John Bridcut
John Bridcut MVO is an English documentary filmmaker. Bridcut was educated at Radley College and Keble College, Oxford, obtaining a MA in literae humaniores (classics) in 1971. He is an honorary fellow of Keble College.
John Bridcut
- Occupation
- film director · screenwriter · filmmaker
- Education
- Radley College
- Known for
- Britten's children
- Honours
- Royal Philharmonic Society Award (Storytelling)
- Languages
- English
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John Bridcut MVO is an English documentary filmmaker. Bridcut was educated at Radley College and Keble College, Oxford, obtaining a MA in literae humaniores (classics) in 1971. He is an honorary fellow of Keble College.
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In 1975 he joined the BBC as a news trainee, and worked on news and current affairs programmes for twelve years. Since then he has been an independent producer, mainly working through his own company, Crux Productions. Bridcut is best known for his films about British composers. His most famous work, Britten's Children (2004), is a study of the influence that Benjamin Britten's close relationships with children had on the composer and material from the documentary was later made into a book (2006). He has also created documentaries about Ralph Vaughan Williams (The Passions of Vaughan Williams, 2008), Edward Elgar (The Man Behind the Mask, 2010) and Hubert Parry (The Prince and the Composer, 2011), the latter a collaboration with Charles, Prince of Wales, whom he had earlier profiled in Charles at 60: The Passionate Prince. In November 2018, after being given 12 months exclusive access to Charles, Prince of Wales, Bridcut's film Prince, Son and Heir: Charles at 70 was first aired by the BBC. Other documentaries by Bridcut include studies of Queen Elizabeth II, Michael Tippett, Rudolf Nureyev, Roald Dahl and Hillary Clinton. In 2012, Bridcut was made a Member of the Royal Victorian Order.
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