About Woven Threads: Conversations with Costume Designers
What does a Costume Designer really do?
Are they the ones that make the clothes? What's their relationship with the director and the actors? Why is it more complex than just making people look pretty? And why do they look tired all the time?
My podcast aims to not only clarify these questions, but to show why Costume is far, far more fascinating than the answers.
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Amy and I chat about the particular kind of creativity of working in costume - that it's about being a responder rather than working "from a blank" - and the lively life it leads to.
Greatest hits:
Seven Dials (2026)
H is for Hawk (2025)
The Crown series 3 - 6
Prime Suspect 1970s (2017)
Swallows and Amazons (2016)
Jamaica Inn (2014)
The Tunnel (2013)
Call the Midwife - first series (2012)
Mrs Biggs (2012)
Upstairs Downstairs (2010)
Margot (2009)
Wuthering Heights - the Tom Hardy one (2009)
The Virgin Queen (2005)
The Queen's Nose (1995-2000)
Brassed Off (1996)
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2 Aug 2026
The Pam Downe episode
Pam and I had a conversation that kept coming back to the idea of working with other people: how to approach organising a team and how you all relate to the other departments
Greatest hits:
Dr Who (2023-5)
Funny Woman (2022)
Mr Malcolm's List (2022)
The Spanish Princess (2020)
The English Game (2020)
The Trial of Christine Keeler (2019)
Agatha Raisin (2016)
The Enfield Haunting (2015)
Episodes (2011)
Lark Rise to Candleford (2008)
NY-LON (2004)
Guest House Paradiso (1999)
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26 Jul 2026
The Ian Fulcher episode
Ian speaks interestingly here about how his knowledge of period costume informs his contemporary design, and about how he is both fluid and organised.
Greatest hits:
Unchosen (2026)
Black Doves (2024)
A Very British Scandal (2021)
It's a Sin (2021)
Giri/ Haji (2019)
Kiri (2018)
The Last Dragonslayer (2016)
Murdered by My Boyfriend (2014)
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1 Apr 2025
The Sinéad Kidao episode
This is the second in my "Early Career Costume Designers" mini series. My interview is with Sinéad Kidao, whose attitude to leading her department I found very inspiring.
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Greatest hits:
The Franchise (2024)
Joy (2024)
Golda (2023)
Life After Life (2022)
The Pursuit of Love (2021)
Small Axe ("Red, White and Blue" and "Education") (2020)
This Way Up (2019)
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31 Mar 2025
The PC Williams episode
This is the first in a little mini-series I've decided to do where I focus on Costume Designers at the earlier stage of their career (although my interview with Lucille really belongs to the series too) This episode is with PC Williams: we talk about how her background in styling has informed her costume work, and the angle that it has given her on the Costume world as a whole.
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Greatest hits:
Back to Black (2024)
The Kitchen (2023)
The End We Start From (2023)
We are Lady Parts (2021)
Frank of Ireland (2021)
Powder Room (2013)
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3 Sept 2024
The John Bright episode
My sixth episode is with John Bright. John runs Cosprop, a costume hire and making house in London, alongside being a Costume Designer. His ability to adapt and yet hold fast to what really matters comes across very clearly here, and I feel very glad to have recorded this conversation.
His film credits include:
The White Countess (2005)
The Golden Bowl (2000)
Onegin (1999) - with Chloe Oblensky
Sense and Sensibility (1995) - with Jenny Beavan
The Remains of the Day (1993) - with Jenny Beavan
Howard's End (1992) - with Jenny Beavan
Maurice (1987) - with Jenny Beavan
A Room with a View (1985) - with Jenny Beavan
The Bostonians (1984) - with Jenny Beavan
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6 Aug 2024
The Lucille Acevedo-Jones episode
*Make sure your volume is up high - I recorded our voices too quietly!*
My sixth episode is with Lucille Acevedo-Jones. Lucille talks about her appreciation for other departments and topping up your creative, and personal, cup.
Greatest hits:
Men Up (2023) - as Designer
The Pact (2022) - as Designer
The Flash (2023) - as Assistant Costume Designer
Everyone's Talking About Jamie (2021) - as Assistant Costume Designer
Devs (2020) - as Assistant Costume Designer
Fantastic Beasts: the Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) - as Costume Assistant
Phantom Thread (2017) - as Costume Assistant
Black Sails (2015) - as Assistant Costume Designer
Hugo (2011) - as Costume Assistant
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7 May 2024
The Howard Burden episode
My fifth interview is with Howard Burden. Howard talks about how things have changed - and not necessarily in a good way - and the relationship with suppliers.
Greatest hits:
Red Dwarf (1989 - ongoing)
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1999)
Dead Gorgeous (2002)
Colditz (2005)
Whitechapel (2009)
Robin Hood (2009)
Dr Who (2012 - 2014)
Jekyll and Hyde (2015)
Home Fires (2016)
Poldark (2017 - 2019)
Worzel Gummidge (2019 - 2021)
Young Wallander (2020 - 2022)
The Last Kingdom (2022)
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30 Apr 2024
The Natalie Ward episode
My fourth interview is with Natalie Ward. Natalie talks about things feeling "real", being adaptable and the upsides to having small teams.
Greatest hits:
24 Hour Party People (2002)
The Mother (2003)
Enduring Love (2004)
Derailed (2005)
Venus (2006)
Breaking and Entering (2006)
1408 (2007)
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)
Last Chance Harvey (2008)
Red Riding: 1974 (2009)
The Debt (2010)
Welcome to the Punch (2013)
Black Sea (2014)
The Lady in the Van (2015)
The Wedding Guest (2018)
Together (2021)
Typist Artist Pirate King (2022)
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23 Apr 2024
The Janty Yates episode
Janty Yates is the subject of my third interview. We talk about her long, and very fulfilling, working relationship with Ridley Scott.
Greatest hits:
Cracker (1993)
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (1995)
Jude (1996)
Welcome to Sarajevo (1997)
The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997)
Plunkett and Macleane (1999)
Gladiator (2000)
Hannibal (2001)
Enemy at the Gates (2001)
Charlotte Grey (2001)
Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
Miami Vice (2006)
American Gangster (2007)
Robin Hood (2010)
Prometheus (2012)
Exodos (2014)
The Martian (2015)
Alien: Covenant (2017)
All the Money in the World (2017)
House of Gucci (2021)
Napoleon (2023)
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9 Apr 2024
The Jane Petrie episode
Jane Petrie is the subject of my second interview. She talks about instinct and "doing your research", and we give a little history lesson about what the Costume world used to be like...
Jane's Greatest Hits:
28 Weeks Later (2007)
Is Anybody There? (2008)
Moon (2009)
Fish Tank (2009)
Harry Brown (2009)
How I Live Now (2013)
'71 (2014)
Suffragette (2015)
The Program (2015)
War Machine (2017)
The Crown (2017)
Outlaw / King (2018)
The King (2019)
The Essex Serpent (2022)
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2 Apr 2024
The Odile Dicks-Mireaux episode
Odile Dicks Mireaux is the subject of my first interview. Collaboration is what it's all about for her, and our discussion puts particular focus on the work she did on Chernobyl.
Greatest Hits:
Gormenghast (2000)
Dirty Pretty Things (2002)
The Lost Prince (2003)
The Constant Gardener (2005)
An Education (2009)
One Day (2011)
Bel Ami (2012)
Brooklyn (2015)
High Rise (2015)
The Sense of an Ending (2017)
Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017)
Chernobyl (2019)
Last Night in Soho (2022)
The Wonder (2022)
See How The Run (2022)
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2 Apr 2024
The Explanation Episode
This is a micro episode for those who don't work in the Film and TV industry, providing a little context for the interviews I've done
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27 Mar 2024
Woven Threads: An Introduction
What does it mean to "work in Costume"?
Here I explain why that's a question I want to answer...
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