Jonathan Ripley

Who is Jonathan Ripley?

Jonathan Ripley is an English writer, director, and producer of stage and screen. Media work started in 1981 documenting the closure of the old Billingsgate fish market, then worked as researcher firstly on channel 4 TVs multi-cultural documentary series Rhythms 1982-3, for LWT and Central TV shows, then as assistant director on channel 4s Brookside and drama feature A Kind of English.

As Associate Producer on Fonteyn and Nureyev, Channel 4's 1985 Christmas Day Special nominated for the International Emmy, on Tyne Tees Television's 1988 feature documentary, Thunder Road, and Yorkshire Television's first Tuesdays 1987 documentary film featuring Surfing in south Wales.