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James MacTaggart (25 April 1928 – 29 May 1974) was a Scottish television producer, director and writer. He worked in London from 1961.
As a producer, director and writer of British television drama, James MacTaggart (1928-1974) was responsible for numerous stylistic experiments and technical innovations in the medium from the early 1960s until the mid-1970s.
Since 1976 the James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture has been the centrepiece of the Edinburgh TV Festival. It provokes and inspires debate, conversation, and change. Joining a long list of...
In a television career spanning nearly 20 years and cut short only by his premature death, James MacTaggart produced, directed or wrote well over 100 individual television plays or episodes. He began as an actor before joining BBC Scotland as a radio producer in the 1950s, subsequently moving into television.
James MacTaggart (1928–1974) was a Scottish-born television producer, director and writer, hailed as one of the best of his generation. The annual James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival was inaugurated in 1976 in his memory.
‘Opening up the Fourth Front’: Micro Drama and the Rejection of Naturalism: The James MacTaggart Lecture 1986
Since 1976 the James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture has been the centrepiece of the Edinburgh TV Festival. It provokes and inspires debate, conversation, and change. Joining a long list of thinkers and luminaries, award-winning broadcaster, author and podcaster Louis Theroux will deliver the 48th le...
