Conference papers and public lectures
‘Gold, Silver or Bronze? The Archive, the Canon and Access’, FIAT/IFTA World Conference, (Dubrovnik, October 2019). (John Hill)
‘Academic Access to Television Archives’, FIAT/IFTA World Conference, (Mexico City, October 2017). (John Hill and Lisa Kerrigan)
‘Dominic Behan and the emergence of “Troubles” TV drama in the 1970s’, Irish Cinema: the National and the International, Trinity College, (Dublin, May 2016) (John Hill)
Julia Jones and Home and Away, Doing Women’s Film and Television History III: Structures of Feeling, De Montfort University/Phoenix Cinema, (Leicester, 18-20 May 2016). (Lez Cooke)
Pat Hooker: Writing for television in the 1970s at Doing Women’s Film and Television History III: Structures of Feeling, De Montfort University/Phoenix Cinema (Leicester, 18-20 May 2016). (Billy Smart)
Glance, gesture and inference in Hunters Walk (ITV/ATV 1973-76): Acting for multi-camera popular drama in the 1970s at Acting on Television (Reading, April 2016). (Billy Smart)
‘Pat Hooker: Writing for television in the 1970s’, University of London Screenwriting Research Seminar (Senate House, December 2015). (Billy Smart)
‘Pat Hooker: Forgotten pioneer of lesbian TV drama’, Southern Broadcasting History Group (University of Bournemouth, December 2015). (Billy Smart)
Tom Grattan’s War (Yorkshire Television/ ITV 1968-70): The Great War from a boy’s perspective at The Story of Children’s Television (Warwick, July 2015). (Billy Smart)
Presentation on The History of Forgotten TV Drama project at ‘Writing, Region and Class: Fiction, Film, TV and Theatre’ Workshop (University of Sheffield, 26 June 2015) (Lez Cooke)
“Half-hour studies in resentment”: Howard Barker as television playwright, 1972-4 at Television Drama: The Forgotten, the Lost and the Neglected (Royal Holloway, University of London, April 2015). (Billy Smart)
‘Regional British Television Drama: From Stage to Screen – The Television Plays of Peter Cheeseman’s Victoria Theatre Company in Stoke-on-Trent’, Television Drama: the Forgotten, the Lost and the Neglected, (Royal Holloway, University of London, 22-24 April 2015). (Lez Cooke)
‘The History of Forgotten Television Drama in the UK’, Archiving Tomorrow 2015 (Eaton Hotel, Birmingham, 12-13 March 2015). (Lez Cooke)
Two television reconfigurations of John Osborne: The Hotel in Amsterdam (ATV/ ITV 1971 and BBC4, 2004) at Theatre and Television: Adaptation, Production, Performance (Westminster, February 2015). (Billy Smart)
‘Anastasia (BBC, 1953): A Phoenix Rises from the Ashes’, Theatre and Television: Adaptation, Production, Performance, (University of Westminster, 19-20 February 2015). (Lez Cooke)
‘Douglas Camfield: Auteur director of popular television drama’ (University of Brighton, December 2014). (Billy Smart)
‘Women and Regional British Television Drama in the 1970s’, Re-imaging regional television drama: women as agents of cultural change (Edge Hill University, 11 September 2014). (Lez Cooke)
‘Sutherland’s Law (BBC Scotland 1973-76): Presenting Scottish landscape to a UK audience’, Screen Studies Conference: Landscape and Environment (Glasgow, June 2014) and Becoming Scotland: Screen Cultures in a Small Nation (Edinburgh, August 2014). (Billy Smart)
‘Sam (1973-75): An alternative iconography of Englishness’, Media and Place Conference, (Leeds Metropolitan University, 11-12 July 2014). (Lez Cooke)
‘Sam (1973-75): An alternative iconography of Englishness’, Screen Studies Conference: Landscape and Environment (University of Glasgow, 27-29 June 2014). (Lez Cooke)
‘The Politics of Place and Identity in “Troubles” TV Drama of the 1970s’, Screen Studies Conference: Landscape and Environment, (University of Glasgow, 28 June 2014). (John Hill)
‘Edwardian values, 1970s Television: John Galsworthy on BBC1’ at Edwardian Drama on the Small Screen (BFI Southbank, 23 May 2014). (Billy Smart)
‘Women and Forgotten British Television Drama’, Shoulder-to-Shoulder: Female Suffrage, Second-Wave Feminism and Feminist TV Drama in the 1970s (Birkbeck College, University of London, 16 May 2014). (Lez Cooke)
‘Drama on Two: Six and Five More’, BBC2: Origins; Influence; Audiences: A 50th Anniversary Conference, Science Museum (London, 25-26 April 2014). (Lez Cooke)
‘Blurring the Boundaries Between “Fact” and “Fiction”: Ken Russell, the BBC, and Monitor’, Imagining the Past: Ken Russell, Biography and the Art of Making History Conference, Université Libre de Bruxelles, (Brussels, 19 March 2014). (John Hill)
50 years ago: How much old Television is forgotten? at The History of Forgotten Television Drama in the UK (University of Ulster, Belfast, 21 February 2014). (Billy Smart)
Presentation at symposium on The History of Forgotten Television Drama in the UK, (University of Ulster, 21 February 2014). (Lez Cooke)
‘The Unknown Spaces of Television Archives: Researching the History of Forgotten Television Drama in the UK’, Spaces of television: Production, site and style, (University of Reading, 18-20 September 2013). (Lez Cooke)
The Patriot Game
Screenings, panels and interviews
Chairing of discussion panel on Philip Saville with Piers Haggard, Patricia Hodge and Cherie Lunghi at Philip Saville: An Enduring Talent (BFI Southbank, 23 May 2019). (Lez Cooke)
Introduction to screening of Carbon Copy and Black Feet in the Snow and interviews with the writer and director of Carbon Copy, Howard Schuman and Piers Haggard (BFI Southbank, 23 February 2019). (Lez Cooke)
Introduction to screening of Club Havana and You in Your Small Corner and interviews with producer Tara Prem, script editor Peter Ansorge and actor Don Warrington (BFI Southbank, 15 February 2019). (Lez Cooke)
Member of post-screening panel discussion on ‘Drama, She Wrote’ with Andrea Newman and Lisa Holdsworth. (BFI Southbank, 7 September 2018) (Billy Smart).
Introduction to ‘From the Nations: Television Made in Scotland and Wales’ and chairing of panel discussion on ‘HTV and STV in context’ with Douglas McNaughton and Jamie Medhurst (Royal Holloway, University of London, 24 November 2018). (John Hill)
Introduction to 40 Years of Grange Hill (Royal Holloway, University of London, 28 April 2018). (John Hill)
Introduction and post-screening presentation on The Debussy Film (The Electric Cinema, Birmingham, CBSO Debussy Festival, 22 March 2018). (John Hill)
Introduction to event and chairing of panel discussion at Missing Believed Wiped Northern Ireland (Queens Film Theatre, Belfast, 4 November 2017). (John Hill)
Introduction to screenings of Worm in the Bud and Would You Look at Them Smashing All the Lovely Windows (Beanbag Cinema, Belfast, 3 November 2017) (John Hill).
Introduction to screening of Danger, Men Working and presentation on the work of John D. Stewart (Queen’s Film Theatre, Belfast, 5 April 2017). (John Hill)
Introduction to screening of From the Roots Came the Rapper, Lamaload and Find Me First (HOME, Manchester, 29 March 2017). (Lez Cooke)
Introduction to screening of Home and Away (2 episodes) and interview with director Roy Battersby (HOME, Manchester, 27 March 2017). (Lez Cooke)
Introduction to screening of The Day of Ragnarok and The Logic Game (HOME, Manchester, 21 March 2017). (Lez Cooke)
Introduction to screening of Loyalties and interviews with Edward Fox and Charles Kay (BFI Southbank, 26 February 2017). (Billy Smart)
Introduction to screening of The Day of Ragnarok and Exit 19 and interviews with Tamara Hinchco and Jack Bond (BFI Southbank, 22 February 2017). (Lez Cooke)
Introduction to conference, closing remarks and chairing of panel discussion on ‘Research, Education and Use’ with Bill Thompson, Luke McKernan, Lisa Kerrigan, Virginia Haworth-Galt, Simon Coward and Jamie Medhurst at Television Drama Conference: Archives, Access and Research (BFI Southbank, 22 February 2017). (John Hill)
Chairing of panel discussion on ‘Archives, Information and Access’ with Jake Berger, Dale Grayson, Sue Malden, Gabriele Popp and John Wyver at Television Drama Conference: Archives, Access and Research (BFI Southbank, 22 February 2017). (Lez Cooke)
Introduction to screenings of The Nearly Man and The Eagle Has Landed and interviews with John Irvin and Jonathan Powell (BFI Southbank 13 February 2017). (John Hill)
Introduction to screening of It’s Dearer After Midnight and The House That Jigger Built (BFI Southbank, 10 February 2017). (Lez Cooke)
Introduction to screening of The Passionate Pilgrim (BFI Southbank, 8 February 2017). (Lez Cooke)
Chairing of discussion with Susan Engel, Anthony Page and Nicholas Wright following screening of The Hotel in Amsterdam (BFI Southbank, 2 February 2017). (Billy Smart).
Introduction to conference and chairing of discussion on ‘The forgotten 1970s drama of Granada Television’ with John Irvin and Jonathan Powell at Television Drama: the Forgotten, the Lost and the Neglected conference, (Royal Holloway, University of London, April 2015). (John Hill)
Interview on ‘The BBC Classic Serial’ with Terrence Dicks at Television Drama: The Forgotten, the Lost and the Neglected conference (Royal Holloway, Egham, April 2015). (Billy Smart)
Chairing of panel discussion on Second City Firsts with Philip Jackson, Tara Prem, Philip Saville and Jack Shepherd at Television Drama: the Forgotten, the Lost and the Neglected conference, (Royal Holloway, University of London, 23 April 2015). (Lez Cooke)
Introduction to work of Dominic Behan prior to screening of Carson Country at Queen’s Film Theatre, Belfast Film Festival, 18 April 2015 (John Hill).
Introduction to Johnson Over Jordon and interview with Hannah Gordon (BFI Southbank, February 2015). (Billy Smart)
Introduction to The Golden Road and interview with Katy Manning (BFI Southbank, February 2015). (Billy Smart)
Introduction to The Common and interview with Christopher Morahan (BFI Southbank, February 2015). (Billy Smart)
Introduction to BFI Southbank season and chairing of panel discussion on Second City Firsts with Peter Ansorge, Les Blair, Tara Prem and Alison Steadman (BFI Southbank, 3 February 2015). (Lez Cooke).
Introduction to screening of Anastasia (BFI Southbank, 10 February 2015) (Lez Cooke)
Introduction to screening of The Logic Game and Shotgun (BFI Southbank, 18 February 2015) (Lez Cooke)
‘Edwardian drama on television’, Billy Smart interviewed by John Wyver, (BFI Southbank, May 2014). (Billy Smart)
Introduction to screening of The Life of Galileo (BFI Southbank, February 2014). (Billy Smart)
Introduction to symposium on The History of Forgotten Television Drama in the UK and chairing of panel on ‘Researching the History of Northern Irish Television Drama’ with Ken Griffin and Martin McLoone (University of Ulster, 21 February 2014). (John Hill)
The Day of Ragnarok