NEWS

HRH The Prince of Wales's tribute to HM The Queen on the occasion of her Diamond Jubilee is currently in production.  A Jubilee Tribute to The Queen, featuring previously unseen material from The Queen's private collection of photographs and cine film, will launch the Jubilee coverage on BBC One on Friday 1st June at 8.30pm

Rostropovich: The Genius of the Cello is being repeated on BBC Four on Friday 8 June.  It was recently nominated for a BAFTA Craft Award for Sound (Factual).  This nomination resulted from the votes of BAFTA members.  Sound recordist Paul Paragon, Sound designer Samuel Santana and Dubbing Mixer Tom O'Pray were the nominees.

This follows the film's achievement in Prague last autumn, when it won the Dagmar and Vaclav Havel Foundation Award at the 2011 Golden Prague Television Festival.

The Prague citation says: 'This documentary of the British director John Bridcut creates a deep, human submergence into the personality and the art of the great Russian violoncellist Mstislav Rostropovich.  The film is interestingly enriched with the selected archive materials and, above all, with the spontaneous testimony of his friends, family and former pupils.  A very expressive and compelling portrait of one of the greatest artists the 20th century has produced.'  This follows critical praise after its first broadcast, when it was described as 'a towering model of its kind'.

At the end of May, BBC Worldwide will be issuing The Prince and the Composer on DVD.  This acclaimed portrait of the composer Hubert Parry by HRH The Prince of Wales will be available from the end of May.

Elgar: The Man Behind the Mask won a nomination for the 2011 Grierson Award for Best Arts Documentary.  The film has already been given the Czech Crystal Award for Best Documentary at the Golden Prague Festival, where the judges praised "a beautifully-crafted film", and has also won a BAFTA Craft Award for Sound.