News—  December 2011 ;

"The Diamond Queen" is a 3 x 1 hour series made by BBC Events. The Programme examines the 60 year reign of Queen Elizabeth 2nd and was filmed during 2010 and 2011 and is fronted by Andrew Marr who has written a book to accompany the series.

Star Street Video Director Dave Holmes was the location Sound Recordist on the series using a Sound Devices 552 mixer, Micron radiomics and additionally Schoeps and Sennheiser microphones. Holmes said " The 552 was perfect for this shoot. We often shot with two cameras and the 552 enabled me to monitor both return's with no need for external devices. Additionally I could use the 552 to record a back-up WAV file with time-code".

The first Episode of "The Diamond Queen" will be shown on BBC1 at 9.00pm on Monday 6th February 2012 with Episode 2 on 13th February and Episode 3 on 20th February 2012