‘Terrific bid’ aims to bring television home (full video interview)

David Caffrey, BAFTA award winning director of the hit TV show Peaky Blinders, and a Hastings resident spoke to Hastings In Focus at the weekend about the bid put together by Hastings Borough Council and Locate East Sussex to persuade Channel 4 to set up one of its new creative hubs in the town where television was born.

Hear what he has to say….

  • Read the full story here…
  • https://hastingsinfocus.co.uk/2018/05/19/lights-cameras-action-bafta-winning-director-supports-bid-to-bring-c4-to-town/
2018-05-19 16.11.04
Hastings Borough Council leader Peter Chowney and David Caffrey with the ‘Bringing Television Home’ bid document and the BAFTA award recently won by Peaky Blinders which David directed.

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