{"id":483,"date":"2012-03-19T13:41:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T13:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=483"},"modified":"2012-03-19T13:41:51","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T13:41:51","slug":"toon-trouble-uk-animators-in-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=483","title":{"rendered":"Toon trouble: UK animators &#8216;in crisis&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/RTRC0092_Crash-Landing_003.tiff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-484\" title=\"Roary the Racing Car\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/RTRC0092_Crash-Landing_003.tiff\" alt=\"\" width=\"314\" height=\"176\" \/><\/a>Postman Pat, Bob the Builder and In The Night Garden &#8211; they\u2019re all global children\u2019s animation hits made in the UK. But now the UK animation industry warns they can no longer afford to produce hight quality programmes like this at home. Without tax breaks from the government they\u2019re finding it impossible to compete with other European animators, who do enjoy considerable state support. Listen to my report for Inside Europe on Deutsche Welle Radio:<\/p>\n<div class=\"ab-player\" data-boourl=\"http:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/718001-toon-trouble-uk-animators-in-crisis\/embed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/718001-toon-trouble-uk-animators-in-crisis\">listen to \u2018Toon trouble: UK animators &#8216;in crisis&#8217;\u2019 on Audioboo<\/a><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function() { var po = document.createElement(\"script\"); po.type = \"text\/javascript\"; po.async = true; po.src = \"http:\/\/d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js\"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(\"script\")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })();\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Postman Pat, Bob the Builder and In The Night Garden &#8211; they\u2019re all global children\u2019s animation hits made in the UK. But now the UK animation industry warns they can no longer afford to produce hight quality programmes like this at home. Without tax breaks from the government they\u2019re finding it impossible to compete with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}