Len Brown was born in the Scottish Borders and brought up in Newcastle upon Tyne. He trained as a journalist on the East End News and The South Shields Gazette, before joining the staff of the New Musical Express during the 1980s. Since 1994, as a television producer, director or executive...
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Len Brown was born in the Scottish Borders and brought up in Newcastle upon Tyne. He trained as a journalist on the East End News and The South Shields Gazette, before joining the staff of the New Musical Express during the 1980s. Since 1994, as a television producer, director or executive producer, he has worked on many documentaries for the BBC, Granada/ITV and Channel Four, including My Generation (R&B bands of the 1960s: Small Faces, The Animals, The Kinks...), T. Rex: Dandy In The Underworld, It's Slade, Three Lions (A History Of The England Football Team 1960-2000), The Brit Girls (Girl singers of the 1960s: Cilla, Sandie, Lulu, Marianne Faithfull...), Football Stories: When Bobby Moore Met Jimmy Greaves, The Carpenters: Close To You and Rod Stewart: Wine Women & Song. Now a freelance filmmaker, author, journalist and playwright, he also works for the TV development charity, the Indie Training Fund.
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