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Our Lives, Our Stories with Carl Chinn Podcast
Nicola Silk

Nicola Silk

Our Lives, Our Stories with Carl Chinn vor 2 Monaten

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Carl Chinn sits down with Nicola Silk, a Birmingham based
producer and director whose life has been closely tied to
television from the very beginning. She was one of the first
children through the doors of the BBC Pebble Mill nursery,
dancing with the Wombles on the lawn at four years old whilst her
mum, a rare woman in 1960s television, worked in the studios
nearby. From there, her story became, in many ways, the story of
Birmingham telly itself.

Nicola looks back on a childhood shaped by two faiths, a Catholic
mom and a Jewish dad, and on teenage years spent playing
keyboards in the bands. She talks about learning her craft at
Pebble Mill, the generous mentors who shaped her, directing
Travel Man with Richard Ayoade and later Joe Lycett, and how a
curiosity about Birmingham grew into Joe Lycett's United States
of Birmingham and a real, now annual International Day of
Birmingham.

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