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Tom Ranson
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TV producer and director. Pompeii with Dan Snow and Kate Lister. RI Xmas Lectures with Dame Sue Black. Love science, history and film. Excited about AR, less so about AI. Twickenham via Doncaster.
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Had a lot of fun making "Pompeii - Life in the City" with the brilliant and lovely duo, Kate Lister and @thehistoryguy. Watch on My5 now!
July 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Tough times for soap writers. Anybody who is effected can get in touch with the @writersguildgb.bsky.social in confidence.
February 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
A show I directed a few years ago is repeated on BBC 2 tonight. "Digging for Britain - Iron Age Revealed" features a truly amazing Yorkshire chariot burial and the brilliant
@prehistorian.bsky.social. You can watch here on iPlayer too! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Two - Digging for Britain, Series 7, Iron Age Revealed
Archaeologists unearth Iron Age Britain’s most spectacular burial in Yorkshire.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 11, 2024 at 11:15 AM
bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... Kubrick, Lucas, Spielberg and Rylance were/are all followers of Jung. I've always wanted to make a film exploring the power of his ideas. Here Don Cupitt does a far better job than I ever could. Well done the BBC for resurfacing this.
The Sea of Faith - The Human Animal
Don Cupitt explores how Darwin's theory of evolution seemed to make the idea of special creation by God impossible.
bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2024 at 5:50 PM
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I’m old enough to remember when AskJeeves and Altavista were suddenly abandoned in the space of weeks or days, ditto MySpace, it can happen
November 15, 2024 at 8:27 AM
I was in Pompeii last month shooting a new documentary for Channel 5. Spectacular place.
November 13, 2024 at 4:58 PM