Aussie producer on the hardest part of making TV in Afghanistan
Australian TV producer Trudi-Ann Tierney on the drama behind her dramatizations in Kabul.
Australian TV producer Trudi-Ann Tierney joins guest host Candy Palmater to discuss her path to making soap operas in Afghanistan — a choice chock-full of its own drama.
On top of the usual pressures of television production, Tierney faced new challenges — like finding women who had their family's blessing to act, and writing plot lines without soap tropes like infidelity, drunkenness and debauchery. On the flip side, she and her crew got away with stunts that would never fly in Australia.