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CFP: Theatre Plays on British TV
Published: 17 January 2012The first conference arising from the AHRC-funded research project Screen Plays: Theatre Plays on British Television will be held at the University of Westminster on Friday 19 October 2012. Screen Plays is concerned with all plays written for the theatre that have been produced for British television since 1930. The project documents and develops new …
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Viewfinder online December updates
Published: 19 December 2011The latest Viewfinder news, reviews and articles have now been posted online at bufvc.ac.uk/viewfinder. These include A roundup of some of the latest film and media books published this month An interview with writer-director Barnaby Edwards about his educational audio company Textbook Stuff An analysis by Professor James Chapman of the making and reception of …
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Illuminations to film RSC’s ‘Julius Caesar’ in 2012
Published: 12 December 2011Illuminations, the arts production company responsible for the acclaimed filmed stage productions of Macbeth (2010) with Patrick Stewart and RSC’s Hamlet with David Tennant (2009), has just announced their next Shakespeare venture: Julius Caesar, as directed by the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Chief Associate Director Gregory Doran for the World Shakespeare Festival in 2012. The play, …
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Viewfinder Online
Published: 30 November 2011Viewfinder articles, news & reviews are now online.
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Singing Detective – Symposium
Published: 29 November 2011The Singing Detective – 25th Anniversary Event Saturday 10 December 2011 Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London The twenty-fifth anniversary of the six-part serial The Singing Detective , written by Dennis Potter and directed by Jon Amiel, occurs November-December 2011. The serial is regarded as a piece of landmark television …
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Radio 4 programmes on the financial crisis
Published: 22 November 2011To tie in with Radio 4′s continuing focus on the biggest global economic slowdown for six decades, the BBC has set up the Economies in Crisis web page that brings together a range of Radio 4 programmes broadcast over recent months looking at the economy, business and economic theory – from bailing out the banks …
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Shakespeare roundup
Published: 25 October 2011Roland Emmerich’s controversial new film Anonymous is released in UK cinemas this Friday (28 October) and it explores some of the theories that question whether Shakespeare did, or did not, in fact author the plays that we now ascribe to him. The film’s official website includes an amusing quiz to determine one’s level of knowledge …
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BUFVC Weekly Top 5 TV & Radio Programme Requests
Published: 5 October 2011For the week ending 30 September 2011 the most requested titles from the BUFVC Off-Air Back-Up Service include histories of cinema, language, disability and the 1951 Festival of Britain. 1. HOLIDAY HIJACK (CHANNEL 4) View TRILT record or watch now on BoB National More information is available from the Channel 4 website 2. THE STORY …
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40 million OU iTunes U downloads
Published: 5 October 2011The Open University now features alongside Stanford University in being one of the leading providers of audio and video recordings of lectures for free download via iTunes U. The online service, launched in 2007, currently provides 300 million downloads per year, with 350,000 lectures offered by over 1,000 universities around the world, including Harvard, Yale, …
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Online artists’ videos on Egypt
Published: 14 September 2011The LUX website is currently hosting an online exhibition of three short artists’ films about Mubarak and the Egyptian presidency: The President – Remix. In recent years a number of artists have started to salvage or restage archival images of the three long-term Egyptian presidents Nasser, Sadat and Mubarak and critically explore the relationships between …
