The history of television culture and production
We are pleased to announce a new season of Forgotten Television Drama at BFI Soutbank in May 2023. Curated by Lez Cooke this new season, the first at BFI Southbank since Forgotten Black TV Drama in 2019, provides an opportunity Read More …
The proceedings if the ‘Channel 4: Then and Now’ conference are now available to view. Held at BFI Southbank, 23-4 September 2022 on the occasion of the Channel’s 40th anniversary, the conference covered a wide range of topics, both past Read More …
The views of Belfast people experiencing the cultural upheaval of the 1960s and the onset of the Troubles were brought back to life in a powerful video exhibition curated by PhD researcher Rose Baker as part of the 2022 Belfast Read More …
The People’s Piazza: A History of Covent Garden will be broadcast on BBC Two on Sunday 13 November. Presented by David Olusoga, the documentary is a companion-piece to Storytrails, focusing on the hidden and untold stories of one of England’s Read More …
A restored vintage 1960s BBC outside broadcast van visited Founders Square on 20 October to coincide with the BBC’s 100th anniversary celebrations. The Department of Media Arts and the Centre for the History of Television Culture and Production invited the Broadcast Television Technology Trust Read More …
Following its 15-location tour across the UK, StoryTrails will be at BFI IMAX Waterloo for a special residency from Friday 23 September until Sunday 2nd October. This will bring hundreds of different stories and experiences together for the first time. Read More …
‘Channel 4: Then and Now’ will be streaming live, this Friday 23 and Saturday 24 September, 10.00-17.00 UK time https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXvkgGofjDzj1vXLyi9a6BFBFLRZa2jQB Tickets for the in-person event may also be purchased from the British Film Institute. Ticket details are here John Ellis Read More …
The BBC at 100 Symposium is taking place at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford and online, 13-15 September 2022. Organised by BBC 100 History Fellow, Marcus Collins, the symposium aims to take stock of research about the Read More …
With the BFI, we are organising this two day conference on the history and current state of Channel 4. This is part of BFI Southbank’s celebration of 40 years of Channel 4 in advance of its November anniversary. Royal Holloway’s Read More …
Nick Hall has recently co-authored an article with Jeannine Baker of Macquarie University entitled ‘Rigged against them: Women camera operators at the BBC during the 1970s and 1980s’ . Published in Women’s History Review (31: 4), the article draws upon Read More …