Angela Pope

Angela Pope is a director who started her career making documentaries for television and the moved into TV drama and features. Born 1945 in Weybridge Surrey, she was educated at Tiffin Girls Grammar School , and at Sussex University, followed - briefly - by post graduate work at UCLA which, she quit in favour of a six week contract with BBC TV Current Affairs as a junior researcher. She left the BBC TV after 15 great months, to try her hand as a freelance documentary film maker. In 1971 she made Yesterday's Men (1971) which now seems pretty tame, but, at the time, caused an uproar. Afterwards she was almost continuously employed making films for all main British TV companies. She concocted the story of what would become her first TV drama, _Shiftwork (Sep 24, 1986)_, starring Maureen Lipman as a single mother, night- time taxi driver, unlucky enough to have a corpse in the back of her cab.