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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The Queen of Night Mumfie's Quest #2 by Britt Allcroft Britt Allcroft. Brittany Allcroft (born Hilary Mary Allcroft , 14 December 1943) is a British director, producer, writer and voice actress. She is the creator of the children's television series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends (later re-titled Thomas & Friends ), Shining Time Station (with Rick Siggelkow), Mr. Conductor's Thomas Tales and Magic Adventures of Mumfie . She wrote, co-produced and directed the film Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2000). Early life. She was born Hilary Mary Allcroft in Worthing, England. At the age of 16, she changed her first name to Britt as her career in British radio and television gained momentum. She went on to create a succession of programmes for the BBC and ITV during the 1970s and 1980s, including Moon Clue Game , Dance Crazy and Keepsakes . Mothers By Daughters , produced for Channel Four, was broadcast by PBS in the United States. She also worked in theatre, staging shows at the London Palladium and Drury Lane Theatres. [1] Career. While making a documentary about British steam trains in August 1979, Allcroft met the Reverend Wilbert Awdry, author of The Railway Series of children's books. She said, "It really didn't take me long to become intrigued by the characters, the relationships between them and the nostalgia they invoked." She told him that she wanted to bring these stories to life and made an arrangement to secure certain rights through his then- publishers Kaye & Ward. [2] In 1980, she co-founded Britt Allcroft Railway Productions (internationally known as The Britt Allcroft Company) with her husband, television producer Angus Wright.
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