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Daisy Georgia Goodwin (born 19 December 1961) is an award-winning British television producer, poetry curator and best-selling novelist.
Having attended Westminster School in London and Queen's College, London, Goodwin studied history at Trinity College, Cambridge and attended Columbia Film School before joining the BBC as a trainee arts producer in 1985. In 1998 she moved to Talkback Productions as head of factual programmes, and in 2005 founded Silver River Productions. Her first novel, My Last Duchess, was published in the U.K. in August 2010 [1] and, under the title The American Heiress, in the U.S. and Canada in June 2011.[2] She has also published eight best-selling poetry anthologies and a memoir entitled Silver River, and was chair of the judging panel for the 2010 Orange Prize for women's fiction. [3] She has presented television shows including Essential Poems (To Fall In Love With) (2003) and Reader, I Married Him (2006). [4]
Daisy Goodwin is married to Marcus Wilford, an ABC TV executive, and has two daughters. [5]
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Production credits
BBC
- The Bookworm (1994)
- Looking Good (1997)
- Homefront
Talkback
Between 1998 and 2005 Goodwin worked as a producer or editor on shows including:
- How Clean Is Your House? (Channel 4)
- Jamie's Kitchen (Channel 4)
- Would Like To Meet (BBC2)
- House Doctor (Channel 5)
- Grand Designs (Channel4)
- Other People's Houses (Channel 4)
- Your Money or Your Life (BBC2)
- Property Ladder (Channel 4)
- Life Doctor (Channel 5)
- Life Laundry (BBC2)
- Fame, Set and Match (BBC2)
- Escape to the Country (BBC2)
- She's Gotta Have It (Channel 4)
- Don't Look Down (BBC2)
- Lipstick Years (BBC2)
Silver River
- Pulling (2006)
- I'm Running Sainsbury's (2009)
- Supersizers Go... Series (2008 and 2009)
- Off By Heart (2009)
- Grow Your Own Drugs - Series 1 & 2 (2009)
- Kevin's Grand Tour (2009)
- If Walls Could Talk: The History of the Home (2011)
Publications
- My Last Duchess (2010), published in the U.S. and Canada as The American Heiress (2011)
- Off by Heart (2009)
- Silver River (2007)
- Bringing Up Baby: The New Mother's Companion (2007)
- Essential Poems for the Way We Live Now (2005)
- Essential Poems for Children: First Aid for Frantic Parents (2005)
- Poems to Last a Lifetime (2004)
- Essential Poems to Fall in Love With (2003)
- 101 Poems That Could Save Your Life (2003)
- 101 Poems to Get You Through the Day and Night: A Survival Kit for Modern Life (2003)
- 101 Poems to Keep You Sane: Emergency Rations for the Seriously Stressed (2003)
- 101 Poems To Help You Understand Men (and Women) (2003)
- The Nation's Favourite: Love Poems (1997)
References
- ^ Rennison, Nick (August 29th, 2010). "A class act". The Sunday Times Culture: p. 49.
- ^ Janet Maslin (June 26th, 2011). "Books of the Times: Money May Not Buy You Love, but It Might Help You Land a Spouse". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/27/books/the-american-heiress-by-daisy-goodwin-review.html?scp=1&sq=THE%20AMERICAN%20HEIRESS&st=cse.
- ^ Arifa Akbar (March 17th, 2010). "Spare me the misery lit, says Orange Prize judge". The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/spare-me-the-misery-lit-says-orange-prize-judge-1922360.html.
- ^ David Brockman (March 14th, 2003, last modified January 10th, 2009). "Poetry in motion". Transdiffusion. http://www.transdiffusion.org/emc/behindthescreens/poetry.php. Retrieved 2010-09-12.
- ^ Duff, Oliver (June 6 2005). "Daisy Goodwin: My Life In Media". London: The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/daisy-goodwin-my-life-in-media-493160.html. Retrieved April 30, 2010.
External links
Categories:- Living people
- British television producers
- Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
- 1961 births
- Old Westminsters
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