{"id":182,"date":"2003-01-20T11:29:07","date_gmt":"2003-01-20T11:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2003\/01\/stephen_poliako\/"},"modified":"2003-01-20T11:29:07","modified_gmt":"2003-01-20T11:29:07","slug":"stephen_poliako","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/stephen_poliako\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Poliakoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night saw the first part of the new Stephen Poliakoff drama, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/drama\/lostprince\/\">The Lost Prince<\/a>. I&#8217;ve enjoyed his work since I first saw <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0080507\">Caught on a Train<\/a> (repeated tonight on BBC4) some years ago. He&#8217;s always though provoking, and has interesting characters and subject matter.<br \/>\nIn this case, about a little known royal prince who was epileptic and autistic, and was therefore kept out of the public eye by his parents, George V and Queen Mary. The two child actors playing Prince John were exceptional, as was the rest of the cast.<br \/>\nThe second and final part is next Sunday, but in the meantime, BBC4 are running a whole season of Poliakoff&#8217;s work.<br \/>\nLast night was <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0078881\">Bloody Kids<\/a>, which was a gritty look at late 70s teenage life on a Saturday night in Southend. I hadn&#8217;t seen it before, and since it was introduced as a former Play for Today, I was surprised at the quality of the film stock.  The credits at the end also suggested ITC involvement and British Lion, so I would say it had a cinema release at some point and was shot on 35mm. I could be wrong but that doesn&#8217;t seem like a BBC production to me. Directed by Stephen Frears too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night saw the first part of the new Stephen Poliakoff drama, The Lost Prince. I&#8217;ve enjoyed his work since I first saw Caught on a Train (repeated tonight on BBC4) some years ago. He&#8217;s always though provoking, and has interesting characters and subject matter. In this case, about a little known royal prince who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}