I’ve worked with the Science Museum Group (SMG) learning team over the last few years developing and scripting short gallery introduction films, initially with creative consultancy Radley Yeldar and more recently with Hewitt & Walker video production. For each film I look for stories that help to show that every visitor has a stake in…
Category: SCRIPTS
Shells, shores and beyond: the dark side of one woman’s pioneering shell collection, as revealed by letters I read in a new English Heritage exhibition
After working with English Heritage on writing and voice projects for Whitby Abbey and Belsay Hall, I was delighted to be asked to read letters from the archives of 18th-century shell-collector Bridget Atkinson for their new exhibition at Chesters Roman Fort in Northumberland. Bridget had many identities: the daughter of industrial tanners from Cumbria, she…
Rise of the Machines and Robots: show script for 1001 Inventions at Kuwaiti festival featuring a blend of actors and robots.
Chef robots, piano-playing robots, actor robots, even robots that can respond naturally to conversation, pull faces and tell jokes. 1001 Inventions brought them together from around the world for a huge robotics and artificial intelligence festival in Kuwait in February 2020. To set the scene and wow the sold-out audience, the team wanted a live…