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News Archive for March, 2012

  • ECLAP 2012 Conference

    On 7 – 9 May 2012, the first international ECLAP conference on ‘Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment’ will take place in Florence, Italy. ECLAP – the e-library for performing arts – is a best practice network that brings together Europe’s most relevant performing arts content from a diverse range of institutions. […]

  • BBC launch: The Listening Project

    BBC Radio 4 today launches The Listening Project, an ambitious new partnership between BBC Local Radio, the BBC’s national radio stations and the British Library, which aims to capture the nation in conversation. The Listening Project will invite people across the UK to share an intimate conversation. Some of these conversations will be broadcast by […]

  • BUFVC Weekly Top 5 TV & Radio Programme Requests

    For the week ending 2 March 2012 the most requested titles from the BUFVC Off-Air Back-Up Service include programmes on linguistics, business studies, botany and philosophy. 1. FRY’S PLANET WORD (BBC2) View TRILT record or watch now on BoB National For more information visit the BBC website 2. DRAGON’S DEN: HOW TO WIN IN THE […]

  • Journal of European Television History and Culture released

    The Journal of European Television History and Culture has been launched today: http://journal.euscreen.eu. The Journal builds on recent digitisation initiatives in European archives and audiovisual libraries. It addresses the need for critical study of the cultural, social and political role of television in Europe’s past and present with the help of television material that is […]

  • BBFC Symposium

    Cuts and Categories: 100 years of the BBFC Wednesday 21 March 2012, from 12.00 to 18.00 De Montfort University, Leicester http://re-thinkingcinemaandtv.blogspot.com The Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre at De Montfort University, Leicester is hosting an afternoon symposium to mark the 100th anniversary of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC): The speakers are: […]

  • Science video competition

    Prove it! is an online video competition created by the British Science Association as part of this year’s National Science & Engineering Week (9 – 18 March) to get as many people as possible talking about science. The brief is to explain any aspect of ‘our world in motion’ in 30 seconds, from the motion […]

  • BUFVC Weekly Top 5 TV & Radio Programme Requests

    For the week ending 24 February 2012 the most requested titles from the BUFVC Off-Air Back-Up Service include programmes on Sport, the politics of apartheid, technology and medical care. 1. MOTD: 2010 FIFA WORLD CUP (BBC2) View TRILT record or watch now on BoB National For more information visit the FIFA website 2. THE WORLD AGAINST APARTHEID (BBC4) […]