Jennifer helps bring ‘Five Fables’ to television

A local designer is part of the team bringing ‘Five Fables’ to BBC Northern Ireland television over the coming weeks.
By The Newsroom
Published 14th Mar 2014, 11:38 BST
Ballymena-born designer Jennifer McNeill and fellow designer Dean Burke from Flickerpix in Holywood work on the animation for Five Fables being shown on BBC Two Northern Ireland at 7pm for the next five weeksBallymena-born designer Jennifer McNeill and fellow designer Dean Burke from Flickerpix in Holywood work on the animation for Five Fables being shown on BBC Two Northern Ireland at 7pm for the next five weeks
Ballymena-born designer Jennifer McNeill and fellow designer Dean Burke from Flickerpix in Holywood work on the animation for Five Fables being shown on BBC Two Northern Ireland at 7pm for the next five weeks

Ballymena-born Jennifer McNeill, working for Flickerpix in Holywood, is one of the designers for the animation of Five Fables which is being shown on BBC Two Northern Ireland on Thursdays at 7pm for the next number of weeks.

Five medieval Scots fables, translated by Seamus Heaney, have been brought into the 21st century through the programme as enchanting animated tales for the television.

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Narrated by acclaimed comedian/actor Billy Connolly and with a specially-composed score  by internationally renowned pianist Barry Douglas, Five Fables, made by local animation studio Flickerpix, is an ambitious re-telling of stories written 500 years ago by the medieval Scots poet, Robert Henryson.

 

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