the first stop for film and moving image in cornwall and the south west

Jane and Nick Darke - The Wrecking Season / Dumbstruck and Hooked

Some interesting broadcasts

• The Wrecking Season will be screened: BBC4 o­n 22 July at 10pm
• 17 July at 1.30 o­n Radio 4  'Dumbstruck' and
• 18 July at 2.15 o­n Radio 4: 'Hooked'.

Jane Darke lives and works as a painter and ‘wrecker’ in Porthcothan, Cornwall, her paintings capture scenes of the North Cornwall coastline and catch from the sea. In 2002 she and her partner, playwright Nick Darke, first collaborated o­n the Radio 4 documentary Dumbstruck about his recovery from a stroke. Their first full length documentary film The Wrecking Season, directed by Jane and finished in 2004, has been bought by BBC 4.

For more information about the film The Wrecking Season click o­n the link above or to know more about Jane's paintings visit www.janedarke.co.uk/.