ILW event: What is Truth? Share an afternoon with Murdoch Rodgers (BBC Panorama) and Robin Soans (Talking to Terrorists, Royal Court Theatre). After the presentations there will be a chaired, open public discussion on themes and issues raised. Murdoch Rodgers is an investigative journalist, director and producer who started his career in broadcasting by discovering the pearls that could emerge from a successful interview. In a career that has spanned over thirty years he has concentrated his efforts at exposing abuses of power and authority and there has been no shortage of targets - from paramilitaries to Archbishops, bankers to BNP leaders, businessmen to sporting legends. He has produced and directed dozens of investigations mainly for Panorama and BBC Scotland. His work has been recognised with numerous awards from BAFTA, the Royal Television Society, the Foreign Press Association and his last film, about doping in athletics, won the British Journalism Award in November. Robin Soans is an actor, and a playwright specialising in verbatim and documentary plays. These plays include Across the Divide (2007); A State Affair(2000) which looked at life on a Bradford estate, produced by Out of Joint theatre company; The Arab Israeli Cookbook (Gate Theatre 2004); Talking to Terrorists(Out of Joint theatre company and Royal Court Theatre); Life After Scandal (Hampstead Theatre); and Crouch, Touch, Pause, Engage (Out of Joint theatre company, National Theatre Wales, Arcola Theatre, and Sherman Cymru). Other plays include Bet Noir (Young Vic 1986); Sinners and Saints (The Croydon Warehouse) and Will and Testament (The Oval House). He wrote Mixed Up North for LAMDA theatre school in 2008, about a youth theatre group created as a means to unite divided racial communities in the Lancashire mill town of Burnley; in 2009 it was performed professionally in a co-production between Out of Joint theatre company and Bolton Octagon Theatre. As an actor, he has appeared at The National Theatre, The Royal Court, The Royal Shakespeare Company and Shakespeare's Globe. He also starred in Bill Douglas's epic film of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, Comrades. Feb 17 2016 14.00 - 17.00 ILW event: What is Truth? Presented by the School as part of Innovative Learning Week, this special event will include screenings, readings and short presentations of the work of one of the UK's most successful documentary film makers and a playwright and actor famed for his work in the making of verbatim plays. Screening Room (G.04) 50 George Square Edinburgh EH8 9LH Find the venue Book a place at the event
ILW event: What is Truth? Share an afternoon with Murdoch Rodgers (BBC Panorama) and Robin Soans (Talking to Terrorists, Royal Court Theatre). After the presentations there will be a chaired, open public discussion on themes and issues raised. Murdoch Rodgers is an investigative journalist, director and producer who started his career in broadcasting by discovering the pearls that could emerge from a successful interview. In a career that has spanned over thirty years he has concentrated his efforts at exposing abuses of power and authority and there has been no shortage of targets - from paramilitaries to Archbishops, bankers to BNP leaders, businessmen to sporting legends. He has produced and directed dozens of investigations mainly for Panorama and BBC Scotland. His work has been recognised with numerous awards from BAFTA, the Royal Television Society, the Foreign Press Association and his last film, about doping in athletics, won the British Journalism Award in November. Robin Soans is an actor, and a playwright specialising in verbatim and documentary plays. These plays include Across the Divide (2007); A State Affair(2000) which looked at life on a Bradford estate, produced by Out of Joint theatre company; The Arab Israeli Cookbook (Gate Theatre 2004); Talking to Terrorists(Out of Joint theatre company and Royal Court Theatre); Life After Scandal (Hampstead Theatre); and Crouch, Touch, Pause, Engage (Out of Joint theatre company, National Theatre Wales, Arcola Theatre, and Sherman Cymru). Other plays include Bet Noir (Young Vic 1986); Sinners and Saints (The Croydon Warehouse) and Will and Testament (The Oval House). He wrote Mixed Up North for LAMDA theatre school in 2008, about a youth theatre group created as a means to unite divided racial communities in the Lancashire mill town of Burnley; in 2009 it was performed professionally in a co-production between Out of Joint theatre company and Bolton Octagon Theatre. As an actor, he has appeared at The National Theatre, The Royal Court, The Royal Shakespeare Company and Shakespeare's Globe. He also starred in Bill Douglas's epic film of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, Comrades. Feb 17 2016 14.00 - 17.00 ILW event: What is Truth? Presented by the School as part of Innovative Learning Week, this special event will include screenings, readings and short presentations of the work of one of the UK's most successful documentary film makers and a playwright and actor famed for his work in the making of verbatim plays. Screening Room (G.04) 50 George Square Edinburgh EH8 9LH Find the venue Book a place at the event
Feb 17 2016 14.00 - 17.00 ILW event: What is Truth? Presented by the School as part of Innovative Learning Week, this special event will include screenings, readings and short presentations of the work of one of the UK's most successful documentary film makers and a playwright and actor famed for his work in the making of verbatim plays.
