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“I’m very excited about ideas that exploit both broadcast and online opportunities. I’m working with multiplatform company Somethin’ Else to create a really new and exciting raft of programmes for August in 3MW – a bit too secret to talk about yet. There’s also a week of films around Domestic Violence from the very talented director Ruth Carslaw.

It really tickles me when 3MW spills into the real world. I was delighted with our collaboration with the Saatchi Gallery last year: a competition called New Sensations, which launched the careers of four young graduate artists.

Part of 3MW’s charm (I hope!) is its eclecticism. It should feel diverse and ever-changing, socially relevant to a broad audience but attuned to subcultures and movements outside the mainstream. 3MWs should be provocative, filmic – and the trajectory and narrative should feel absolutely unique to those three minutes. It’s about short-cutting the 40-minute preamble and getting to the heart of a subject.

The connection between 3MW and FourDocs will continue to get stronger, and I’m continuing my commitment to commission films directly from there. In June we’ll transmit the best four films that have been uploaded in response to the theme My Family and Other Animals – and there will be another theme posted up during the summer which I hope will inspire and encourage people to make shorts.”

Kate Vogel: Editor, 3 Minute Wonder, Channel 4