{"id":13665,"date":"2020-08-28T10:18:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T14:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bob-baldwins-wireless-operator-set-tv-feature\/"},"modified":"2020-08-28T11:10:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T15:10:43","slug":"bob-baldwins-wireless-operator-set-for-tv-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bob-baldwins-wireless-operator-set-for-tv-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Baldwin&#8217;s Wireless Operator Set for TV-Movie Adaptation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grand River Productions has joined forces with The Bridge for a television feature adaptation of Bob Baldwin and Max Kinnings\u2019 original stage play <em>Wireless Operator<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A look at the experiences of the WW2 Bomber Command, whose role in attacks on civilians made their service in the war a shameful secret, <em>Wireless Operator<\/em> is inspired by the wartime experiences and subsequent un-diagnosed PTSD of Baldwin\u2019s own father. The production will be donating a percentage of profits to Combat Stress, a U.K. charity for veterans\u2019 mental health.<\/p>\n<p>The TV movie will closely follow the action of the play, charting one Wireless Operator\u2019s experiences in battle in a claustrophobic Lancaster Bomber. The feature will be produced by Grand River\u2019s Jamie Brown in association with financier Amanda Groom of The Bridge. Rob Cowie (<em>The Blair Witch Project<\/em>) will offer support and guidance as needed to the project.<\/p>\n<p>Jamie Brown, CEO of Grand River Productions, said: \u201cIn developing this project, we have worked closely with Bob Baldwin and Max Kinnings. I have been struck by their immense talent and flexibility in all of their work with us, and the way they work so positively and respectfully. Bob has a very keen sense of design and editing, and I know that he will make this a powerful production.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bob Baldwin, co-writer and director, added: \u201cThis film is a portrait of an honorable young man, who in good faith participated in acts that history has judged truly appalling. The story was inspired by my own father\u2019s writing, which revealed how psychologically complex this war had been and the extent of the trauma he and his crewmates had endured. They didn\u2019t talk about it; they didn\u2019t get campaign medals, and their contribution to the allied victory became a national embarrassment consigned to the back pages of history by a society unsure of its moral culpability. <em>Wireless Operator<\/em> is a long-overdue re-examination of their experiences.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grand River Productions has joined forces with The Bridge for a television feature adaptation of Bob Baldwin and Max Kinnings\u2019 original stage play Wireless Operator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1033,"featured_media":13666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[4045,155,4046],"class_list":["post-13665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-grand-river-productions","tag-the-bridge","tag-wireless-operator","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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