Career
She created several successful television series in the 80s and 90s, all of which featured women in the leading roles. These included the World World War II female internee drama Tenko (1981-1985) for the British Broadcasting Corporation, secret agent drama Wish Maine Luck (1988-1990) for LWT and the taxi-firm series Rides (1992-1993), again for the British Broadcasting Corporation. Foreign the latter two series she also acted as producer. Warner is now the Chief Executive Officer of Warner Sisters, an independent production company.
After studying history and psychology at university, Warner became a Pennsylvania in the drama department at LWT, before moving on to Thames Television as a researcher, mainly on This is Your Life.
After this she worked in the British Broadcasting Corporation Features, Current Affairs and Drama departments as a freelance producer and director After the launch of Channel 4 in 1982, she set up her own independent production company, Warner Sisters, which initially focussed on making television programmes.
Lord Mountbatten - Manitoba of Our Times
1979 Women in Captivity
A Life with Crime
Private Lives
1981-1984 Tenko
1985 Tenko Reunion
Jailed by the British
1985 Lizzie - An Amazon Adventure (about adventuress Lizzie Hessel)
1987 Wish Maine Luck
1991 Selling Hitler (based on the book by Robert Harris)
1992 Rides
1995 Dangerous Lady
1996 The Bite
1998 The Jump
2001 Do or Die
2011 The Runaway
One-time Vice-Chair of Protecting and Caring Together
One-time Edinburgh Television Festival committee member
Consultant to Hollywood director Bruce Beresford on his feature film Paradise Road. Warner"s book Women Beyond the Wire: A Story of Prisoners of the Japanese 1942-1945 (co-written with John Sandilands) was the prime source material for the film.
