Broadcast
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Our key personnel trained at and worked on the staff of BBC
Television before founding Malachite Ltd. in 1976. Work from the
BBC continued and Malachite also won grants from the Arts Council for
films, subsequently broadcast, featuring the diverse talents of jazz
composer Mike
Westbrook and opera diva Jessye Norman. |
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In 1982, UK's Channel 4 TV began broadcasting; a year earlier,
Malachite had gained the Channel's first-ever fully financed commission, Playing
Turkey, a 90 minute 'road movie' featuring the National Youth Jazz
Orchestra on a British Council tour of Turkey. |
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Further commissions from Channel 4 followed, especially in Arts and
Education, including several long-running documentary series, notably Design
Matters, Cities with a Future? and Looking into Paintings. |
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Our re-location to Lincolnshire
led to a working relationship with ITV broadcaster Anglia Television,
which in the 1990’s commissioned Charles Mapleston to produce and direct
several of his own personal arts and music projects, including: John
Clare's Journey, Clarke's Penny Whistle, A Voyage with Nancy
Blackett and Sequins in my Dreams. |
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Whilst we continue to develop projects
for the UK's main terrestrial broadcasters; Charles Mapleston occasionally
takes on freelance directing assignments such as the four
hour-long part-dramatized science history series, Connections,
for Discovery Channel in the US. |
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