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My documentary on the nature of time with Prof Brian Cox due to air in October this year. Should know transmission date soon…

Brian Cox and the Nature of TIME - sneaky peaks

2008 August 31
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I have uploaded another set of sneaky peaks behind the scenes of our upcoming BBC Horizon film about the nature of time. Follow the link to the time page and then all the You Tube links are there. Enjoy