About this episode

Neil Mattocks interviews Nigel Douglas about his experiences directing Grange Hill and the challenges of storytelling in television.

In the latest episode of Sausage On A Fork, we're joined by Nigel Douglas, a Director in four series of Grange Hill in the 1990s. Nigel tells us what it was like directing some of the biggest names in television during his first directing job; exactly how much research went into the more hard-hitting storylines of Grange Hill and why working on a game reserve in South Africa wasn't as amazing as it sounds!

People in this episode

Host: Neil Mattocks

Guest: Nigel Douglas

Topics covered

• directing
• television
• Grange Hill
• storytelling
• South Africa

Keywords

• Grange Hill
• Nigel Douglas
• directing
• television history
• storylines
• South Africa
• 90s TV

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Grange Hill

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