Quirke's Cast And Crew

Series

Title

First
Broadcast

Repeated

Comments

Camera Operator And Grip

20170703

20170906 (R4)

In this third episode Antonia heads to Dudley and encounters a gang of smooth operators on the set of the latest series of Peaky Blinders and puts some key roles into the frame. She journeys through the latest Star Wars films with an industry-renowned grip that also discusses his close-up work on Daniel Craig's most iconic Bond moments, and catches a team excitedly preparing camera equipment for the final series of Game of Thrones.

Throughout, Antonia watches the cast and crews in action, grabbing them in the moments between filming and creating, revealing their various and sometimes entirely surprising contribution to productions, exploring the latest equipment and challenges. Along the way she gathers fascinating and often very moving stories of life behind the scenes. These aren't just the tales of the great actors of our times, but of the people who made those actors and actresses great, content instead to be the stars behind the camera.

Exploring the key crew members on film and drama series defining modern entertainment.

Antonia Quirke speaks to key crew members working on film and drama series.

Gaffer And Best Boy

20170619

20170904 (R4)

Film presenter Antonia Quirke speaks to key crew members working on the film and drama series that are defining modern entertainment.

In this first episode Antonia wades through mud in Yorkshire on the stunning period set of Gunpowder a new star-studded, forthcoming BBC television drama starring Kit Harington as she links up with the dedicated crew responsible for all things electrical whatever the weather.

She also meets with the renowned gaffer John 'Biggles' Higgins whose film credits include Gravity and Skyfall, and travels to Warner Brothers Studios in Watford to join a Best Boy to discuss his role as he works on the latest JJ Abrams production.

Throughout, Antonia watches the cast and crews in action, grabbing them in the moments between filming, revealing their various and sometimes entirely surprising contribution to productions, exploring the latest equipment and challenges. Along the way she gathers fascinating and often very moving stories of life behind the scenes. These aren't just the tales of the great actors of our times, but of the people who made those actors and actresses great, content instead to be the stars behind the camera.

Exploring the key crew members on film and drama series defining modern entertainment.

Antonia Quirke speaks to key crew members working on film and drama series.

Stuntwoman

20170710

20170907 (R4)

Film presenter Antonia Quirke speaks to key crew members working on the film and drama series that are defining modern entertainment.

In this episode Antonia meets a trio of fearless women that perform life-threatening stunts for the camera, as they break through windows, run through fires, hang from planes, crash cars and jump off buildings often in bikinis and tight clothing.

On three closed and top-secret film sets Antonia observes a dangerous stunt being performed, she meets one co-ordinator as she choreographs a traumatic battle scene and watches another stuntwoman, who doubled for Kate Winslet on Titanic, supervise a dramatic fall.

Determined and skilled, the women in this programme explain the skills both physical and mental required and disclose the social obstacles they have had to overcome and we discover their work is very much at the heart of what makes a film dramatic.

Exploring the key crew members on film and drama series defining modern entertainment.

Antonia Quirke speaks to key crew members working on film and drama series.

Visual Effects

20170626

20170905 (R4)

Film critic Antonia Quirke speaks to key crew members working on the film and drama series that are defining modern entertainment

In this second episode Antonia makes a royal visit to the set of The Crown, the esteemed Netflix biographical drama television series to discover how thirty flag waving people are transformed into thirty thousand. She also visits an Oscar-winning UK visual effects team as they put the finishing touches to the upcoming American science fiction thriller film Annihilation, starring Natalie Portman, and speaks with the film's Director Alex Garland.

Exploring the marriage of visual effects and performance she also meets with actor-director Andy Serkis to discuss the use of motion capture technology he pioneered as a performer on the Lord of the Rings films and King Kong.

Exploring the key crew members on film and drama series defining modern entertainment.

Antonia Quirke speaks to key crew members working on film and drama series.

Animal Wranglers

20190219

20190223 (R4)

Never work with children o animals, goes the famous advice for anyone working on film or TV production - and according to director, on the set of the forthcoming ITV drama Deep Water', children are by far the easier of the two. A good wrangler is indispensable on the set of any production involving animals, preventing hours being wasted while errant beasts are brought to heel.

In the third part of the series, Antonia Quirke meets expert wranglers including Bozena Bienkowska, who describes the impact of bringing her wolf onto set, as well as the lengths wranglers must go to in order to avoid being seen on screen; she describe hiding up chimneys, being buried in pits and lying in the boots of cars in order to stay close to her animals as they take their turn in the spotlight.

Antonia also visits The Devil's Horsemen'. a company specialising in providing horses in some of the biggest films and TV shows in the world, including Games of Thrones, Wonder Woman and the recent Mary Queen of Scots.

She also speaks with Brady Jandreau, a cowboy and horse trainer who went from being a screen wrangler to a leading actor in the film The Rider' following a horrific accident he suffered while competing in a rodeo.

Antonia Quirke meets some of the wranglers looking after animals on the big screen.

Antonia Quirke speaks to key crew members working on film and drama series.

Foley Artists

20190226

20190302 (R4)

If a foley artist does their job well, you'll never notice them while you're watching a movie. They are the people who add the sound of everything from footsteps and rattling jewellery to jail cells being slammed shut and guns being loaded once the filming's over. And it's not just viewers who don't realise that such sounds are in fact created later on, as Antonia Quirke discovers in this final part of Cast and Crew' - sometimes even actors don't know that the footsteps they hear in the final movie aren't their own. She visits ace foley artist Ruth Sullivan in a dedicated foley studio and watches on as Ruth records the sounds of a football match using a boxing glove and some mint leaves. We hear from one of the masters of foley - Walter Murch - about his work on The Godfather, and Antonia meets Barnaby Smyth, who recently donned his ballet shoes to create the sounds for the forthcoming biopic about Rudolf Nureyev, The White Crow'.

Producer Geoff Bird

Antonia Quirke celebrates the unsung heroes of cinematic sound - foley artists.

Antonia Quirke speaks to key crew members working on film and drama series.

Location Managers

20190205

20190209 (R4)

Antonia Quirke begins the new series with a look at the role of the location manager in film and television production.

Quirke's Cast and Crew' examines the contribution made by some of the unsung heroes within film and television - later in the series Antonia will meet animal wranglers, foley artists and composers, and in this first episode Antonia hears all about the vital role of the location manager. Often among the very first people employed on a production, the locations they come up have a major impact on the look and feel of a show or film. The programme begins on the set of the forthcoming Downton Abbey film, where Leon Seth is one of the key members of the location management team, acting as a vital bridge between the film crew and the local community. Antonia joins scout Jethro Ensor on the road in Liverpool as he seeks out possible locations for a drama set in London. These include an old mansion replete with original fittings, and a vast, disused Victorian orphanage. Antonia also speaks with Joe Cairns and Lauren York about the rise of location libraries, offering off-the-peg locations as a quick fix for scouts having to accommodate the burgeoning British film and TV industry.

Producer: Geoff Bird

Antonia Quirke speaks to key crew members working on film and drama series.

Screen Composers

20190212

20190216 (R4)

In the second part of the series, Antonia Quirke meets some of the people whose contribution to films and TV shows can have the most dramatic impact - the composers of the score. Some of its most famous practitioners - Bernard Hermann and Ennio Morricone fpr example - are spoken about in the same hushed tones as some of cinemas greatest directors. But how do they go about their work and how much of the job is down to single minded individual genius and how much down to a willingness to collaborate? In order to find out, Antonia hears from Mica Levi, whose work on 'Jackie' won her an Oscar nomination, as well as Francis Macdonald, drummer with the band Teenage Fanclub as he creates the soundtrack for a major BBC documentary about Raymond Briggs. Award winning musician Erland Cooper composes a piece overnight, especially for the show, to accompany a four-minute film shot on the Isle of Skye - and David Julyan tells Antonia all about his long term partnership, since their days at University film club, with director Christopher Nolan.

Producer: Geoff Bird

Credits:

- Mica Levi composed 'Messenger' and 'Mushrooms'. Both were mastered by Shawn Joseph at Optimum Mastering, Bristol UK

- Erland Cooper is the composer of our commissioned piece, The Croft

- Paul Fegan is director of the film 'The Herd

- David Julyan: We hear excerpts from Sarah Sees A Crawler', Are You Watching Closely', The Lair', Motel Room'.

- Francis MacDonald - we hear his theme from Cash Trapped' produced by Possessed for ITV. Also we hear theme from Raymond Briggs: Snowmen, Bogeymen and Milkmen' produced and directed by Louise Lockwood.

Antonia Quirke meets some of the bright young talents composing music for TV and film.

Antonia Quirke speaks to key crew members working on film and drama series.

Episodes

Series	Title	First Broadcast	Repeated	Comments
01	Camera Operator And Grip	20170703	20170906 (R4)	In this third episode Antonia heads to Dudley and encounters a gang of smooth operators on the set of the latest series of Peaky Blinders and puts some key roles into the frame. She journeys through the latest Star Wars films with an industry-renowned grip that also discusses his close-up work on Daniel Craig's most iconic Bond moments, and catches a team excitedly preparing camera equipment for the final series of Game of Thrones. Throughout, Antonia watches the cast and crews in action, grabbing them in the moments between filming and creating, revealing their various and sometimes entirely surprising contribution to productions, exploring the latest equipment and challenges. Along the way she gathers fascinating and often very moving stories of life behind the scenes. These aren't just the tales of the great actors of our times, but of the people who made those actors and actresses great, content instead to be the stars behind the camera. Exploring the key crew members on film and drama series defining modern entertainment. Antonia Quirke speaks to key crew members working on film and drama series.
01	Gaffer And Best Boy	20170619	20170904 (R4)	Film presenter Antonia Quirke speaks to key crew members working on the film and drama series that are defining modern entertainment. In this first episode Antonia wades through mud in Yorkshire on the stunning period set of Gunpowder a new star-studded, forthcoming BBC television drama starring Kit Harington as she links up with the dedicated crew responsible for all things electrical whatever the weather. She also meets with the renowned gaffer John 'Biggles' Higgins whose film credits include Gravity and Skyfall, and travels to Warner Brothers Studios in Watford to join a Best Boy to discuss his role as he works on the latest JJ Abrams production. Throughout, Antonia watches the cast and crews in action, grabbing them in the moments between filming, revealing their various and sometimes entirely surprising contribution to productions, exploring the latest equipment and challenges. Along the way she gathers fascinating and often very moving stories of life behind the scenes. These aren't just the tales of the great actors of our times, but of the people who made those actors and actresses great, content instead to be the stars behind the camera. Exploring the key crew members on film and drama series defining modern entertainment. Antonia Quirke speaks to key crew members working on film and drama series.
01	Stuntwoman	20170710	20170907 (R4)	Film presenter Antonia Quirke speaks to key crew members working on the film and drama series that are defining modern entertainment. In this episode Antonia meets a trio of fearless women that perform life-threatening stunts for the camera, as they break through windows, run through fires, hang from planes, crash cars and jump off buildings often in bikinis and tight clothing. On three closed and top-secret film sets Antonia observes a dangerous stunt being performed, she meets one co-ordinator as she choreographs a traumatic battle scene and watches another stuntwoman, who doubled for Kate Winslet on Titanic, supervise a dramatic fall. Determined and skilled, the women in this programme explain the skills both physical and mental required and disclose the social obstacles they have had to overcome and we discover their work is very much at the heart of what makes a film dramatic. Exploring the key crew members on film and drama series defining modern entertainment. Antonia Quirke speaks to key crew members working on film and drama series.
01	Visual Effects	20170626	20170905 (R4)	Film critic Antonia Quirke speaks to key crew members working on the film and drama series that are defining modern entertainment In this second episode Antonia makes a royal visit to the set of The Crown, the esteemed Netflix biographical drama television series to discover how thirty flag waving people are transformed into thirty thousand. She also visits an Oscar-winning UK visual effects team as they put the finishing touches to the upcoming American science fiction thriller film Annihilation, starring Natalie Portman, and speaks with the film's Director Alex Garland. Exploring the marriage of visual effects and performance she also meets with actor-director Andy Serkis to discuss the use of motion capture technology he pioneered as a performer on the Lord of the Rings films and King Kong. Throughout, Antonia watches the cast and crews in action, grabbing them in the moments between filming and creating, revealing their various and sometimes entirely surprising contribution to productions, exploring the latest equipment and challenges. Along the way she gathers fascinating and often very moving stories of life behind the scenes. These aren't just the tales of the great actors of our times, but of the people who made those actors and actresses great, content instead to be the stars behind the camera. Exploring the key crew members on film and drama series defining modern entertainment. Antonia Quirke speaks to key crew members working on film and drama series.
02	Animal Wranglers	20190219	20190223 (R4)	Never work with children o animals, goes the famous advice for anyone working on film or TV production - and according to director, on the set of the forthcoming ITV drama Deep Water', children are by far the easier of the two. A good wrangler is indispensable on the set of any production involving animals, preventing hours being wasted while errant beasts are brought to heel. In the third part of the series, Antonia Quirke meets expert wranglers including Bozena Bienkowska, who describes the impact of bringing her wolf onto set, as well as the lengths wranglers must go to in order to avoid being seen on screen; she describe hiding up chimneys, being buried in pits and lying in the boots of cars in order to stay close to her animals as they take their turn in the spotlight. Antonia also visits The Devil's Horsemen'. a company specialising in providing horses in some of the biggest films and TV shows in the world, including Games of Thrones, Wonder Woman and the recent Mary Queen of Scots. She also speaks with Brady Jandreau, a cowboy and horse trainer who went from being a screen wrangler to a leading actor in the film The Rider' following a horrific accident he suffered while competing in a rodeo. Antonia Quirke meets some of the wranglers looking after animals on the big screen. Antonia Quirke speaks to key crew members working on film and drama series.
02	Foley Artists	20190226	20190302 (R4)	If a foley artist does their job well, you'll never notice them while you're watching a movie. They are the people who add the sound of everything from footsteps and rattling jewellery to jail cells being slammed shut and guns being loaded once the filming's over. And it's not just viewers who don't realise that such sounds are in fact created later on, as Antonia Quirke discovers in this final part of Cast and Crew' - sometimes even actors don't know that the footsteps they hear in the final movie aren't their own. She visits ace foley artist Ruth Sullivan in a dedicated foley studio and watches on as Ruth records the sounds of a football match using a boxing glove and some mint leaves. We hear from one of the masters of foley - Walter Murch - about his work on The Godfather, and Antonia meets Barnaby Smyth, who recently donned his ballet shoes to create the sounds for the forthcoming biopic about Rudolf Nureyev, The White Crow'. Producer Geoff Bird Antonia Quirke celebrates the unsung heroes of cinematic sound - foley artists. Antonia Quirke speaks to key crew members working on film and drama series.
02	Location Managers	20190205	20190209 (R4)	Antonia Quirke begins the new series with a look at the role of the location manager in film and television production. Quirke's Cast and Crew' examines the contribution made by some of the unsung heroes within film and television - later in the series Antonia will meet animal wranglers, foley artists and composers, and in this first episode Antonia hears all about the vital role of the location manager. Often among the very first people employed on a production, the locations they come up have a major impact on the look and feel of a show or film. The programme begins on the set of the forthcoming Downton Abbey film, where Leon Seth is one of the key members of the location management team, acting as a vital bridge between the film crew and the local community. Antonia joins scout Jethro Ensor on the road in Liverpool as he seeks out possible locations for a drama set in London. These include an old mansion replete with original fittings, and a vast, disused Victorian orphanage. Antonia also speaks with Joe Cairns and Lauren York about the rise of location libraries, offering off-the-peg locations as a quick fix for scouts having to accommodate the burgeoning British film and TV industry. Producer: Geoff Bird Antonia Quirke speaks to key crew members working on film and drama series.
02	Screen Composers	20190212	20190216 (R4)	In the second part of the series, Antonia Quirke meets some of the people whose contribution to films and TV shows can have the most dramatic impact - the composers of the score. Some of its most famous practitioners - Bernard Hermann and Ennio Morricone fpr example - are spoken about in the same hushed tones as some of cinemas greatest directors. But how do they go about their work and how much of the job is down to single minded individual genius and how much down to a willingness to collaborate? In order to find out, Antonia hears from Mica Levi, whose work on 'Jackie' won her an Oscar nomination, as well as Francis Macdonald, drummer with the band Teenage Fanclub as he creates the soundtrack for a major BBC documentary about Raymond Briggs. Award winning musician Erland Cooper composes a piece overnight, especially for the show, to accompany a four-minute film shot on the Isle of Skye - and David Julyan tells Antonia all about his long term partnership, since their days at University film club, with director Christopher Nolan. Producer: Geoff Bird Credits: - Mica Levi composed 'Messenger' and 'Mushrooms'. Both were mastered by Shawn Joseph at Optimum Mastering, Bristol UK - Erland Cooper is the composer of our commissioned piece, The Croft - Paul Fegan is director of the film 'The Herd - David Julyan: We hear excerpts from Sarah Sees A Crawler', Are You Watching Closely', The Lair', Motel Room'. - Francis MacDonald - we hear his theme from Cash Trapped' produced by Possessed for ITV. Also we hear theme from Raymond Briggs: Snowmen, Bogeymen and Milkmen' produced and directed by Louise Lockwood. Antonia Quirke meets some of the bright young talents composing music for TV and film. Antonia Quirke speaks to key crew members working on film and drama series.