Tracing the Rails: Meet the Storytellers
Mike Jaimes
Co Presenter
Chris Kirk
Director
Catherine Pope
Production Supervisor
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Credential
As a dynamic production team, Chris Kirk and Stephen Cranford, lifelong friends with unique but relevant experience and skills, bring together a fine blend of expertise and passion to the world of documentary filmmaking. Chris, with his background as an editor and creative with a profound interest in local history and environmental conservation, brings organisational skills and a keen eye for detail to the project. Stephen Cranford, known for his engaging presence on BBC Radio Sussex and various television projects, adds a layer of charisma and a wealth of broadcasting experience.
Together, they form a synergistic duo, combining Chris's meticulous planning and research capabilities with Stephen's storytelling prowess and on-screen appeal. In fact they met while working for a model railway shop called "the Engine Shed", part of Gaugemaster Controls.
Joining them are Mike Jaimes as co-presenter and Lou Kirk-Partridge as Producer. Mike a person with years of real experience in transport history with specialist knowledge of trams and buses in particular, combined with his talents on stage, and in narrating. Lou Partridge a project manager, artist, and photographer with a real passion for the countryside and Sussex local history, whose Dad also happened to be a railwayman.
Our approach to production is marked by a careful balance of educational content, visual storytelling, and community engagement, ensuring that each episode of 'Tracing the Rails' resonates with a wide audience rather than relating only to rail enthusiasts. The production firmly aims to show what still remains, how you can find it and what it means.
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Tracing the Rails Productions Ltd is a private company limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales. Company No. 16350480.
Registered office: 42 Pound Lane, Upper Beeding, Steyning, West Sussex, BN44 3JD. Tracing the Rails® is a registered trademark (UK00004066016) used under licence.
This is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to community-based documentary production and public heritage storytelling.