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Recent Gateway updates
Published: 28 March 2012The Bioscope This indispensable resource is devoted to the world of early and silent cinema and is one of the busiest and most successful available on the web. Mixing scholarship, news and conference reports as well as reviews, it provides a wealth of information about the silent era worldwide. The site, along with almost daily …
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BUFVC Weekly Top 5 TV & Radio Programme Requests
Published: 16 March 2012For the week ending 2 March 2012 the most requested titles from the BUFVC Off-Air Back-Up Service include programmes on politics, the British class system, philosophy and race relations. 1. YES MINISTER (BBC2) View TRILT record For more information visit the BBC website 2. MELVYN BRAGG ON CLASS AND CULTURE (BBC2) View TRILT record or …
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The way to search BUFVC collections is changing
Published: 15 March 2012You can now search 9 of the BUFVC’s collections straight from the BUFVC homepage (beta version). View almost 14 million film, television and radio records, dating from 1896 onwards, via a single search box. The new simple way to search will open up the stand-alone collections allowing you to discover new content and unexplored collections. …
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BBC launch: The Listening Project
Published: 9 March 2012BBC 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 …
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BUFVC Weekly Top 5 TV & Radio Programme Requests
Published: 9 March 2012For 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 …
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BBFC Symposium
Published: 7 March 2012Cuts 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: …
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BUFVC Weekly Top 5 TV & Radio Programme Requests
Published: 2 March 2012For 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) …
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BUFVC Weekly Top 5 TV & Radio Programme Requests
Published: 21 February 2012For the week ending 17 February 2012 the most requested titles from the BUFVC Off-Air Back-Up Service include programmes on farming, child rearing and the underprivileged. 1. SUPER SMART ANIMALS (BBC1) View TRILT record or watch now on BoB National For more information visit the BBC website 2. FIVE DAUGHTERS (BBC1) View TRILT record or …
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New British Library Sounds website
Published: 21 February 2012The British Library has launched its Sounds website http://sounds.bl.uk The new website allows users to listen for free to 50,000 tracks of music, spoken words and environmental sounds. Listeners at licensed UK universities and colleges may additionally download tracks for their research. The site’s large holdings have been organised into nine main collections, which include: …
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CFP: British and Irish Sound Archives 2012
Published: 17 February 2012British and Irish Sound Archives (BISA) invites submissions for presentations to be given at this year’s conference and training event on Friday 18th and Saturday 19th May 2012 at the Norfolk Record Office, Norwich. We Are looking for Ppapers and presentations are usually scheduled for the Friday with Saturday morning features a training session. Papers …
