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Article: Great TV production breathing life into our region ; In the latest of the Evening Post/ Regional Development Agency Bites Back series, CHRIS GARCIA, head of digital and creative industries at the South West RDA, outlines how the region's creative industries have continued to drive the South West economy throughout the downturn
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- Evening Post (Bristol UK)
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- October 12, 2009
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SOME breathtaking footage of the natural world will again grace
our TV screens this week, as the BBC launches its latest natural
history series, Life.
Narrated by Sir David Attenborough, it is the kind of TV that
makes you feel proud to be in Bristol and the West Country.
It is this type of cutting edge production that we're working
hard to support at the South West RDA. The 10-week long series,
which took four years to make, was produced by the BBC Natural
History Unit in Bristol.
TV production on this scale not only helps to cement the BBC's
presence in the South West, but has a huge knock-on effect to the
creative industry sector across the region.
It offers opportunities to independent ...