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.

Olding and Cox currently filming in India

2009 July 18
Posted by polding
Am back on the road with Prof Cox. We are filming in India. Started out in Pune, drove down to Mahabaleshwar and will be heading up to Mumbai tomorrow, then out to Varanasi. Filming the Deccan Traps lava flood plains and filming the total solar eclipse, all for a brand new bbc tv series called ‘7 wonders of the solar system’. Have a peak at some videos at www.youtube.com/bongoreef

Prof Cox and Dr Olding soon back on the road

2009 June 8
Posted by polding
Prof Brian Cox and Dr Olding will soon be back on the road again. It has been almost a year since we set off to understand “what time is it?”. Now tackling “the 7 wonders of the solar system” with the first stop being India and the Deccan Traps. Behaind the scenes video blog coming soon.

Darwin’s Dangerous Idea

2009 March 21
Posted by polding

Latest film with Andrew Marr called Darwin’s Dangerous Idea - watch it on I-Player (in the UK) at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00jdcyd/Darwins_Dangerous_Idea_Life_and_Death/

Andrew Marr and Darwin’s Dangerous Idea

2009 February 21
Posted by polding
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
Posted by polding
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
Posted by polding
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00fyl5z/Horizon_Do_You_Know_What_Time_It_Is/

BBC2 tuesday 2nd Dec 9pm

2008 November 29
Posted by polding
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
Posted by polding
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
Posted by polding
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
Posted by polding
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