Roger Singleton-Turner

Roger Singleton-Turner
Occupation(s)	Television director, producer and educator
Employer	University of Sunderland

Roger Singleton-Turner is a British television director, known for a number of series including The Demon Headmaster for the BBC.

Directing

Singleton-Turner began his directing career in 1974 on the long-running story-telling programme, Jackanory . He continued to direct for the series until its end in 1996, as well as adapting many books, including Winnie the Pooh , Treasure Island and The Hobbit .

He was the second director ever to work on the long-running iconic children's drama Grange Hill . He directed around 25 episodes in all, for which he won a BAFTA for Best Children's Programme in 1980, along with executive producer Anna Home.

Singleton-Turner also directed 1991's Watt on Earth. In 1996, he directed The Demon Headmaster , arguably his best-known work, short-listed for BAFTA, the RTS and the Prix Jeunesse in 1997.

His other works include Gruey & and Gruey Twoey by Martin Riley, Happy Families , Mortimer and Arabel , The Wild House and CITV's Welcome to orty-Fou for Carlton Television. He produced and co-directed, with Steve Wright, series 3 and 4 of The Ark commissioned by ITV Factual from Granada Kids, transmitted in 2004.

Singleton-Turner has trained other directors at the BBC and has taught on various courses at different Universities in the UK and Thailand. He has recently spent a lot of his time at the University of Sunderland, where he taught TV Studio modules.

Books

Singleton-Turner wrote: Cue & Cut (2011), Television and Children (1994), Continuity Notes (1988) and Children Acting on Television (1999). He was also a contributor to Dad's Army - Walmington goes to War (2001, edited by Richard Webber).

External links

• Roger Singleton-Turner at IMDb
• Roger Singleton-Turner at the BBC Comedy Guide