Richard Denton (producer) explained

Richard Denton is a British television producer. Currently the Series Producer of the returning strand SHAKESPEARE UNCOVERED which is building to be 18 films as Prefaces to Shakespeare in TV Documentary format. He was perhaps previously best known for his Gorbachov era BBC documentary series Comrades.^[1]

Documentaries

• Public School - a BBC television film series (made in 1979; transmitted in 1980) about Radley College, an independent boarding school for boys in Oxfordshire.^{[2] [3]}
• Kingswood: A Comprehensive School - a BBC television series (made in 1980/81 and transmitted in 1982) about The Kingswood School, a typical Northamptonshire comprehensive school.^[3]
• presented by Jonathan Miller - Famous Quotations narrated by Bernard Hill.
• Did Jesus Die? - a documentary including material on Jesus in India theories and the Roza Bal shrine. Narrated by Bernard Hill
• Comrades - a 12 part observational series made in 1984/5 filming different stories across the USSR
• "Papa Wojtyla" A three part biographical BBC series on Pope John Paul II including the first ever TV interview with any Pope
• "Caviar & Cornflakes". BBC film about British Journalists (Patrick Cockburn) and Diplomats in Moscow at the time of Chernobyl accident
• "Born in the USSR" BBC film about the return of Vladimir Ashkenazy the pianist and conductor for his first visit after his Defection from the Soviet Union
• "Miss USSR" international documentary for PBS and BBC about the first ever Soviet Union Beauty Pageant
• "Madness" a five part series presented by Jonathan Miller for BBC
• "The Real John Lennon" A Channel Four biographical documentary
• "Cilla: in Black and White." A Channel Four biographical documentary
• "Sex Slaves in the Cellar" Channel Five .
• "Shakespeare Uncovered" an ongoing celebrity led series of documentaries for PBS on individual Shakespeare plays

Notes and References

1. Time 1986 128 p98 Briton Hadden, Henry Robinson Luce "The unstated implication is that she also is typical. The people shown were to a degree handpicked, but BBC Producer Richard Denton was at least able to interview them without his Soviet guides being present. However, he quickly concedes ..."
2. Rob Walker Doing Research: A Handbook for Teachers 1985-p25 "More recently Richard Denton's films Public School and Kingswood, also made for the BBC, have attracted considerable attention. Apparently the BBC went to some lengths in these cases to prepare people for the likely public reaction, but ..."
3. New directions in pastoral care p195 Peter Lang, Michael Marland, National Association for Pastoral Care in Education - 1985 "Roger Graef's documentary film School, in the Space Between Words series, and Richard Denton's Public School- a film of the life of Radley College, and Kingswood - an account of life in a Northamptonshire comprehensive school,"