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Paul Tucker

Paul has worked in broadcast television production across five decades, in Birmingham,London, San Francisco and Glasgow. As a freelance producer/director he has made over one hundred hours of television. This has included documentary, obdocs, reality tv, factual entertainment, drama-documentary, talk shows, quiz shows, features and children’s television.

Highlights include producing and directing a drama documentary about murderer Peter Manuel, shown on BBC Alba’s opening night and Edit Producing the first 'Inside Central Station' transmitted during week one of BBC Scotland. Also his own production company made the Edwyn Collins documentary 'Home Again' that was shown on BBC Scotland, BBC4 and BBC2. It has also been shown at film festivals in Spain, Chile and Argentina.

He has a list of primetime network credits as producer, director and series producer including Edit Producer on the BAFTA winning Antiques Road Trip

Paul joined the lecturing staff of the School of Business and Creative Industries at UWS in 2009.

Can a new access scheme get more working-class people into the TV industry?

Aug 26, 2024 23:58 pm UTC| Insights & Views Business

TV was everything to me, said British playwright James Graham at this years Edinburgh TV Festivals MacTaggart lecture on August 20. The dramatist used his recollections of the television he watched in his youth together...

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