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Room At the Top

Maxine Peake plays Alice Aisgill, the tragic heroine of John Braine’s celebrated novel. This BAFTA award-winning 2-part drama is the story of a young man, striving for the top, who is forced to choose his status or his passion for an older woman.

Written by Amanda Coe, directed by Aisling Walsh and produced by Paul Frift.

Starring Maxine Peake, Matthew McNulty, Jenna Coleman and Kevin McNally. With Julia Ford, Kevin Doyle, Theo James, Zoe Telford, Kate O’Flynn, Peter Wight and Tom Brooke.

Executive Producers are Robert Cooper and Kate Triggs. Executive producers for the BBC are Bethan Jones and Jamie Laurenson.

The DOP is Lukas Strebel, Editor is Kristina Hetherington, Casting Director is Rachel Freck, Production Designer is Chris Truelove, Costume Designer is Amy Roberts and Make-Up & Hair Designer is Caroline Noble.

Margaret Thatcher, The Long Walk To Finchley

Andrea Riseborough plays the young Margaret Thatcher as you’ve never seen her before. A witty and wild fantasy about the root of the infamously rancorous relationship between Thatcher and Ted Heath

– the man destined to become Prime Minister and the man she was destined to supplant.

Starring – Andrea Riseborough, Rory Kinnear, Sam West, Geoffrey Palmer and Philip Jackson.

With Jonathan Aris, Lydia Leonard, Marcia Warren, Michael Cochrane, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Christian Rodska, James Laurenson, Geoffrey Whitehead, Oliver Ford Davies, Georgie Glen, Jeremy Child, Geoffrey Beevers and Elizabeth Bennett.

Written by Tony Saint, directed by Niall MacCormick, produced by Madonna Baptiste.

DOP Jan Jonaeus, editor Anthony Combes, casting director Rachel Freck, production designer Simon Beresford, costume designer Charlotte Holdich, hair and make-up designer Christine Allsopp, music Srdjan Kurpjel.

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The Trial Of Christine Keeler

Sophie Cookson, plays the young woman at the centre of the greatest political, sexual scandal of the Cold War – a scandal that took down a government.

Written by Amanda Coe, Directed by Andrea Harkin and Leanne Welham and produced by Rebecca Ferguson.

Starring Sophie Cookson as Christine Keeler, James Norton as Stephen Ward and Ellie Bamber as Mandy Rice-Davies. Also starring Ben Miles, Emilia Fox, Anthony Welsh, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Michael Moloney, Amanda Drew, Sam Troughton, Neil Morrissey and Paul Ritter.

Executive Producer is Kate Triggs. Executive Producers for Ecosse Films are Robert Bernstein and Douglas Rae.

Executive Producer for the BBC is Lucy Richer. Executive Producer Amanda Coe.

DOP is Joel Devlin, Editors are Danielle Palmer, Sarah Louise Bates, Edel McDonnell and Carmela Iandoli, Casting Directors are Amy Hubbard and Maxwell Grant, production Designer is Anna Rackard, Costume Designer is Pam Downe and Make-Up & Hair Designer is Inma Azorin.

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Margaret

Lindsay Duncan plays Margaret Thatcher in a drama that tells the story of the spectacular downfall of Britain’s most famous post-war head of state, destroyed by the men she had made powerful.

Written by Richard Cottan, directed by James Kent and produced by Sanne Wohlenberg.

Starring Lindsay Duncan and Ian McDiarmid as Denis Thatcher.

Also Roger Allam, James Fox, Robert Hardy, Kevin McNally, John Sessions, Philip Jackson, Michael Maloney, Dermot Crowley, Michael Cochrane, Nicholas le Prevost, Oliver Cotton and Roy Marsden.

Executive Producers are Robert Cooper and Kate Triggs. Executive Producer for the BBC is Bethan Jones.

DOP is David Odd, Editor is William Diver, Casting Director is Rachel Freck, Production Designer is David Roger, Costume Designer is James Keast and Make-Up & Hair Designer is Christine Walmesley-Cotham.

“Sensationally good… absolutely brilliant” – Simon Schama

Messiah – The Harrowing and The Rapture.

The fourth and fifth series of the terrifying 3-part crime thrillers for BBC & Paramount International.
Red Metcalfe’s analytical skills are stretched to the limit as

he tries to fathom the workings of the mind of a killer determined to create a living Hell for their victims.

Series 4: Created by Boris Starling, written by Terry Cafolla, directed by Paul Unwin, produced by Peter Norris

Starring – Ken Stott, Neil Dudgeon, Maxine Peake, Helen McCrory and Harriet Walter

Series 5: Created by Boris Starling, written by Oliver Brown, directed by Harry Bradbeer and produced by Richard Broke.

Starring Marc Warren, Daniel Ryan, Neil Dudgeon, Nina Sosanya, Marsha Thomason and Denise Gough.

When Harvey Met Bob

Set in London between the winter of 1984 and the summer of 1985, WHEN HARVEY MET BOB focuses on the extraordinary relationship between Bob Geldof and Harvey Goldsmith as they create and pull off the historic and life-saving Live Aid/Feed the World event.

Written by Joe Dunlop, directed by Nicholas Renton and produced by Catherine Magee.

Starring Domhnall Gleeson, Ian Hart and Antonia Campbell-Hughes. With Paul Rhys, Ingrid Craigie, Owen Roe and Andrew Whipp.

Director of photography Owen McPolin, editor Tony Cranstoun, production designer Fiona Daly, costume designer Allison Byrne.

Bradford Riots

Starring Sacha Dhawan, this drama follows the experiences of one family and a community before and after the riots in Bradford on 7th July 2001.In the wake of the riots 191 people were given custodial sentences totalling more than 510 years.

These were the harshest and most widespread sentences for public disorder since the Second World War.

Written and directed by Neil Biswas and produced by Nick Brown.

Starring Sacha Dhawan, Ace Bhatti, Victor Banerjee and Manjinder Virk.

The executive producers are Kate Triggs for Great Meadow and Mark Bentley and Nick Kent for Oxford Film and Television.

The DOP is Ulf Brantas, the Editor is Tony Cranstoun, the Casting Director is Michelle Smith, the Production Designer is Simon Beresford, the Costume Designer is Andrew Cox and the Hair & Make-Up Designer is Stella O’Farrell

Wodehouse In Exile

Tim Pigott-Smith is P.G. Wodehouse in this intimate film about how author P. G. Wodehouse came to face a charge of treason during the Second World War and how this quintessential Englishman, creator of Jeeves and Wooster, became an exile from his own country and never set foot on English soil again.

Starring Tim Pigott-Smith as P.G. Wodehouse and Zoe Wanamaker as Wodehouse’s wife, Ethel. Also starring Paul Ritter, Richard Dormer, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Ian McElhinney.

Written by Nigel Williams, directed by Tim Fywell and produced by Kate Triggs.

Executive Producer is Robert Cooper, DOP is Owen McPolin, Editor is Emma Oxley, Casting Director is Georgia Simpson, Production Designer is Tom McCullagh, Costume Designer is Maggie Donnelly and Make-Up & Hair Designer is Pamela Smyth.

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A Very British Scandal

Claire Foy stars in this drama that tells the story of the Duchess of Argyll who was publicly shamed in a high society divorce that gripped the nation.

Written by Sarah Phelps, directed by Anne Sewitsky and produced by Chris Ballantyne. Starring Claire Foy and Paul Bettany. Also starring Phoebe Nicholls, Julia Davis, Amanda Drew and Sophia Myles.

The executive producers are Kate Triggs, Pete Czernin, Graham Broadbent, Claire Foy, Sarah Phelps, Anne Sewitsky, Diarmuid McKeown and Dominic Treadwell-Collins. The executive producer for the BBC is Lucy Richer.

The co-executive producer is Delyth Scudamore. The DOP is Si Bell, the Editor is Dominic Strevens, the Casting Directors are Sarah Crowe and Xanthe Spencer-Davidson, the Production Designer is Christina Moore, the Costume Designer is Ian Fulcher and the Hair & Make-Up Designer is Catherine Scoble.

Platform 7

Jasmine Jobson stars as Lisa Evans in this psychological thriller from best-selling author Louise Doughty. Platform Seven at 4am: the railway station is deserted. The man crossing the covered walkway is confident he’s alone.

What the man doesn’t realise is that he has company. Lisa Evans knows what he has decided. She knows what he is about to do as she tries and fails to stop him walking to the platform edge. Two deaths on Platform Seven. Two fatalities in eighteen months – surely they’re connected? No one is more desperate to understand what connects them than Lisa Evans herself. After all, she was the first of the two to die.

Written by Paula Milne from the novel by Louise Doughty, directed by Geoffrey Sax and produced by Rosalie Carew. Starring Jasmine Jobson, Toby Regbo, Phil Davis, Yaamin Chowdhury, Reece Ritchie and Emily Carey.

The executive producer is Kate Triggs with Chris Carey, Lawrence Bowen, Paula Milne and Louise Doughty. The DOP is Laurent Bares, the Editor is Anthony Combes, the Casting Director is Andy Brierley, the Production Designer is Shelly Pond, the Costume Designer is Orla Smyth-Mill and the Make-Up & Hair Designer is Tori Robinson.

The producers

Kate Triggs

Kate is a BAFTA award-winning producer who has worked in drama development and production for over 20 years.

Her recent credits include: The Trial of Christine Keeler for the BBC which she initiated, developed and exec-produced, A Very British Scandal for Blueprint Pictures, the BBC and Amazon and Platform 7 for Dancing Ledge and ITV.
Kate has been co-director and founder of Great Meadow Productions since 2004. She was Exec producer of the returning thriller series, Messiah for the BBC and Paramount International, the BAFTA award-winning Room at the Top starring Maxine Peake, The Long Walk to Finchley, Margaret, When Harvey Met Bob and Wodehouse in Exile for the BBC and Bradford Riots for C4.
Previously, Kate worked as a Head of Development and Executive Producer in BBC drama.

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Robert Cooper

Robert began working in tv and film in the late 80s, when he produced Anthony Minghella’s first feature film, Truly Madly Deeply and became the BBC’s tv drama producer in Northern Ireland during The Troubles. He had previously..

……produced and directed plays for radio, starting in local radio in Liverpool where he directed Alan Bleasdale’s first play and radio series. He subsequently worked in BBC network radio in Manchester and Belfast. 

Later, as the BBC’s head of drama in Northern Ireland, he commissioned and produced films and series from and about the island of Ireland, by writers of many backgrounds – work which ranged from the darkly funny, to the movingly sad, to the romantically joyous, to the shockingly violent. 

As a producer, Robert remains constantly in awe of the chemistry of great writers with great actors, catalysed by the remarkable skills of imaginative filmmakers. He holds to the belief that drama has a rare, vicarious power to transport us into the lives of others.

Since 2004 Robert has worked with Kate Triggs as co-director of Great Meadow Productions, where he is glad to have contributed to series and films which have endeavoured to shed a fleeting light on human nature.

About Great Meadow

Great Meadow Productions was established by Kate Triggs and Robert Cooper in 2004, since when it has produced a wide range of tv drama from films and mini-series about real events  – Bradford Riots, Margaret, The Long Walk to Finchley, Wodehouse in Exile, When Harvey Met Bob, The Trial of Christine Keeler – to the BAFTA-winning Room At The Top (Best Mini-Series), and the hugely popular Messiah crime thriller series which played to audiences of over 9 million in the UK and to US and international audiences through our co-producer Paramount International.

It is currently developing a new, popular medical tv series and a series about a high-profile sexual abuse case

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