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Brook Lapping

2007-06-25T14:30:21Z

Alex Woodrow:

Brook Lapping is owned by [[Ten Alps plc]], a media company that provides and manages content on TV, radio, online TV and print. Directors are [[Anne Lapping]], [[Brian Lapping]], Phil Craig, Norma Percy and Nitil Patel.
Brook Lapping is the 70% shareholder in the consortium behind [[Teachers' TV]] which was launched in February 2005 and is funded by the UK Department for Education and Skills {{ref|TDA}}.
In Teachers' TV Annual Report of 2005{{ref|TTVboard}}, Brian Lapping is listed as one of their key personnel and the Chairman of Education Digital Ltd, the part of the consortium that provides the financial and administrative backup to Educational Digital Management Ltd which has control of all editorial, programming and channel management issues relating to Teachers’ TV.

==References==

#{{note|TDA}} Training and Development Agency http://www.tda.gov.uk/about/newsletter/tdanewsarchive/200502.aspx}}

#{{note|TTVboard}} Teachers' TV Board of Governors http://www.ttvboard.org/pages/docportal/index.cfm?i_ID=11}}

Brook Lapping

2007-06-25T14:14:50Z

Alex Woodrow:

Brook Lapping is owned by [[Ten Alps plc]], a media company that provides and manages content on TV, radio, online TV and print. Directors are [[Anne Lapping]], [[Brian Lapping]], Phil Craig, Norma Percy and Nitil Patel.
Brook Lapping is the 70% shareholder in the consortium behind [[Teachers' TV]] which was launched in February 2005 and is funded by the UK Department for Education and Skills (Dfes).
In Teachers' TV Annual Report of 2005, Brian Lapping is listed as one of their key personnel and the Chairman of Education Digital Ltd, the part of the consortium that provides the financial and administrative backup to Educational Digital Management Ltd which has control of all editorial, programming and channel management issues relating to Teachers’ TV.

Brook Lapping

2007-06-25T14:12:35Z

Alex Woodrow:

Brook Lapping is owned by Ten Alps plc, a media company that provides and manages content on TV, radio, online TV and print. Directors are Anne Lapping, Brian Lapping, Phil Craig, Norma Percy and Nitil Patel.
Brook Lapping is the 70% shareholder in the consortium behind Teachers' TV which was launched in February 2005 and is funded by the UK Department for Education and Skills (Dfes).
In Teachers' TV Annual Report of 2005, Brian Lapping is listed as one of their key personnel and the Chairman of Education Digital Ltd, the part of the consortium that provides the financial and administrative backup to Educational Digital Management Ltd which has control of all editorial, programming and channel management issues relating to Teachers’ TV.

Anne Lapping

2007-06-25T13:48:31Z

Alex Woodrow:

Anne Lapping is a documentary producer with and Director of [[Brook Lapping]], a company her husband [[Brian Lapping]] established; she is the former executive producer and founder of Channel 4's ''A Week in Politics'' (1982 - 1997). From the Ten Alps biography: "After studying at the LSE she began her working career as a journalist on New Society and later worked for The Economist. In television, she worked with David Frost and John Birt for London Weekend Television, becoming a presenter and producer on Weekend World. She started the independent company, Brook Associates, (with David Elstein) in 1982. She is a governor of LSE, deputy chair of the Central and North West London Mental Health Trust and a director of the Scott Trust."{{ref|tenalp}}
Discussing her first job in broadcasting with Sarah Kitson, she says "John Birt was leaving Granada to start up Weekend World at London Weekend Television. My husband and John had worked together. John Birt was trying hard to put a team together quickly and I got a job as a researcher and reporter" {{ref|broadcastfreelancer}}

In 2005, both Anne and Brian Lapping were awarded the C.B.E. (Commander of the order of the British Empire) title. She is an LSE alumnus.

==Documentary Production==
Exec. Producer for:
*The Blair Decade
*Satellite Wars
*Can't Pay, Won't Pay
*A Vote For Hitler
*A Strike Out of Time

==Affiliations==
*London School of Economics (LSE)
*[[Brook Lapping]] – director
*[[Ten Alps]]
*[[Polis]]
*[[INTERIGHTS]] – Board of Directors [http://www.interights.org/page.php?dir=About&page=board.php]

==Publications==
*Anne Lapping, Community Action, Fabian Society, 1970.

==References==
#{{note|tenalp}}Anne Lapping's [http://tenalps.shapex.co.uk/shpx_common/src-v0.3.1-tenalps/src/preview.php?id=137 biography] on the Ten Alps website
#{{note|broadcast freelancer}} Interview with Sarah Kitson http://www.broadcastfreelancer.com/broadcast/content/ViewEditorialContentStory.do?contentId=3708