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Eight on the Slate: What commissioners want (BritBox’s Stephen Nye)

UK-based exec talks period romance, a shapely forearm and his focus on ’emotional generosity’

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How the BBC’s local journalists made a shocking trial into a doc with global appeal

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Show of a lifetime: the final chapter of Up

70 Up concludes TV’s longest-running documentary. Heather Fallon finds out what made the project so special

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