In this new documentary, Susan Kemp explores the life and work of the great British director Antonia Bird, who died in 2013. Bird blazed a trail from the radical hotbed of the Royal Court Theatre in the 70s, via the groundbreaking early days of EastEnders and Casualty in the 80s, all the way to Hollywood in the 90s and back again. She always had something urgent to say, but her career was a long struggle to get her voice heard. Featuring many of her close collaborators, including Robert Carlyle, Irvine Welsh, Kate Hardie and Mark Cousins, this documentary is the first to examine Bird’s legacy, and to place her where she belongs – among the most important British film, TV and theatre directors of her era.
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Antonia Bird as Self (archive footage)
Kate Hardie as Self
Robert Carlyle as Self
Mark Cousins as Self
Irvine Welsh as Self
Steven Mackintosh as Self
Anita Dobson as Self
Finola Dwyer as Self
Pippa Harris as Self
Florian Hoffmeister as Self
David M. Thompson as Self
Andy Roberts as Self
Jonathan Powell as Self
Paul Unwin as Self
Susan Wilkins as Self
Caroline Oulton as Self
George Faber as Self
Paul Tripp as Self
Ronan Bennett as Self
Mark Gill as Self
Ruth Caleb as Self
St. John O'Rorke as Self
Kay Mellor as Self
Adrian Corker as Self
Jane Sillars as Self
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