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10 Facts About Ken Bolam

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Ken Bolam is a British film and TV composer and producer, who has worked extensively over the past twenty years.

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Ken Bolam is best known for his work on popular TV shows such as Ready Steady Cook, Derren Brown - The Events, and The Cube, as well as on the BAFTA award-winning Jim Henson TV series The Hoobs.

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Ken Bolam was instrumental in the setting up of Initial Kids and the production of Miami 7, Cleopatra's Comin' Atcha, and Wild Track for ITV.

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Ken Bolam then headed up Global Talent TV with Chris Cowey, executive-producing Urbanation and G4 at the Royal Albert Hall.

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Ken Bolam was responsible for brokering music publishing administration deals for Endemol, Initial, Zeal, and Whizzkid Entertainment.

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Ken Bolam is currently working on a number of projects with Nick Foster, one of which is the development of HomeMade Music.

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Ken Bolam worked extensively in the field of children's TV, working on long-running big-audience shows such as Dizzy Heights, Tricky Business, and Dooby Duck.

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Ken Bolam composed over 200 songs and wrote the incidental music for the BAFTA award-winning series The Hoobs and wrote the incidental music for the groundbreaking Children's BBC series Miami 7 which was sold to over 100 countries around the world.

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Ken Bolam was Music Supervisor for both Eric Fellner and Eileen Quinn at Initial Films on the Helen Mirren film The Hawk, and on Seaforth, The Wexford Trilogy by Billy Roche and No Worries for Film4.

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Ken Bolam has been active in the field of children's educational materials, having devised, written, and produced over 50 children's learning CDs for CYP Music, and published several educational folk song collections through Faber Music.