Jaquie Brown: on not being Jackie Clarke...
After co-hosting music show Space with Dominic Bowden, Jaquie Brown became one of the main anchors on music channel C4. Brown was a reporter on current affairs show Campbell Live before stepped into the realm of programme-making. Forming her own company with Gerard Johnstone, she produced and starred in The Jaquie Brown Diaries. The show was named Best Comedy at the 2009 Qantas Film and Television Awards.
In this ScreenTalk interview, Brown talks about:
- How she looked as a 15-year-old
- How she handled her first live broadcast
- How a shocking night club revelation helped secure her role on the TV show Space
- The joys of live TV, working with Clarke Gayford, and being mistaken for Jackie Clarke and beating her up
- What it was like to work with John Campbell
- Which of her character’s mortifying experiences in The Jaquie Brown Diaries actually happened
- Some of the behind-the-scenes challenges of making TV
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Copyright
This video was first uploaded on 16 November 2009, and is available under this Creative Commons licence. This licence is limited to use of ScreenTalk interview footage only and does not apply to any video content and photographs from films, television, music videos, web series and commercials used in the interview.
