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	HELEN SAUNDERS - PA to Tony Garnett, John Heyman and Office Manager Helen has probably been with the Company the longest. She started working as P.A. to John Heyman, founder of the World Group, nearly 13 years ago and was based at Pinewood Studios. She then moved to the London office nearly 8 years ago to look after Tony Garnett, the Chairman, as well. She is also the office manager and tries to make sure everything runs smoothly. Helen says she is very fortunate in that she really loves her job - it can be stressful but no two days are the same. Helen has two grown up daughters, Jane 29 and Kathryn 27 who has given her four lovely grandchildren.
	RODERICK SELIGMAN - Director Roderick Seligman is responsible for commercial, legal and financial matters. Formerly he worked at merchant bank Lazard Brothers in the City and at television production company,TVF. He qualified as a chartered accountant with Arthur Andersen and has an MBA from Insead in France. He is extremely boring.
	BILL SHAPTER - Producer Bill Shapter started as a camera operator in 1965, moving to the cutting rooms in 1968 when he joined the BBC at Ealing Studios. After ten years working mainly on drama series and single films with directors that included Ken Russell, Clive Donner, Mike Newell, Warris Hussein and Kevin Connor and winning the Prix Italia for editing Roland Joffe's The Spongers, he left the corporation to cut feature films and work with Ken Loach and Tony Garnett, following Garnett to Hollywood in 1981. On returning to the UK although continuing to edit, Bill took control of Kestrel Films, (Loach and Garnett's old company that made Kes), and in 1989 joined the BBC again, this time as a producer making The Laughter of God for Screen Two. More recently he has produced: The Reconstructed Heart - C4 comedy with Robert Llewellyn, An Exchange of Fire - 2 x 90 min drama for C4, The Turnaround and Sharman - 5 x 75 min crime series with Clive Owen for ITV based on Mark Timlin's books, Beautiful Thing- a movie from Jonathan Harvey's play, The Heart Surgeon - 2 x 75 min drama for BBC TV and Ultraviolet - 6 x 50 min modern vampire thriller for C4 and Rough Treatment 2 x 75 min drama for ITV. He has recently produced Trance with Joe Ahearne.
	REBECCA STUNELL - Webmaster Becky considered 'Webmistress' as her job title, but thought it sounded too much like a porn site. Although everybody thinks she's too young, she's a recent graduate of the University of Westminster and has been running her own group of web sites for five years. Away from work, she's obsessed with gadgets and plans to have her brain wired directly to her iBook. Her ambition is to design clothing with enough pockets to accommodate all her technical clutter. She's currently addicted to the Palm game 'Bejeweled'. Oh, and she's had her hand up the back of Bagpuss.
	ANDREA SAPSFORD- Script Editor Andrea started her career in television in 1992 answering telephones for a large independent production company. She then became a secretary at the BBC despite her typing skills and began her ascent up the editorial ladder both inside and outside the BBC, before joining Eastenders as a fully-fledged Script Editor in 1995. Since then she has worked on various long-running series for the Beeb before escaping to World at the end of last year. Andrea is currently script editing for a new production.
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