Poliakoff was born in the Holland Park district in west London to Anglo Jewish and Russian Jewish parents, Ina (née Montagu), and Russian born Alexander Poliakoff. The second of four children, he was sent at a young age to boarding school, which he hated. He then proceeded to Westminster School where he attracted sufficient attention for Granny, a play written and directed by him, to be reviewed in The Times newspaper. After Westminster, he went to King's College, Cambridge but never took a degree.
Poliakoff continued to write stage plays, becoming writer-in-residence for the National Theatre at the age of 24, but he became increasingly interested in the medium of television, with Stronger Than the Sun (1977 – BBC1Play for Today), Bloody Kids (1980 – ATV), Caught on a Train (1980 – BBC2Playhouse) starring Peggy Ashcroft, and Soft Targets (1982 – Play for Today). There were also TV adaptations of his stage plays Hitting Town (1976 – Thames Television/ITVPlay for Britain) and City Sugar (1978 – Scottish Television / ITV The Sunday Drama).
Writer and director Stephen Poliakoff is in conversation with Geoffrey Colman, discussing his career and his recent BBC television series 'Dancing on the Edge'.
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published: 14 Mar 2013
BFI & Radio Times TV Festival 2019 | Keeley Hawes and Stephen Poliakoff on Summer of Rockets
The cast and crew of Summer of Rockets talk about the BBC drama.
Stephen Poliakoff’s arresting drama sees the multi-award-winning writer-director turn his attention to Cold War Britain, where Toby Stephens plays Samuel, a Russian Jewish émigré tasked by MI5 with uncovering the secret lives of his charming new friends Kathleen Shaw (Keeley Hawes), her MP husband Richard Shaw (Linus Roache) and the imperious Lord Arthur Wallington (Timothy Spall). As Samuel’s life becomes more and more intertwined with his mission, how far is he willing to let things unravel for his cause? And who can he trust?
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published: 23 May 2019
Five Minutes With: Stephen Poliakoff
In a series for the BBC News website, Celebrities and news-makers are grilled by Matthew Stadlen in precisely five minutes.
published: 10 Nov 2013
Play for Today - Stronger Than the Sun (1978) by Stephen Poliakoff & Michael Apted FULL FILM
Kate works in the nuclear industry. She is concerned about the way things are being run. So she smuggles out some Plutonium to prove how easy it is. She tries to pass it on to protest groups, but nobody is interested as they have their own agendas.
published: 29 Aug 2022
Stephen Poliakoff Season trail
A trail for Joe's Palace and Capturing Mary.
Broadcast Sunday 21st October 2007
published: 25 May 2024
Stephen Poliakoff - "Wilderness of Russia" photo exhibition
Stephen Poliakoff, British filmmaker, scriptwright, WWF UK Ambassador, as well as the jury member for the Russian Film Week - Synergy University Student Short Film Competition talks about the importance of supporting Amur Tiger and other endangered species during the "Wilderness of Russia" photo exhibition hosted by Rossotrudnichestvo - Russia in the United Kingdom.
published: 12 Sep 2017
Century (Stephen Poliakoff 1993)
Clive Owen, Miranda Richardson and Charles Dance star in Stephen Poliakoff's 1993 feature about a progressive doctor in turn of the Century Britain.
Apologies for the less than ideal video & audio quality.
published: 23 Feb 2019
Shooting The Past - trailer
Trailer for Shooting The Past from 10th January 1999
published: 30 Dec 2015
Wembley To Soweto Stephen Poliakoff Interview
Wembley To Soweto Stephen Poliakoff Interview
published: 14 Feb 2012
Ruth Wilson and Stephen Poliakoff on BBC Breakfast
Interview about the forthcoming transmissions of "A Real Summer" and "Capturing Mary" BBC Breakfast Nov 7th 2007
Writer and director Stephen Poliakoff is in conversation with Geoffrey Colman, discussing his career and his recent BBC television series 'Dancing on the Edge'....
Writer and director Stephen Poliakoff is in conversation with Geoffrey Colman, discussing his career and his recent BBC television series 'Dancing on the Edge'.
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Writer and director Stephen Poliakoff is in conversation with Geoffrey Colman, discussing his career and his recent BBC television series 'Dancing on the Edge'.
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The cast and crew of Summer of Rockets talk about the BBC drama.
Stephen Poliakoff’s arresting drama sees the multi-award-winning writer-director turn his att...
The cast and crew of Summer of Rockets talk about the BBC drama.
Stephen Poliakoff’s arresting drama sees the multi-award-winning writer-director turn his attention to Cold War Britain, where Toby Stephens plays Samuel, a Russian Jewish émigré tasked by MI5 with uncovering the secret lives of his charming new friends Kathleen Shaw (Keeley Hawes), her MP husband Richard Shaw (Linus Roache) and the imperious Lord Arthur Wallington (Timothy Spall). As Samuel’s life becomes more and more intertwined with his mission, how far is he willing to let things unravel for his cause? And who can he trust?
Summer of Rockets is available on the BBC IPlayer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/group/p078h648
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The cast and crew of Summer of Rockets talk about the BBC drama.
Stephen Poliakoff’s arresting drama sees the multi-award-winning writer-director turn his attention to Cold War Britain, where Toby Stephens plays Samuel, a Russian Jewish émigré tasked by MI5 with uncovering the secret lives of his charming new friends Kathleen Shaw (Keeley Hawes), her MP husband Richard Shaw (Linus Roache) and the imperious Lord Arthur Wallington (Timothy Spall). As Samuel’s life becomes more and more intertwined with his mission, how far is he willing to let things unravel for his cause? And who can he trust?
Summer of Rockets is available on the BBC IPlayer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/group/p078h648
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Kate works in the nuclear industry. She is concerned about the way things are being run. So she smuggles out some Plutonium to prove how easy it is. She tries t...
Kate works in the nuclear industry. She is concerned about the way things are being run. So she smuggles out some Plutonium to prove how easy it is. She tries to pass it on to protest groups, but nobody is interested as they have their own agendas.
Kate works in the nuclear industry. She is concerned about the way things are being run. So she smuggles out some Plutonium to prove how easy it is. She tries to pass it on to protest groups, but nobody is interested as they have their own agendas.
Stephen Poliakoff, British filmmaker, scriptwright, WWF UK Ambassador, as well as the jury member for the Russian Film Week - Synergy University Student Short F...
Stephen Poliakoff, British filmmaker, scriptwright, WWF UK Ambassador, as well as the jury member for the Russian Film Week - Synergy University Student Short Film Competition talks about the importance of supporting Amur Tiger and other endangered species during the "Wilderness of Russia" photo exhibition hosted by Rossotrudnichestvo - Russia in the United Kingdom.
Stephen Poliakoff, British filmmaker, scriptwright, WWF UK Ambassador, as well as the jury member for the Russian Film Week - Synergy University Student Short Film Competition talks about the importance of supporting Amur Tiger and other endangered species during the "Wilderness of Russia" photo exhibition hosted by Rossotrudnichestvo - Russia in the United Kingdom.
Clive Owen, Miranda Richardson and Charles Dance star in Stephen Poliakoff's 1993 feature about a progressive doctor in turn of the Century Britain.
Apologies f...
Clive Owen, Miranda Richardson and Charles Dance star in Stephen Poliakoff's 1993 feature about a progressive doctor in turn of the Century Britain.
Apologies for the less than ideal video & audio quality.
Clive Owen, Miranda Richardson and Charles Dance star in Stephen Poliakoff's 1993 feature about a progressive doctor in turn of the Century Britain.
Apologies for the less than ideal video & audio quality.
Writer and director Stephen Poliakoff is in conversation with Geoffrey Colman, discussing his career and his recent BBC television series 'Dancing on the Edge'.
www.ica.org.uk
The cast and crew of Summer of Rockets talk about the BBC drama.
Stephen Poliakoff’s arresting drama sees the multi-award-winning writer-director turn his attention to Cold War Britain, where Toby Stephens plays Samuel, a Russian Jewish émigré tasked by MI5 with uncovering the secret lives of his charming new friends Kathleen Shaw (Keeley Hawes), her MP husband Richard Shaw (Linus Roache) and the imperious Lord Arthur Wallington (Timothy Spall). As Samuel’s life becomes more and more intertwined with his mission, how far is he willing to let things unravel for his cause? And who can he trust?
Summer of Rockets is available on the BBC IPlayer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/group/p078h648
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Kate works in the nuclear industry. She is concerned about the way things are being run. So she smuggles out some Plutonium to prove how easy it is. She tries to pass it on to protest groups, but nobody is interested as they have their own agendas.
Stephen Poliakoff, British filmmaker, scriptwright, WWF UK Ambassador, as well as the jury member for the Russian Film Week - Synergy University Student Short Film Competition talks about the importance of supporting Amur Tiger and other endangered species during the "Wilderness of Russia" photo exhibition hosted by Rossotrudnichestvo - Russia in the United Kingdom.
Clive Owen, Miranda Richardson and Charles Dance star in Stephen Poliakoff's 1993 feature about a progressive doctor in turn of the Century Britain.
Apologies for the less than ideal video & audio quality.
Poliakoff was born in the Holland Park district in west London to Anglo Jewish and Russian Jewish parents, Ina (née Montagu), and Russian born Alexander Poliakoff. The second of four children, he was sent at a young age to boarding school, which he hated. He then proceeded to Westminster School where he attracted sufficient attention for Granny, a play written and directed by him, to be reviewed in The Times newspaper. After Westminster, he went to King's College, Cambridge but never took a degree.
Poliakoff continued to write stage plays, becoming writer-in-residence for the National Theatre at the age of 24, but he became increasingly interested in the medium of television, with Stronger Than the Sun (1977 – BBC1Play for Today), Bloody Kids (1980 – ATV), Caught on a Train (1980 – BBC2Playhouse) starring Peggy Ashcroft, and Soft Targets (1982 – Play for Today). There were also TV adaptations of his stage plays Hitting Town (1976 – Thames Television/ITVPlay for Britain) and City Sugar (1978 – Scottish Television / ITV The Sunday Drama).
You can listen to the entire conversation via the audio player above or read a lightly edited transcript of it below ...Thank you. On this podcast, we go right back to the very beginning ... It was a really great writer-director, Stephen Poliakoff ... Amazing.
... isn’t great, it retains a confident power to intrigue There is great archival and historical interest to the 1987 feature film debut of writer-director Stephen Poliakoff, which now on re-release.
The Oscar-nominated actress began her screen career in the UK on television, with her breakthrough role coming in Stephen Poliakoff’s 2006TV movieGideon’s Daughter...It’s an assured, humorous turn that will delight allSponsored. Film ... ... .
The spectacle of Lindsay Duncan being not nice – selfish or truculent or evil to her core – will never get old ... I speak to her by Zoom ... Photograph ... It’s so plain to see why she was such a favourite actor of Alan Bleasdale, of Stephen Poliakoff ... .
‘The impact he had on my life, and others’, was profound’. Daniel Craig, actor. Learning of Michael’s death was a shock ... Read more ... Years later, in only my second or third television job, we played father and son in Stephen Poliakoff’s Perfect Strangers.
I was playing a hotel employee and, my claim to fame, was directed by Stephen Poliakoff to laugh at a joke as he gave a speech at a scene set at a family wedding reception.
Ciara Charteris quit the acting industry for good in 2018 (Picture. BBC) ... BBC) ... After quitting to work on the Stephen Poliakoff series Close to the Enemy, the Poison Tress actress claimed she sent the drama school a letter voicing her concerns ... Getty).
. Pick of the Day ... Before a screening of She’s Been Away, there’s a ten-minute intro where the writer Stephen Poliakoff looks back at this 1989 drama, which was directed by Peter Hall and featured the final appearance of Peggy Ashcroft (below) ... .
Yes, Rose Ayling-Ellis remembers the first time she saw the choreography for that Strictly dance. Her “couple’s choice” routine for the competition’s 2021 grand final ... shiiiiit ... “Then the BBC were looking for a deaf actor for a Stephen Poliakoff drama ... .
