Sarah Aspinall
Sarah Aspinall is a British writer and documentary filmmaker. Born in Southport, Lancashire, she spent some of her early years travelling the world with her single mother, the story which formed her memoir[1], and has since directed and produced a number of shows, including the BAFTA-nominated miniseries, Leonardo.
Career[edit]
Aspinall has a degree in English literature from London University and lived in Barcelona and New York in her early twenties before returning to London to train as a journalist and film maker. In the 1980’s she presented Channel 4’s weekly current affairs series Diverse Reports, then moved to BBC’s investigative series Taking Liberties, which championed victims of injustice. She then directed and produced Channel 4’s arts and culture programme The Media Show before joining the BBC’s Arts Department as a producer and director where she was involved in many highly acclaimed arts documentaries and drama documentaries, including Omnibus, Bookmark, Close Up, Art that Shook the World and Imagine.
Her film, J D Salinger Doesn't Want to Talk on literary recluse JD Salinger included interviews with the writer's friends and neighbours who had never spoken out about him before. Similarly, The Coen Brothers was the only documentary made about the film makers with their full cooperation. In 2003 she directed two episodes of Leonardo with actor Mark Rylance, which dramatized the life of the great artist, inventor and scientist.
She lived in Los Angeles from 2004 to 2007 and studied writing at UCLA. In recent years she has made a number of films for BBC, C4 and Sky TV including a feature documentary on the Windscale reactor which uncovered the facts behind the disaster, and several arts documentaries on writers, musicians and artists. These include Festival Tales[2], about the history of the Edinburgh Festival; The Erotic Adventures of Anais Nin[3] and further Imagine episodes, about Philip Roth (2014) and Rod Stewart[4] (2013).
Her debut book, Diamonds at the Lost and Found: A Memoir in Search of My Mother[5] was published in 2020.
Personal life[edit]
Aspinall has a daughter by lawyer Robert Robinson, and two children and a stepdaughter with film director Bill Eagles. Since 2011 she has lived with Robbie Harris, a Scottish designer and maker. She lives in Notting Hill and Winchelsea Beach, East Sussex.
References[edit]
- ↑ Jarvis, Alice-Azania. "Diamonds at the Lost and Found by Sarah Aspinall review — my mother, the gallivanter". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2021-06-16.
- ↑ Pearson, Catherine. "What's on TV this weekend". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2021-06-16.
- ↑ Media, I. W. C. (2021-06-15). "The Erotic Adventures of Anais Nin". IWC Media. Retrieved 2021-06-16.
- ↑ "BBC One - imagine..., Summer 2013, Rod Stewart: Can't Stop Me Now". BBC. Retrieved 2021-06-16.
- ↑ Aspinall, Sarah (2020-07-24). "'I feared my crazy upbringing would affect my own children'". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2021-06-16.
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