Woven Threads: Conversations with Costume Designers
What does a Costume Designer really do?Are they the ones that make the clothes? What's their relationship with the director and the actors? Why is it more complex than just making people look pretty?
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The Amy Roberts episode (opens the original)
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Amy and I chat about the particular kind of creativity of working in costume - that it's about being a responder rather than working "from a blank" - and the lively life it leads to. Greatest hits: Seven Dials (2026) H is for Hawk (2025) The Crown series 3 - 6 Prime Suspect 1970s (2017) Swallows and Amazons (2016) Jamaica Inn (2014) The Tunnel (2013) Call the Midwife - first series (2012) Mrs Biggs (2012) Upstairs Downstairs (2010) Margot (2009) Wuthering Heights - the Tom Hardy one (2009) The V
The Pam Downe episode (opens the original)
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Pam and I had a conversation that kept coming back to the idea of working with other people: how to approach organising a team and how you all relate to the other departments Greatest hits: Dr Who (2023-5) Funny Woman (2022) Mr Malcolm's List (2022) The Spanish Princess (2020) The English Game (2020) The Trial of Christine Keeler (2019) Agatha Raisin (2016) The Enfield Haunting (2015) Episodes (2011) Lark Rise to Candleford (2008) NY-LON (2004) Guest House Paradiso (1999) Hosted on Acast. See ac
The Ian Fulcher episode (opens the original)
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Ian speaks interestingly here about how his knowledge of period costume informs his contemporary design, and about how he is both fluid and organised. Greatest hits: Unchosen (2026) Black Doves (2024) A Very British Scandal (2021) It's a Sin (2021) Giri/ Haji (2019) Kiri (2018) The Last Dragonslayer (2016) Murdered by My Boyfriend (2014) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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