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Our film of the farming year on Essex farm fascinates
You know a film is impressing an audience when they share it. Within just a few weeks of releasing our latest major farm film of a farming year, thousands of people had watched it and recommended it to their networks. And the audience continues to grow.
An Essex farm’s farming year in film
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Demystifying making radio: AKA Mystery Island
It’s months in the making. When people ask us how long our radio documentaries for BBC World Service can take to make that can be the answer: months. That is certainly true of our latest – AKA Mystery Island – which is being broadcast this week around the world.
getting inside Mystery Island StoryFirst there’s lots […]
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AKA Mystery Island: tiny island, big story
We are making our next one hour documentary for BBC World Service. It investigates the extraordinary growth of cruise ship traffic, in particular to Vanuatu. From this chain of islands in the South Pacific we report from the southernmost island of Aneityum and how the community of Anelguhat is managing the influx of as many as 30,000 cruise ship […]
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Our BBC World Service documentary – Horses for Courses
Elegant, athletic and groomed to perfection, young thoroughbred horses are the focus for our latest radio documentary for BBC World Service. You can catch the broadcast live or online on the BBC World Service website.
Capturing action and atmosphereRecording the programme involved Green Shoots spending long days at the historic Tattersalls auction site in Newmarket, Suffolk for […]
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We’re on air: Follow That Tractor
We’re on air. Our latest BBC World Service radio documentary is Follow that Tractor. Listen to an extraordinary tale of people, places and machinery that we loved putting together so you can marvel at these secondhand farm machines and all that they mean.
The tractor supermarketIn a flat piece of English Fenland, a site the size of 40 […]
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Follow us in ‘Follow that Tractor’ on BBC World Service radio
Read our latest news for broadcast times for Follow that Tractor.
We’ve heard some very good news. BBC World Service have said “Yes please” to our idea of a radio documentary for broadcast this summer around the world. Why? Because we have a story with great pulling power.
In our programme Follow That Tractor we will be […]
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High five: celebrating five successful years in business
Sometimes an anniversary simply sneaks up on you. We were surprised and delighted when the congratulations came in from LinkedIn to Green Shoots for five successful years in business. Five years: time to reflect.
Time for a count up
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Top Tips from Film Making Training
Film is fantastic for informing and inspiring – and certainly for entertaining. But without the right techniques all your creativity – and your viewer’s time – will be wasted.
This year we’re finding the Green Shoots Movie Making Masterclasses are a big hit. We love giving film making training and helping film makers not just to make […]
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Making Headlines
We find that doing one job well often leads to another.
These days that usually involves work across several media.
Following on from our radio documentary series on global poultry production we were asked to write a newspaper article for a national newspaper.
The task: sum up six months of investigation and an hour’s radio in 400 words. We […]
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Going Cheep and Cheap
The world’s love affair with chicken meat dates back 10,000 years.
For BBC World Service we’ve made a radio documentary series ‘What if Chicken Conquers the World?’ about the modern global broiler business. The people, places and processes that drive this world-dominating industry are incredible.
Farmers, breeders, chefs, scientists, bankers and chickens, of course, all have their […]
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