Anne Wood

For those of a similar name, see Ann Wood (disambiguation).
Anne Wood
CBE
Born (1937-12-01) 1 December 1937
Spennymoor, England
Occupation Children's TV producer

Anne Wood CBE (born 1 December 1937) is an English children’s television producer, responsible for co-creating Teletubbies with Andrew Davenport.

She was born in Spennymoor, County Durham, England, and grew up in Tudhoe Colliery, a small coal-mining village nearby.[1]

Teaching

She qualified as a secondary school teacher through the Bingley Training College in Yorkshire and took up her first teaching post back home in Spennymoor. She married Barrie Wood in 1959 and moved to Surbiton in Surrey where she took up a teaching role at Hollyfield Road Secondary School.

This was the era of the first children’s paperback book and Anne became an early pioneer of a children’s paperback book club scheme for schools set up by Scholastic Publications. She retired from teaching on the birth of her daughter and was taken on by Scholastic as editor of their Children’s Book Club.

Children’s books

When the Wood family moved to Byfleet in Surrey, she expanded her interest in how books and children’s development could be brought together. In 1965 she founded and edited a quarterly magazine Books for Your Children, a publication aimed at parents, teachers and librarians and fully supported by children’s publishers. Initially the UK Arts Council supported the magazine with a small financial grant. As a further promotion of children’s books in 1969 Wood set up the Federation of Children's Book Groups, an organisation still in existence today. Also in 1969 in recognition of her contribution to the promotion of children’s books Wood was awarded the Eleanor Farjeon Award.[1]

Television producer

  1. Tyne Tees Television for ITV 1977 Puzzle Party hosted by Gyles Brandreth and featuring Gnigel the Gnu!
  2. Yorkshire Television for ITV 1979 – 1983 5 series of The Book Tower, a programme aimed at stimulating children’s interest in books. Hosts included Tom Baker and Stephen Moore. Winner of a Children's BAFTA in 1979[2] and 1982. Winner Prix Jeunesse 1980. 1982–1987 Three series of Ragdolly Anna based on the children’s books by Jean Kenward. Innovative technology brought the ragdoll to life. The series starred Pat Coombs as the dressmaker owner of the ragdoll.
  3. Head of Children’s Programmes for TV-AM. In April 1983 introduced Roland Rat a character created by David Claridge in The Spectacular Shedvision Show. The series is generally regarded as the saviour of the ailing breakfast television service. Roland took the audience from 100,000 to 1.8 million. Wood produced six further series, Rat on the Road (1983), Roland’s Winter Wonderland (1983). filmed in Switzerland, Roland Goes East (1984), filmed in Hong Kong, Rat on the Road II (1984), Operation Fog I (1984), Roland’s Countdown to Christmas (1984). Concurrent with Roland Rat Wood produced a Sunday morning series Rub a Dub Tub – a magazine-style one-hour programme for very young children. It began transmission in February 1983.
  4. Ragdoll Productions (UK) Limited: Wood founded her own independent children’s television production company in 1984.
  5. DHX Media (UK) Limited: Wood founded her own independent children's television production company in 2013.
Productions (with first transmission years)

Awards

Personal

Productions For Yorkshire TV

Productions As Ragdoll Productions

Brum

Rosie and Jim

Magic Mirror

Tots TV

Open a Door

Badjelly the Witch

Teletubbies

Teletubbies Everywhere

Boohbah

What Makes me Happy

In the Night Garden

Dipdap

References

  1. 1 2 Meg Carter. "Interview: Anne Wood, the co-creator of the Teletubbies | Society". Guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  2. ↑ "BAFTA Television Awards". Bafta.org. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Meg Carter. "Interview: Anne Wood, the co-creator of the Teletubbies | Society". Guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  4. ↑ "RTS Fellows | Royal Television Society". Rts.org.uk. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  5. ↑ William, Helen (2000-11-13). "Baftas reward the best of children's TV - Media - News". Independent.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  6. ↑ "Broadcasting Press Guild". Broadcastingpressguild.org. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  7. ↑ Loveday, Samantha (2010-11-22). "Ragdoll's Anne Wood honoured at Mother & Baby Awards | Latest news from the licensing industry". Licensing.biz. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  8. ↑ "Honorary graduates - University of Birmingham". Birmingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  9. ↑ "BAFTA Children's Awards". Bafta.org. 2014-11-11. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  10. ↑ "BAFTA Children's Awards". Bafta.org. 2014-11-11. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  11. ↑ Archived 5 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ↑ Archived 22 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  13. ↑ "BAFTA Children's Awards". Bafta.org. 2014-11-11. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  14. ↑
  15. 1 2 "Prix Jeunesse 2014 Prize winners" (PDF). Prixjeunesse.de. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  16. ↑ "BAFTA Children's Awards". Bafta.org. 2014-11-11. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  17. ↑ "BAFTA Children's Awards". Bafta.org. 2014-11-11. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  18. ↑ Archived 7 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  19. ↑ "BAFTA Children's Awards". Bafta.org. 2014-11-11. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  20. 1 2 3 "2008 Winners | The Licensing Awards 2010". Thelicensingawards.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  21. ↑ Archived 26 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine

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