ONE of the North East’s best known screen stars has voiced a unique BBC film projected onto a Northumberland landmark.
Robson Green provided the voiceover for the distinctive footage which was created to underline the BBC’s commitment to homegrown storytelling from the region.
The film, part of the BBC’s Made Of Here campaign, ‘credits’ places, characteristics and BBC programmes that are made of the North East, including the banks of the Tyne; the Northumberland coast; graft and straight talking; Auf Wiedersehen, Pet; Byker Grove; Robson Green’s Weekend Escapes and Smoggie Queens.
Robson has returned to work in the region on The Northumbria Mysteries, a new daytime drama currently being filmed on location in Northumberland in which he stars as ex-convict and gambler Joe Ruby. It has been confirmed that Robson’s co-star will be Liz White (Life on Mars; Call the Midwife) who plays Oxford-educated DI Rose O'Connell.
Other cast members include Simon Callow, Kevin Whately, Gurjeet Singh and Chris Gascoyne.
Filming locations include Brinkburn Priory, Alnmouth, Dunstanburgh Castle, Alnwick, Bamburgh, Morpeth, Eglingham, Rothbury, Embleton and Beadnell.
Later this year, Robson will again be on home turf to make a new programme, Growing Home with Robson Green, which will be filmed on location in the garden at his 350-year-old cottage on the banks of the Tyne.
Robson said: “The North East is rich in stories and in the people who tell them best. Seeing some of our most loved programmes, places and distinct identity projected onto Alnwick Castle and set against the Northumberland night sky, has been a real joy. I’m incredibly proud to be from here and it’s definitely a place of straight talkers and hard grafters.
“The programmes featured in the film, alongside my new series The Northumbria Mysteries and Growing Home, are not only made in the North East - they are made of it and reflect the character, voice and spirit of this special place.”
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