Ruth Duggal

Hello, thank you for visiting my site. I am a Video and TV producer and Researcher and I also write features and scripts. Here you will find out about me and my work. On the production page you will see examples of the moving image projects I have...

Yesterday I bought a winter coat from Oxfam. It was an absolute find – a warm boiler jacket type garment by a reputable French designer. Perfect for the cold snap, and at only five quid I couldn’t leave it. Charity shops hold a...

No-one likes a liar, especially when he or she holds a position of trust. The path of history is littered with Pinocchial examples: Bill Clinton, Jeffrey Archer, Richard Nixon, Baron Munchhausen. Like chewing gum on a pavement, the lies they tell...

This week I have endured a double-pronged attack on my sensibilities from both ends of the moral spectrum. The first came from Hollywood via Blockbusters and the second arrived through my letterbox yesterday morning in the Sunday Telegraph. Missile...

Everyone loves getting presents, and there’s nothing better than a particularly fruitful visit from Santa to coax out the inner child. I am one of life’s present-squeezers – I see a shiny parcel with my name on it and I simply can’t resist a...

As my second property development is nearing completion, I am faced with an irritating decision: do I tart the place up as Bryant’s poor relation, or do I compromise its dignity by showing the house in all its natural, magnolia glory? The former...

2008 began for me with fireworks, but sadly not of the pyrotechnic kind. As the London skyline lit up on the telly behind me, my husband and I were getting explosive about an issue currently dominating our household. Despite it being a new year, we...

As I reclined back in my red ‘deluxe’ velour seat and sipped on my bucket-sized Sprite, I cast my gaze around Screen 8 in Solihull Multiplex and soaked in the oestrogen. Two hundred women all out for an evening of pure unadulterated female...

While experienced financial analysts predict the likelihood of a recession, my husband tells me off the top of his head that it has already started. When I look in the sink and see an increasing number of black hairs day after day, I think he...

To pull off a one-woman show you have to have something not usually associated with the female form: balls. And as a male writer of a one-woman show you have to have something even less frequently associated with the male psyche: insight. But...

Travelling with toddlers is no walk in the park. In fact, I seriously recommend forgoing the queues, flights, transfers and intolerant natives for a walk in your local park. Having survived the past two and a half years without so much...

They say it’s not until you’re all grown up that you can really appreciate what your parents did for you. In the 13 years since this little Yorkshire bird flew the nest, I have gradually twigged why they said what they said, did what they did, and...

“Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath.  Today, we are a pious and exemplary community.  Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient...

A few months ago my twins and I visited a friend who was in the process of hanging brand spanking new curtains hot off the Singer. Queue tension-building orchestral music, and prepare to cover your eyes. Complete the mise-en-scene with a black...

The trouble with trying out an experiment where the intention is not to do something is that if successful, there is very little to write about. I could sum up succinctly how I haven’t been clothes shopping and how I haven’t been to Ikea –...

This week Mr Brown has finally gone public with a donor story that doesn’t include Peter Hain, Harriet Harman or George Osborne. His latest policy idea is that everyone in Britain should automatically be placed on an organ donor register and be...

Its day three of my used goods project and on the whole people I have told about it have been really supportive. I have, however, had a few conversations that have made me smile internally and are definitely worth noting here. The first was with a...

My first entry is something of a closure on the past and a new beginning; a story of feuding families, crime, retribution, and an uncertainty about the effectiveness of revenge. Who would have thought that my epiphany would come whilst watching Never...