James Runcie

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James Runcie (* 1959 ) is a British author , television producer , theater director, documentary filmmaker and director of the Bath Literature Festival since 2009 .

Childhood and youth

James Runcie is the son of Robert Runcie , a former Ordinary and Archbishop of the Church of England in the Diocese of St Albans , and Rosalind Runcie, a pianist . From 1980 to 1991 his father was Archbishop of Canterbury .

He attended the Dragon School at Oxford , Marlborough College in Marlborough and Trinity Hall in Cambridge . In 1981 James Runcie received a first class degree in English from the University of Cambridge .

Private life

In 1985, James Runcie married radio producer Marilyn Elsie Imrie, with whom he has a daughter, Charlotte Runcie, born in 1989 and studying at Queen's College, University of Cambridge. James is also the stepfather of Rosie Kallagher, born in 1978, a daughter of his wife, who brought her into the marriage. Rosie Kallagher is an artistic director .

James Runcie lives in Edinburgh with his wife .

Work in the media

From 1983 to 1986 James Runcie worked as a writer and director for BBC Scotland .

Runcie distributed for BBC a. a. Music, art and history television programs. James Runcie also works as a documentary director and producer. His works include A Year in the Life of Joanne K. Rowling (in the original: Joanne K. Rowling: A Year In The Life ) and Mein Vater (in the original: My Father) , a film about the life of his father Robert Runcie treats. Runcie also works for Channel 4 , BBC and ITV .

The documentary My Father was shot two weeks before James Runcie's father died, making it the last recording of an interview with the former bishop.

A year in the life of Joanne K. Rowling

From November 2006 to October 2007, James Runcie accompanied the writer Joanne K. Rowling for a year while she worked on the final volume of Harry Potter - Heptalogy , Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (in the original: Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows ) .

The documentary shows many things from Joanne K. Rowling's everyday life, parts of her difficult childhood, the long unemployment and the finding process, right up to the idea and the end of the Harry Potter series.

The film received good reviews and positive reactions from fans in some communities. Runcie conducted the interviews and spoke the documentary himself, making it all the more amazing that the film was documented by a woman, Elizabeth Vargas, when it aired in the United States .

James Runcie as an author

James Runcie wrote four novels between 2001 and 2009:

  • Canvey Iceland , a narrative that at times of British post war plays
  • The Discovery Of Chocolate
    • The discovery of chocolate, a philosophical comedy about a man who tries for 500 years to live only with love and chocolate
  • East Fortune
  • Color Of Heaven
    • The color of the sky

In 2012, his collection of historical crime short stories The Shadow of Death: Sidney Chambers Determined (Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death) was published , which should be followed by five more volumes by 2017. In the character of the hobby detective, a country pastor from a village near Cambridge in the 1950s and 1960s, he processed, among other things, the experiences of his father. The novels became the template for the ITV series Grantchester from 2014 . The short stories were published in the UK by Bloomsbury Publishing . The collections have also been published in German since 2014. In 2020, The Road To Grantchester published the prelude to how Sidney Chambers found his calling as a veteran of the Second World War in post-war London.

  • Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death: Grantchester Mysteries 1 , London 2012
    • The shadow of death: Sidney Chambers investigated, Hamburg 2016
  • Sidney Chambers and The Perils of the Night: Grantchester Mysteries 2, London 2013
    • The horrors of the night: Sidney Chambers investigates, Hamburg 2017
  • Sidney Chambers and The Problem of Evil: Grantchester Mysteries 3 , London 2014
    • The problem of evil: Sidney Chambers investigates, Hamburg 2018
  • Sidney Chambers and The Forgiveness of Sins: Grantchester Mysteries 4 , London 2015
    • The forgiveness of sins: Sidney Chambers investigates, Hamburg 2019
  • Sidney Chambers and The Dangers of Temptation: Grantchester Mysteries 5 , London 2016
  • Sidney Chambers and The Persistence of Love: Grantchester Mysteries 6 , London 2017
  • The Road To Grantchester , London 2020

Awards

James Runcie won two BAFTA awards for his work with a Scottish broadcaster and was nominated for another BAFTA award.

literature

  • Humphrey Carpenter, Robert Runcie: The Reluctant Archbishop . Hodder & Stoughton, 1996. ISBN 0-340-57107-1 . Pages 269-272
  • Desmond Devitt, A Diversity of Dragons , 2003. pp. 51-52

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personal data
SURNAME Runcie, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British author and television producer
DATE OF BIRTH 1959