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BBC Telephone Directory 1995/6

BBC Telephone directory 1995:6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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This is a page from the BBC Telephone Directory of 1995/6. It promotes the Resources Department of the Midlands and East Region. This would have been after the vertical split imposed by John Birt, when Resources had to become more commercial and take paying work from Independent Production Companies. The page is lists prominent productions serviced by Pebble Mill’s Resources Department, which included design, graphics, editing, crewing – both radio and television.

Thanks to Peter Poole for making this page available.

Pete Postlethwaite in ‘Martin Chuzzlewit’

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John Greening who was the First Assistant Director on this mammoth Dickens adaptation comments that:

‘Pete was a force of nature – along with Keith Allen and Paul Schofield. Generous to a fault, he even offered to perform for free in my BBC drama directors course project. What a gent. I also got very drunk at his house once with designer Rob Hinds and production manager Alastair Duncan – but that’s another story…’

Pete Postlethwaite in Martin Chuzzlewit

Pete Postlethwaite – photos by Willoughby Gullachsen

Photos by Willoughby Gullachsen, no reproductions without permission.

Since Pete Postlethwaite’s death was announced yesterday, I thought it would be fitting to post up a photo of him from a Pebble Mill drama production.  Pete Postlewthaite acted in several Pebble Mill productions including Martin Chuzzlewit, and the drama shown here.

Pete Postlethwaite was born in 1946 and died aged 64, after a long battle with cancer.

Unfortunately I don’t know which drama this photos is from – so if you can identify it, I’d be very grateful.  It looks to date from around the late 1980s.

Thanks

Vanessa

Pete Postlethwaite and others

Martin Chuzzlewit – photos from Jo Mainwaring

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Martin Chuzzlewit was a 6 part dramatisation of the Charles Dickens novel, adapted by author David Lodge.  It was transmitted in 1994 on BBC 1.  Produced by Chris Parr and Directed by Pedr James, it starred Paul Scofield, Tom Wilkinson, Emma Chambers, Philip Franks, Keith Allen, Pete Postlethwaite, Julia Sawahla and Lynda Bellingham.  The story concentrates on the wealthy Chuzzlewit brothers and their contrasting destinies.