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BAFTA, Emmy and RTS award winning tv/film composer

Northern London
Joined January 2009
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Simon Russell retweeted
Time to stop using @WeTransfer who from 8th August have decided they'll own anything you transfer to power AI
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Join Sir #michaelpalin, @mickulus Professor Julie Brown & @EvanHD on Tuesday 11 June at the @rgs_ibg to explore the story of ‘The Affair of the Dancing Lamas’. tinyurl.com/dancing-lamas #Everest1924 #Everest #Tibet #FTRoTW #DancingLamas #Tibetmania!
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The @spraticus scored ‘Art’s Widest Movement: Mannerism’ premieres tonight at 8pm on Sky Arts. Art Historian Waldemar Januszczak explores the style of 16th century European art in which the human imagination was allowed to run wild and be exciting.
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Congratulations to ‘Mariupol: The People's Story,’ winner for Best TV Feature Documentary or Mini-Series at the 39th IDA Documentary Awards. #idaDocAwards
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Composer Simon Russell (@spraticus) took home the Music Original Score award in the Non-scripted category at last night’s Craft & Design Awards. In an exclusive interview, he talks scoring the Troubles, subtlety, and not going to music school rts.org.uk/article/when-it-c…
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Today marks six years since the Grenfell Tower fire. 72 lives lost and yet 72 months on, there's still no justice. Today, as always, we stand in solidarity with the community and echo their calls for those responsible to be held to account. #GrenfellNeverAgain #72Months72Lives
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Tonight on @bbctwo at 9pm. Episode one of Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland, a new five-part series sharing intimate and unheard stories from The Troubles. Made by the team behind the BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning Once Upon a Time in Iraq. #onceuponatimeinnorthernireland
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From the makers of Once Upon A Time In Iraq - the new series Once Upon A Time In Northern Ireland, which hears from people who lived through The Troubles, will air on @BBCiPlayer @BBCTwo @BBCnireland on Mon 22 May, 9pm. In partnership with @OpenUniversity bbc.in/3O1xWfl
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JUST IN ➡️"Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland," a new docuseries about the people who lived through the Troubles, will premiere on @PBS in May. Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland is a @KEOfilms and @woafilms co-production, distributed by @BBCStudios. bit.ly/3MnrZZl
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Simon Russell retweeted
10pm tonight: BBC Four and @BBCiPlayer screen Tango With Putin, a film about Russia’s only independent TV station, Dohzd, reporting from Ukraine. Yesterday, the Russian authorities shut the station down & banned the film from Russian cinemas. The BBC will screen the film today.

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F@CK THIS JOB, The Guardian 4 stars, please read it, I am so proud of this film. @CentralPictureH @picturehouses @jesssearch @RitzyCinema theguardian.com/film/2022/fe…
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Doc Soc supported film 'F@CK THIS JOB' by @krichevskaya has just won the Audience Award at @WarsawIFF - with standing ovations! 👏Congratulations to the team and find a way to watch here: fckthisjob.net/ #37wff
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The #DocEmmys Award for Outstanding Historical Documentary goes to "Once Upon A Time In Iraq," @PBS @frontlinepbs.
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So here are a few freebie codes for my new EP. For those of you who might like a bit of #ambient #electronic #newmusic :-) b4bc-bplz 5sxc-wf5g 8jcq-can3 tbhf-wbp4 2acx-cc7a soniklab.bandcamp.com/yum Many thanks for all the kind words and support and feel free to RT. Ta Rob
Delighted to release my new EP! M2TtN now available on Bandcamp. :-) Ill give some codes away soon..once I have worked out how they bloody work :-p #newmusic #ambient #electronica soniklab.bandcamp.com/album/…
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Simon Russell retweeted
We are absolutely delighted to say that Once Upon a Time in Iraq just won the @BAFTA for Factual Series. A huge congratulations to the amazing team that worked on this and, as James mentioned in his speech, the incredible contributors who told their incredibly personal stories.
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Congratulations to Robin, Gesh, and Guy for third Bafta nomination in a row. Possibly a record. And thanks to C4 for quick decisions and support. bafta.org/television/awards/…
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Simon Russell retweeted
Incredibly pleased to say Once Upon a Time in Iraq has been nominated for four BAFTAs! Huge credit to the whole team, and to James Bluemel, Anna Price and Will Grayburn for their individual nominations. news.sky.com/story/bafta-tv-…
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Simon Russell retweeted
Tonight is the final episode of #Pandemic2020 with stories from Delhi, Louisiana, East London and an indigenous community in the Amazon. @BBCTwo - 9pm. With all episodes available on iPlayer.
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