About us

The orginal 1983 recording was made by film maker and photographer, Noel Chanan, who is also the producer and director of this new video film.

Noel Chanan's career in TV documentary began in 1962 when he joined the BBC. In 1966 he went freelance, continuing to work for the BBC, but also for Granada TV, and later for Channel 4, alternating between producing, directing, and editing a wide variety of documentary films in the fields of world events of a political or historical nature, as well as in the arts, including a number of films about the history of photography. The photographs included in The Artist and the Poet were taken by Chanan. One of those of Ted Hughes features on the jacket of The Collected Poems (Faber and Faber, 2003).