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News Archive for October, 2010

  • BBC Archive pioneers

    Archive pioneers: early days of the BBC Sound Archive To coincide with UNESCO’s World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, BBC Archive has released a small collection profiling the Corporation’s own archive pioneers. The collection includes broadcasts and some recordings never before released in full. The BBC was nearly ten years old when it installed its first […]

  • Weekly Top 5 Television & Radio programme requests

    For the week ending 22 October 2010 Robert Llewellyn comes out on top again for his behind-the-scenes look at the mundane and the high-risk. New popular requests include Mark Gatiss’ three-part history of horror cinema. 1. HOW DO THEY DO IT? (FIVE) See TRILT record or watch now on BoB National 2. HELP! MY HOUSE […]

  • BBC launches HD Sound

    In November the BBC will launch two new high-definition services. BBC Radio 3 will be available through its website in HD Sound, an extra high quality audio stream, and special events on other networks will also be offered in extra high quality audio, beginning with the Electric Proms on BBC Radio 2 later this month. […]

  • A Life Rewound

    A Life Rewound is the memoir of the pioneering film and television producer, Peter Morley. His first job, aged 16, was as a rewind-boy in London’s Dominion Cinema. His rise to editing, and then writing and directing, documentary films was interrupted by the Second World War and four years in a tank. In 1955, as […]

  • Weekly Top 5 Television & Radio programme requests

    For the Week Ending 15th October 2010 Robert Llewellyn comes out on top for his behind-the-scenes look at the mundane and the high-risk along with several items exploring the nature-nurture debate. 1. HOW DO THEY DO IT? (FIVE) See TRILT record or watch now on BoB National 2. THE CLASSROOM EXPERIMENT (BBC2) See TRILT record […]

  • Launch of ‘Knowledge Is …’ film

    The JISC Film & Sound Think Tank today launched Knowledge Is…, a new film which sets out the cultural imperative of access to UK moving image and sound collections.

  • Lost Burgess story on Radio 3

    A previously unpublished short story by Anthony Burgess is to be broadcast on Radio 3. Written in the 1960s, ‘Chance Would be a Fine Thing’ is about two middle-aged women and their ill-fated experiments with Tarot cards. It will be read by John Sessions and broadcast within the arts magazine Twenty Minutes, on 22 October […]

  • Teacher’s TV faces closure

    The Department for Education has announced that it will end the Teacher’s TV service from April 2011 as part of the latest round of government cuts. At present the service, which was originally also available as a digital TV channel but became an online-only resource in August, emplys a staff of 55 people. Negotiations are […]

  • Launch of Global Shakespeares

    The Global Shakespeares Video & Performance Archive provides open online access to videos of Shakespeare productions from around the world within a federated archive. Users can view and study annotated and subtitled titles within and across cultures. Scholars and educators in the field are providing essays and metadata to promote cross-cultural research of Shakespeare in […]

  • 2010 Media & Learning Conference

    The Media & Learning 2010 conference is the place to be if you are interested in the latest developments, services and uses of media in education and training. Aimed at both policy-makers and practitioners, this event will identify policies and initiatives that promote digital and media competence at all levels of education and training and […]