Many people know and associate Newcastle with TV and Film icons Get Carter, Byker Grove, The Tube and Our Friends in the North. However, do you know where Ralph Richardson stole money from in 1939? Why a den of spies were living in Jesmond in 1951? Who met Tommy Lee Jones on the High Level Bridge in 1988? Why Gateshead High Street was under siege in 2009? and which Newcastle flats seem to appear in every programme or film made in Newcastle?
Chris Phipps was the BBC’s Black Country Correspondent in the1970s. He moved to the North East to produce Channel 4’s flagship rock show The Tube from Tyne Tees Television in Newcastle from 1982 to 1987. Since then his passionate and expert knowledge of entertainment and popular music has been captured on radio, television, film, print and the speaker’s rostrum. His ITV series Northstars and documentary Chris Rea – Hard is the Road both received prestigious Royal Television Society Awards.
Come and hear Chris talk about his long career in film and television in the North East as part of our FREE Week One.
Chris will be speaking from
10.45 to 11.45
and
12.30 to 13.30
on
Tuesday 3rd October 2017
in the Green Room on the 4th floor of Commercial Union House.
There will be an opportunity to buy a signed copy of Chris's new book
Forget Carter: Newcastle on Film and Television
after the talks.
Click
here
to book your free place for Chris's talks.
Thanks to Chris's publisher
Tyne Bridge Publishing
for their support with this event.