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About us
Screenhouse is a production company proudly based in Leeds, with content produced and broadcast nationally and internationally. Our training uses our decades of experience to equip experts with essential media and communication skills.
Award-winning producers
We’ve now worked for all the main UK channels and Discovery in the US, and across many genres, and are developing dramas. We find the heart in any story, and specialise in making it work for a big, broad audience.
We started as specialists in science and history, mainly for the BBC. Shows included the legendary Local Heroes with Adam Hart-Davis on BBC2, which changed the face of science on TV. We have pulled off some epic experiments and stunts – we held the world record for passing an electric current through a human electric circuit!
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training
We have been media trainers to The Royal Society in London, and have also trained many hundreds of experts and academics to communicate better, in organisations up and down the UK, and Europe, with a particular focus on Oxford and Cambridge.
In around 2008, our training sprang from our TV experience: we found that many experts have no communication training at all, and knew that our background making programmes about complex ideas could help.
Now, presentation and media skills have become essential to experts needing to communicate their message, and we work with a brilliant team of trainers and Britain’s top science communicators.
Barbara Govan CEO
Barbara was a journalist and on-screen reporter at ITV in Yorkshire, before becoming a network documentary producer. She joined Screenhouse where she now spearheads training and new programmes.
Paul Bader Creative Director
Paul is a former scientist, who got into television to make science programmes, initially at ITV. He set up Screenhouse in 1991, and is executive producer on most of our broadcast and online content.