Francis Gladstone

Francis Gladstone (James Francis G) has degrees in history (1943,64) from the University of Oxford and participated in the New York University Film School Summer workshop under High Manoogian in 1965. He went on to edit for the Everest and expedition film maker, Tom Stobart; and then to work in cutting rooms at the BBC owned Ealing Film Studios. He made his first short films for the BBC arts series Release and then went to work as assistant producer and producer-director for the long running BBC science documentary series, Horizon. In 1973 he was appointed one of the first producer-directors on the now fabled NOVA science series made for PBS at WGBH Boston, originally edited by Michael Ambrosino. Apart from NOVA credits he made documentaries and drama documentaries for the American National Theatre of the Deaf under the title Festival of Hands and on California history under the banner California Dreams. He has written two monographs, The Politics of Planning &, a kind of homage to American years, The Cricketers Guide to Baseball. He is co-author with Jo Elwyn Jones of two books relating to the Alice in Wonderland Stories. As of 2023 developing Green Scarf Stories. He was born in 1941.