True North Presents ‘Sunday Life’ on BBC 1 from 20 April, 10 am (11/04/2008)
True North's brand new series Sunday Life starts on BBC One on Sunday 20th April at 10am. Sunday Life will be broadcast live from a converted Victorian mill near Bradford. Former Olympic athlete Colin Jackson CBE and BBC News presenter Louise Minchin will host the show. Screen Yorkshire played a key role in helping True North win the prestigious commission with the BBC last year.
The series, which replaces the long running Heaven and Earth show, swaps the familiar studio setup in favour of a vibrant converted loft apartment, where the walls are real, and the guests feel at home. Each week the apartment will play host to a lively mix of news, chat, debate and conversation with the people at the heart of every story.The first few editions of the 24-part, weekly series will feature a wide range of unique and compelling stories, including:
Emmerdale Actress Georgia Slowe visits Auschwitz to uncover the story of her mother's escape from the Nazis
In the wake of a spate of suicides in Bridgend, Wales, Sunday Life visits Belfast to mark the fifth anniversary of a cluster of thirteen suicides in the Ardoyne area of the city
Colin Jackson meets Archbishop Desmond Tutu
And, in the first programme, Louise Minchin tells the inspirational story of Gill Hicks, a survivor of the 7/7 bombings on London
Sunday Life Online * website launch w/c 14 April
www.bbc.co.uk/sundaylife
Sunday Life online is at the heart of the show's brand. Created by Sheffield based Quba New Media, the website features user generated content, blogs from the show's presenters and diaries from featured guests.
True North Productions is the biggest factual independent production company in the north, and was named the eighth biggest factual indie in the UK in the 2008 Broadcast Indie Survey.
The company's credits include Animal 24:7 for BBC One, Animal Rescue Squad for Five, and The Way We Worshipped for ITV1, alongside a number of BBC ONE life documentaries including The Woman Who Can't Stop Lying, The Ripper Murdered My Mum and Getting Away with Murder. www.truenorthproductions.co.uk
Sheffield based Quba New Media formed in 2000. Quba brings together design excellence and technical insight to create unique digital experiences - from websites, to fully interactive DVD materials and mobile. www.quba.co.uk
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