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and the Japanese electronic company, Pioneer. During this time she produced fifteen full-length opera and ballet productions from Covent Garden in co-production with the BBC, Channel 4 and NHK.
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in 1963. They lived and farmed in Wales, where she also was Master of Fox Hounds (MFH) of the Golden Valley and bred and trained event horses with Lesley Law. She had two children,
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Guest was married to American international lawyer Robert Albert, the couple having met while Guest was working on a documentary about race in the United States for
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Since its creation, Transatlantic has produced more than one hundred and fifty films and series, working in co-production with the BBC,
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and other major UK broadcasters, as well as with leading TV networks in the United States, Canada, Australia and Europe –
504: 254:(26 x 50') was the highest-rated series on the Travel Channel in the US, a co-production with Discovery Channel Europe. 27:(14 September 1931 – 8 June 2022) was a British filmmaker, journalist, author and farmer who was Chair Emeritus of the 478:"Revel Guest, documentary-maker who ran the Hay book festival and helped bring War Horse to the big screen – obituary" 286:(4 x 50') was a co-production with the Travel Channel, S4C and S4C International and most recently, she co-produced 406: 52: 162: 275: 72: 129:'s two-year experiment in US public broadcasting, Public Broadcasting Laboratory which led to the creation of 186: 178: 258:(26 x 25') was the first UK/Canadian Treaty Co-Production of a factual television documentary series. 626: 621: 318: 248:, a 26 part series which won the Prix de Basle, Barcelona Bienale for Culture and the Prix Stendhal. 77: 447: 158: 231: 597: 576: 562: 548: 534: 341: 291: 190: 146: 48: 334: 330: 150: 115: 99: 340:
Guest was also Executive Producer of "Covent Garden Pioneer" – a joint venture between the
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for Channel 4, a psychological drama starring Tim Piggot Smith, and later produced
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She left the BBC in 1966 to become Head of the European Bureau of the
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in the United States, Great North and Alliance Atlantis in Canada,
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and became its first female producer/director, working with
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for over twenty years, and later served as Chair Emeritus.
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special made in co-production with West Beach Productions.
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on 14 September 1931. A politician's daughter (her father,
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in 1972. More recently she was Executive Producer of the
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and his three brothers served as MPs with their cousin,
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Guest co-authored two books and had been Chair of the
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Index

OBE
Hay Festival
London
Oscar Guest
Sir Winston Churchill
London School of Economics
Jo Grimond
House of Commons
Swansea East
Time and Tide
European Movement
BBC
Panorama
Richard Dimbleby
Robin Day
John Morgan
Hugh Gaitskell
Harold Macmillan
Edward Heath
Ford Foundation
PBS
Channel 4
Discovery Channel
TLC
Animal Planet
A&E
Group W
Metromedia
PBS
ABC

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