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Actress Jessica Raine, writer/creator Heidi Thomas, exec producer Pippa Harris + director Philippa Lowthorpe talk about their BBC drama series, based on Jennifer Worth's memoirs about midwives in 1950s East End London.

Chaired by James Rampton; recorded at 195 Piccadilly in January 2013.

It's 2013! Before we get stuck into a new BAFTA year, let's have a look back over the past 12 months.

Did you know BAFTA hosts over 250 events each year - not including its awards? In episode #5, Head of BAFTA's events programme Tim Hunter joins host Dave Green in the studio, and we ask our events producers to select their favourite clips from 2012. If you're new to BAFTA's events - or just want to catch up on last year's highlights - start here.

It's a bumper package: Mad Men actor Jon Hamm, HBO's Girls showrunner Jenni Konner, Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar, genre-hopping director Ang Lee, VFX guru Ben Grossmann, Doctor Who music composer Murray Gold, and much more. Phew!

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It's well documented that cinemas are moving to total digitisation in the next few years, and the received wisdom is that this will be cheaper for distributors and cinemas, and should allow for greater audience choice on our screens.

But what are the creative and economic implications of this move for the filmmakers - directors, DoPs, producers, facilities companies and how is this affecting the way we preserve the work. Our panellists ask whether they are losing the choice to decide whether to shoot and screen on film or digital, and if so, what is being lost?

We bring together major Directors, DoPs, and technical professionals to look at these questions and some of the lesser understood arguments from their perspective..

Panel includes:

Kevin Macdonald - Director, Marley, Touching The Void.

Iain Softley – Director, K-Pax, Wings of the Dove, Backbeat and the upcoming Trap for Cinderella

John Mathieson – DoP, Gladiator, X-Men: First Class, Great Expectations

Hector MacLeod - CEO, Glassworks, post-production and visual effects facility

Charles Fairall – Head of Conservation, BFI National Archive

Recorded at BAFTA on 12 November 2012.

The TV adaptation of William Boyd's spy novel Restless was part of the BBC's big Christmas line-up. In this Q&A, actors Hayley Atwell + Rufus Sewell join Boyd + director Edward Hall to discuss how the film diverges from the novel, its painstaking location research + much more.

Recorded on 18 December 2012.

BAFTA Games Question Time returned in December 2012 to London's 195 Piccadilly, discussing the hot topics in the games world right now, including: the free model versus the paid-for model, gender discrimination in games, whether games are 'art', and much, much more.

Presented by Eurogamer's Ellie Gibson, the panel consisted of broadcaster Jonathan Ross, Torsten Reil of CSR Racing publisher Natural Motion, Sports Interactive's Miles Jacobson and Lego Star Wars publisher TT Games' Tom Stone. Recorded on 4/12/12.

To keep up with BAFTA's year-round programme of games events, follow http://twitter.com/BAFTAGames on Twitter and visit http://guru.bafta.org/craft/games

Roll up, roll up: it's episode 4 of the shiny BAFTA Podcast!

Last month our British Academy Children's Awards showed that UK kids' TV is in rude health. We chat about (and to) the winners and nominees, listen to Peep Show's Sam Bain + Jesse Armstrong talk about learning their craft in kids' television, and more.

Joining host Dave Green in the studio is 2-times Writing Award winner James Lamont (The Amazing World of Gumball), producer Maddy Darrall (Darrall MacQueen) + writer Elly Brewer (Tracy Beaker Returns, Shaun the Sheep), talking about how not to patronise, commissioning opportunities, and... Count Duckula.

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Peter Mullan plays a gangster struggling with the onset of Alzheimer's disease in Channel 4's new drama. He's joined by director Michael Samuels & writer Richard Cottan in this post-screening Q&A, held at BAFTA on 25 November 2012. Chaired by Amy Raphael.

Warning: strong language is used in this recording. There is also a mild plot spoiler about episode 2 of the series.

In the light of the release of the Career Pathways Survey Report in October 2012, which examined the career decision-making process and influences of 2077 young people aged 16-24, BAFTA held a summit to discuss its findings.

The panel included:

- Saint John Walker: Head of Development at Creative Skillset

- Luke Hyams: Writer/director (Dubplate Drama) and Supervising Producer at The Hatch

- Daniel Kaluuya: Actor/writer (Skins) and BAFTA Brits to Watch honouree in 2011

- Sophia George: Chair, designer and artist at Swallowtail Games, winners of BAFTA Ones to Watch in 2012

- John Lees: Joint Chair of the Association of Career Professionals International UK (ACPi-UK)

A copy of the survey report can be viewed here:

http://www.bafta.org/about/supporting-talent/career-pathways-summit,3514,BA.html

Almodóvar elaborates on Talk To Her - 'one of the pieces I feel most proud' - in particular the influence of 1950s genre movies such as The Incredible Shrinking Man. He also talks about the way that 'one film watched with 1000 pairs of eyes becomes 1000 different films - all of them valid.'

The director describes the influence of John Cassavetes' 1977 film on his own All About My Mother, and talks broadly about artistic appropriation.