4 x 30 minute comedy
BBC Radio 4, 2019

Maureen and Lesley are two sisters in their sixties. Lesley, the younger, a bit of an irresponsible wild child in her youth, moved back into their childhood home to nurse their aged mother through her last illness. Now the sisters are decluttering the place prior to putting it on the market. Maureen, the older sister, a high-achiever with nervy undertones, drives up the motorway every Thursday to give Lesley a hand. The sibling rivalry of sixty years is alive and flourishing. Long-forgotten objects surface, prompting long-buried resentments and poignant moments. And then suddenly a mystery man turns up on their doorstep. David says he’s interested in buying the house, but the sisters begin to suspect he has another, more secret agenda…

Written by

Sue Limb

Producer

Jamie Rix

Director

Jamie Rix

Cast

SERIES 1 6x30 minute comedies A stellar flock of renowned British acting talent in Alison Steadman, Nigel Planer, Morwenna Banks, Tony Gardner, Jonathan Coy and Jolyon Coy is going down on the farm in Mucking In, an everyday tale of sex, lies and agriculture which launches on BBC Radio 4 on Friday 22 July 2022

The six-part series, written by Sue Limb and Betsy Vriend, is an escape to the country and a jaunt though the eternal agonies of love and the complexities of family life. The seasonal rhythms and tasks of farming life give structure and atmosphere to a story about a family adapting to the return of an adult child in crisis.

1 x 15 minute short film
Little Brother Productions & BFI, 2019

Written and directed by Matthew Dunster, and starring Maxine Peake, Judy is the story of a mother who fights to keep her family together in the wake of her cancer diagnosis.

Written and Directed by

Matthew Dunster

Producer

Ben Rix

Director of Photography

Simon Tindall

Editor

Stephanie Tasker

Composer

James Maloney

Production Designer

Belle Mundi

Cast

1 x 45 minute comedy
BBC Radio 4, 2017

Penned by Sue Limb, the writer of Radio 4’s hugely popular historical comedy series Gloomsbury, Lord Byron and the Curse of Sintra follows the amorous adventures of the flamboyant Romantic poet -known as much for his work as his scandalous aristocratic excesses - as he hides from jealous husbands in a guesthouse in Portugal.

Written by

Sue Limb

Producer

Jamie Rix

Director

Jamie Rix

Cast

6 x 30 minute comedy
BBC Radio 4, 2016

Miriam Margolyes, Alison Steadman, Morwenna Banks, Jonathan Coy, John Sessions and Nigel Planer are back for a new series of adulterous adventures in Gloomsbury, the riotous six-part comedy that parodies the infamous goings-on of the Bloomsbury group.

Written by Sue Limb, Gloomsbury is an affectionate send up of the group whose arty and amorous adventures scandalised the nation in the early 20th century. This fourth series continues to follow the fortunes of novelist and gardener Vera Sackcloth-Vest (Margolyes),husband Henry Mickleton (Coy) and their extremely close coterie of artists, novelists and public figures.

During this new series Lionel and Ginny Fox (Nigel Planer and Alison Steadman) are struggling with money worries as Maynard Keynes advised them to make some very dodgy investments on the Stock Market and they have lost a small fortune. Meanwhile at Sizzlinghurst, Henry has become concerned about what he sees as Vera’s dangerous susceptibility to romance, and her tendency to fascinate more than one woman at once. Luckily he has his biography of the King to distract him as well as the odd visit from the Prince of Wales, accompanied by Wallis Simpleton.

Written by

Sue Limb

Producer

Jamie Rix

Director

Jamie Rix

Cast

6 x 30 minute comedy
BBC Radio 4, 2014

Second series of the riotous comedy about the Bloomsbury Group.

Written by Sue Limb, Gloomsbury II is an affectionate send up of the infamous literary group whose arty and adulterous adventures dominated the cultural scene in the early 20th century. This second series continues to follow the fortunes of Vera Sackcloth-Vest (Margolyes), writer, gardener and transvestite, and her amorous antics among her close-knit coterie of writers, poets and artists.

Written by

Sue Limb

Producer

Jamie Rix

Director

Jamie Rix

Cast

1 x 60 minute drama
BBC Radio 3, The Wire, 2013

When her teenage son Matthew is charged with raping three women in one night on a university campus, Brenda Kapowitz fights for him to be sentenced as a child and finds herself in the spotlight. With Matthew under house arrest and the press camped outside of her home intent on depicting her as the real criminal, Brenda fights to balance work, the care of her youngest son, 8 year-old Jason, and to stay in control. When her estranged ex-husband turns up, intent on taking Jason away, Brenda is pushed to breaking point.

Set over the eight nights of the Jewish festival of Hannukah, Mother of Him by Evan Placey is about how far a mother’s love can stretch and at what cost.

Written by

Evan Placey

Director

Matthew Dunster

Producer

Ben Rix

Sound Engineer

Jerry Peal

Production Assistant

Kate Brook

Casting Director

Sue Needleman

Floor Runner

Nat Price

Cast

6 x 30 minute comedy
BBC Radio 4, 2012

Gloomsbury is an affectionate parody of the Bloomsbury group, whose arty and adulterous adventures dominated the cultural scene in the early 20th century. The series follows the fortunes of Vera Sackcloth-Vest, writer, gardener and transvestite, and her compulsive urge to escape from the tranquillity of her rather cramped little castle in Kent which she shares with her doting but ambiguous husband Henry who is something in the Foreign Office. Vera’s heart is forever surging with exotic passion for Ginny Fox, a neurasthenic novelist who adores her, or Venus Traduces, a naughty demi-mondaine. The Sapphic elopements of these privileged women reveal their inability to undertake the most basic domestic tasks: how to boil a kettle, for example, in a damp cottage in Zennor, is a challenge which stumps Vera and Ginny for hours. The misunderstandings, jealousies and rows of this coterie form the basis of the series. Glimpses of the group’s literary endeavours alternate with devoted letters which whiz between Vera and Henry, for whether he is in the Balkans or simply in the distant drawing room, a separation of a mere fifty yards is sometimes just too much to bear.

Written by

Sue Limb

Producer

Jamie Rix

Director

Jamie Rix

Cast

105 x 11 minute animation
Series 1-6: CITV, 2000-06
Series 7-8: Nickolodeon, 2011-13

Cautionary Tales for lovers of squeam.

Humorous, modern-day cautionary tales in which naughty children get their comeuppance. Rude tongues are trimmed, couch potatoes are baked into cheese and onion crisps, precious fashion victims are sent to school in their birthday suits, spider-torturers have webs spun around their ribs, and moaning minnies are minced into spaghetti when they don’t eat their food.

Written by

Jamie Rix (adapted from his own books)

Directors

Sara & Simon Bor

Jamie Rix

Producers

Sara & Simon Bor

Jamie Rix

Narrator

Nigel Planer

Awards

2012 Broadcast Awards


Winner of Best Children’s Program



2011 BAFTAs


Nominated for Best Animation

2006 BAFTAs

Jamie Rix nominated for Best Writer



2005 BAFTAs

Nominated for Best Children’s Series

Jamie Rix nominated for Most Original Writer



2004 BAFTAs


Nominated for Best Children’s Series

Jamie Rix nominated for Most Original Writer



2004 British Animation Awards


Winner of Best Children’s Series

Winner of The Children’s Choice Award



2001 The New York Festivals – TV Programming & Promotion Competition

Gold World Medal - Animation: Children’s Programs category



2001 Golden Sheaf Awards, Canada


Golden Sheaf Award for Best International Children’s Production



2000 Royal Television Society

Nominated for Best Children’s Entertainment programme



2000 RTS Devon & Cornwall Centre Awards


Best Network programme



2000 Bradford Animation Festival

Best TV Series for Children



2000 International Animation and Cartoons Festival, Italy

Best Short Film category (2nd place)



2000 Prix Jeunesse, Germany


Fiction 6 - 11 category (2nd place)



2000 Cartoons on the Bay, Italy

The Pulcinella Award for Best Series for Children



2000 Golden Gate Awards, USA

Silver Spire Award Winner in the Children’s Programmes category

13 x 30 minute comedy
CBBC, BBC1, BBC2, 2008-12

Based on the six books by Jamie Rix published by Random House in 2004/2005, The Revenge Files of Alistair Fury is a series of funny stories centred around the wild and immoderate revenge missions of an embittered boy, as he takes on his family, friends and everyone else in the world. He is the littlest in a family of five, last in line for everything good and first in line for everything bad. It’s about brothers and sisters getting more pocket money than you, about having the smallest bedroom in the house, about always getting the littlest portion at supper, about never watching a telly programme of your choice, about being ignored, about being the youngest – it’s about getting revenge for all that and more…

Written by

Jamie Rix

Daniel Peak

Gary Lawson & John Phelps

Paul Alexander

Katie Douglas

Producer

Jamie Rix

Director

Delyth Thomas

Nick Wood

Executive Producer

Jed Leventhall

Line Producer

Alan Fairholm

Cast

Awards

2008 BAFTAS

Winner of 2008 Children’s BAFTA (Drama)

26 x 5 minute animation
Disney Playhouse, 2005-8

Based on the classic 1980’s BBC series starring Kenneth Williams and written and directed by Nick Spargo. Join Willo the Wisp, our storyteller and nosy, old gossip in beautiful Doyley Woods, as he invites us to observe the antics of its principal residents - Mavis Cruet the too-fat-to-fly fairy and her best friends - Arthur the caterpillar, The Moog, a dim dog, Carwash the snooty cat and The Beast as they contemplate life, the universe and everything and do continual battle with Evil Edna the wicked, television-set witch and her horrid spells.

Written by

Jamie Rix

Producer

Jamie Rix

Bobbie Spargo

Sarah Muller

Director

Bobbie Spargo

Voiced by

James Dreyfus

60 x 1 minute animation
BBC, 2002-5

A series of short, funny and absurd animations for children of all ages.

Have you ever wondered how animals know how to behave? Is it nature or nurture? Well obviously it’s nurture, because nature leaves too much to chance. And that is where Animal School comes in. It is compulsory for every animal in the world, be they fish, reptiles, birds, mammals, insects, or amphibians to attend Animal School and learn how to behave like their parents and their parents before them and their parents before them…

Written by

Jamie Rix

Producer

Sarah Muller

Jamie Rix

Directors

Andy Wyatt

Jamie Rix

Voiced by

Nigel Planer

Morwenna Banks

90 x 1 minute animation
BBC, 2004-6

A series of short, funny, animated shorts featuring the pop stars of the day - Busted, McFly, The Cheeky Girls, Girls Aloud. It was broadcast in a high-profile slot on Top Of The Pops.

Written By

Trevor Neal

Simon Hickson

Producer

Carey Weich

Director

Andy Wyatt

1 x 30 minute animated comedy
Channel 4, 2000

Johnny Worms is a fourteen-year-old boy who has an eye for the girls. Unfortunately the girls don’t seem to have an eye for him. So he changes his name to Casanova in the hope that it will change his luck, but it doesn’t. Sex remains as elusive as ever. He has swallowed the image of a romantic lover as a caring, sensitive soul. He writes love poetry and learns the guitar to serenade the girls. He prinks and preens his sacred locks and dresses to kill, but can’t pluck up the courage to ask a girl out. He’s a mass of hormonal confusion, hopelessly in love with any girl who will give him the time of day. But it seems that the ones that do are never the ones he wants.

Written by

Jamie Rix

Producer

Jamie Rix

Sarah Muller

Director

Andy Wyatt

Featuring the voices of

Simon Pegg

Alison Steadman

Morwenna Banks

Doon Mackichan

Darren Boyd

Nigel Planer

1 x 30 minute animated comedy
Channel 4, 2000

Frankie Diamond is a criminal with a foul mouth and an even fouler family.

Created and written by

Ricky Grover

Producer

Jamie Rix

Director

Andy Wyatt

1 x 60 minute documentary
Channel 4, 1998

A psychedelic trawl through the mixed-up mind of Magic Roundabout creator Serge Danot by the world’s most famous hippy, Neil.

Presented by

Nigel Planer

Director

Nigel Cole

6 x 30 minute comedy
ITV, 1994

Jonathan and Libby Hughes are the Richard and Judy of their day… or rather their daytime TV show called Wake Up With… For two hours every morning they bill and coo their way through celebrity news, high-street fashion and cookery tips, to all the world a happily married couple. But when the credits roll the knives come out. Behind their loving public image lies venom, suffering and spite which comes from a relationship based on mutual gall.

Written by

Andrew Nickolds

Producer

Jamie Rix

Director

Jamie Rix

Cast