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JS: Aside from your established track record in television, you’d done a stint as Head of the BFI Production Board in the late 1970s. Was film always a personal passion? What were your reasons for...
Dorothy Hobson looks at the legacy of Channel 4's eduational output and the role played by the late Naomi Sargant. About the Author: Dorothy Hobson is Senior Lecturer & Course Leader at the University...
[caption id="attachment_47" align="alignleft" width="242"] David Rose with his BFI Fellowship Award[/caption] Producer David Rose, Channel 4’s first Commissioning Editor for Fiction, was honoured at a...
On the desk in front of me as I as write is a half-page advertisement from The Times of 10 October 1979. This treasured clipping, now creased and yellowing, is headed ‘The Fourth Television Channel:...
To celebrate the publication of the 100th issue of Viewfinder, the BUFVC’s quarterly print publication, Olwen Terris, the BUFVC’s Information Officer, takes a look at the long history of the publication....
A Licence to be Different: The Story of Channel 4 by Maggie Brown (BFI Publishing, October 2007), 368 pages, ISBN: 9781844572052 (paperback), £16.99; ISBN: 978-1844572045 (hardback), £50.00 Channel 4: The...
As Channel 4 draws the curtain on the eleven-year success of the Big Brother franchise, it continues to reap the rewards of being the producer of some of the most popular shows on television, including...
With the recent unprecedented multi-platform release (5th July 2013) of Ben Wheatley’s A Field in England, which has been variously described as “a psychedelic Western” (Sound on Sight), “a...
A new digital resource from BUFVC examines the entire output of the global television news agency UPITN for one month. Linda Kaye, BUFVC Research Executive, explores the significance of the agency in our...
To celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the launch of Channel 4, in November the University of Portsmouth held a two-day conference dedicated to the output of the UK’s fourth terrestrial TV channel. Dr...
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