John Bridcut MVO is an English documentary filmmaker. Bridcut was educated at Radley College and Keble College, Oxford, obtaining a MA in literae humaniores (classics) in 1971. He is an honorary fellow of Keble College. [1]
In 1975 he joined the BBC as a news trainee, and worked on news and current affairs programmes for twelve years. Since then he has been an independent producer, mainly working through his own company, Crux Productions. [1]
Bridcut is best known for his films about British composers. His most famous work, Britten's Children (2004), is a study of the influence that Benjamin Britten's close relationships with children had on the composer and material from the documentary was later made into a book (2006). [2]
He has also created documentaries about Ralph Vaughan Williams (The Passions of Vaughan Williams, 2008), Edward Elgar (The Man Behind the Mask, 2010) and Hubert Parry ( The Prince and the Composer , 2011), the latter a collaboration with Charles, Prince of Wales, whom he had earlier profiled in Charles at 60: The Passionate Prince. In November 2018, after being given 12 months exclusive access to Charles, Prince of Wales, Bridcut's film Prince, Son and Heir: Charles at 70 was first aired by the BBC. Other documentaries by Bridcut include studies of Queen Elizabeth II, Michael Tippett, Rudolf Nureyev, Roald Dahl and Hillary Clinton. [2] [3]
In 2012, Bridcut was made a Member of the Royal Victorian Order. [4]
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