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Brook Lapping is an internationally acclaimed independent documentary production company.
We specialise in landmark television series - including THE SECOND RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, WATERGATE, THE DEATH OF YUGOSLAVIA, ISRAEL AND THE ARABS: ELUSIVE PEACE and IRAN AND THE WEST - where participants such as Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Slobodan Milosevic, Tony Blair, Ariel Sharon, Vladimir Putin, Francois Mitterrand, Boris Yeltsin, Mikhail Gorbachev and Henry Kissinger reveal what really happened behind closed doors.
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Brian Lapping and Norma Percy at History Makers FRIDAY 29 JANUARY
Brian and Norma will present a Master Class at the History Makers International Summit of History and Current Affairs Producers in New York on Friday 29 January. They will describe how their techniques for getting right inside the key moments of history have evolved. The session is moderated by Nick Fraser and introduced by Stephen Segaller. On 28 January, IRAN & THE WEST won Best Current Affairs Production at the History Makers Awards.
Turkey in Europe - SUNDAY 7 FEBRUARY, 9.30pm BBC Radio 3
Four hundred years ago, much of Central Europe was under Turkish rule and the traces of their presence remain to this day. We bathe, drink coffee and eat croissants courtesy of the Ottoman Turks. Even the music of Mozart is full of Turkish sounds. Yet many nations still resist Turkey joining the EU. In this week’s Sunday Feature, film-maker and broadcaster Dennis Marks asks whether they are in denial about the past influence of the Ottoman Empire He visits today’s Turkish communities in Vienna and the Moslem districts of Sarajevo and poses that question to contemporary Austrians, Bosnians and Turks - artists, scholars, politicians and historians - to discover what they share and what they fear.
Norma Percy and Iran & The West win Grierson Awards
Norma Percy has won the Grierson Trust’s highest accolade - The Trustee’s Award - in recognition of her outstanding achievement and contribution to the art of documentary filmmaking during a career spanning more than 30 years. She then went on to win the 2009 Envy Best Documentary Series prize - along with her Brook Lapping colleagues Brian Lapping, Dai Richards, Delphine Jaudeau and Paul Mitchell. The judges described the series saying: “With its extraordinary access, Iran and the West told a gripping story with a consistent and clear narrative, often revealing new material and throwing a timely light on events today. An important historical record, which never faltered.”
Bach Fever! – TUESDAY 29th DECEMBER 1.30pm BBC Radio 4
Universally loved, Bach's music has always been a serious resource for musicians: music teaching, composition, keyboard harmony and study of all sorts. But a resource for jazz, electronic, pop, acapella and easy listening as well? Oh yes ... the master is behind it all. Arrangements of Bach are everywhere, in every musical genre. Filled with brilliant music, this programme explores these other sides of Johann, and asks what it is about Bach in particular that lends itself to such extraordinary invention, imitation and pilfery ... from the Brandenburg Concertos recorded on a Moog to easy listening records like "Bach Goes Bossa!".
Archive on 4: When Bailey Met Warhol - BBC Radio 4,10th and 12th October
Andy Warhol’s friend and muse Jerry Hall interviews photographer David Bailey about his relationship to the pop artist – and tells the story of the infamous television documentary Bailey made about Warhol in 1973 which was temporarily banned in the UK, causing the greatest national public row on art, obscenity and censorship since the publication of ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ and the ‘Oz’ Magazine obscenity trial.
