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> From: Stephen Lacey <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 11 March 2005 09:32:19 GMT
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Regional TV drama - one-day symposium April 9
> Reply-To: Stephen Lacey <[log in to unmask]>
>
> *Apologies for cross posting*
>
> The deadline for booking for Television Drama in the Regions is Friday
> 18th March - please see below for booking and contact details. Hope to
> see you there.
>
> CONFERENCE
>
> Cultures of British Television Drama: 1960-82
>
> TELEVISION DRAMA IN THE UK REGIONS (One-Day Symposium)
> Manchester Metropolitan University (Alsager campus): Saturday 9th
> April 2005
>
>
> A unique one-day symposium that brings together academics in the field
> of television drama studies and television professionals (including
> Alan Bleasdale, Philip Purser and David Rose) to debate the
> definition, history and legacy of regional television drama.
>
> Organised under the auspices of the AHRB- funded research project
> 'Cultures of British Television Drama: 1960-82', this one-day
> symposium will focus on regional television drama, with particular
> reference to the output of Granada in the North-West and BBC regional
> drama from Pebble Mill (Birmingham). The symposium aims to give a
> platform to research that recognises the importance of television
> drama produced in, and/or representing, the UK regions to the post-war
> history of television.
>
> Topics for debate will include:
> Granada's A Family at War: region, class and the television community
> (Julia Hallam, University of Liverpool)
> Realism and authorship in regional drama - Colin Welland's Roll on 4
> O'Clock (Bob Millington, Edge Hill College).
> Granada's drama-documentaries: journalistic constraints and 'bad
> drama' (Peter Goddard, University of Liverpool).
> Coronation St.: masculinity and sexuality (Phil Lumby, University of
> Wolverhampton)
> Pre-Troubles television drama from Northern Ireland (Andrew Hill,
> University of Ulster)
> Debating regionality: Granada and BBC English Regions Drama -
> contrasting models of the television region, 1960-82 (Lez Cooke,
> Manchester Metropolitan University)
>
> A highlight of the conference will be two panel discussions, drawing
> together television professionals working in Granada and BBC regional
> drama from the 1960s to the 1980s. The following industry panellists
> have all confirmed their attendance: James Brabazon, Michael Cox,
> Julia Jones, Philip Purser, Alan Bleasdale, Peter Ansorge and David
> Rose. (Brief biographies below)
>
> The event will also include a screening of a rare Second City Firsts
> 30 mins play, Early to Bed (BBC2, 20 March 1975; w. Alan Bleasedale,
> pr. Barry Hanson, dir Les Blair).
>
> Cost: £25 and £10 student concession (includes coffee, tea and lunch).
>
> The day will begin at 10.00 (coffee and registration) for a 10.30
> start, and will finish at 5.30 pm. For a detailed programme, along
> with a booking form and arrangements for payment, please contact
> Stephen Lacey - [log in to unmask] .
>
> Industry Panellists
>
> Peter Ansorge joined BBC English Regions Drama in 1975, working as
> script editor and producer on series such as Gangsters and Empire
> Road. He subsequently moved on to C4, becoming Head of Drama. He is
> the author of From Liverpool to Los Angeles: On Writing Theatre, Film
> and Television.
>
> Alan Bleasdale wrote his first television plays for BBC English
> Regions Drama, beginning with Early to Bed, in 1975, and culminating
> with Boys from the Blackstuff, in 1982. Since then his television
> serials have included Scully, The Monocled Mutineer, GBH and Jake's
> Progress.
>
> James Brabazon has worked as a writer, actor, story editor, producer
> and director for both the BBC (where his credits include John Hopkins'
> Talking to a Stranger) and Granada, where he worked from 1970-81 on a
> variety of programmes, including the WW2 drama serial, The Spoils of
> War.
>
> Michael Cox joined Granada in 1961 as trainee floor manager. For the
> next three decades he was a director, producer and drama executive at
> Granada, working on series such as The System, A Family at War, Sam
> and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
>
> Julia Jones wrote her first television plays for The Wednesday Play in
> the 1960s and continued writing for both the BBC and ITV until the mid
> 1990s. Her first play for Granada was Penny Wise, in 1968, and in 1972
> she wrote the seven-part series Home and Away.
>
> Philip Purser was television critic for the Sunday Telegraph for 26
> years and was a frequent contributor to the TV quarterly Contrast in
> the 1960s, writing a regular column on ITV drama. More recently he has
> written about the early years of Granada drama in Granada Television:
> The First Generation.
>
> David Rose produced Z Cars at the BBC from 1962-65 and was Head of BBC
> English Regions Drama at Pebble Mill from 1971-81, when he left to
> become Senior Commissioning Editor for Fiction at C4. He was awarded a
> BAFTA Fellowship in 1997.
>
>
> 'Cultures of British Television Drama: 1960-82' is co-directed by
> Stephen Lacey (MMU), Dr Jonathan Bignell (Reading) and Prof John Ellis
> (RHUL) and combines analytical and archival study of British
> television drama programming between these years (roughly, from the
> expansion of TV drama in the wake of Armchair Theatre to the coming of
> Channel 4). The project focuses in particular on popular generic
> television drama in the period, institutional cultures and practices
> and regional drama output (Granada and Pebble Mill). This symposium is
> the fourth in a series of symposia/conferences organised in
> conjunction with the Centre for Television Drama Studies at Reading
> which will culminate in a major international conference at the
> University of Reading in September 2005. For details, please contact
> Helen Wheatley at: [log in to unmask] .
>
> The Alsager campus is easily accessible by road, being three miles
> from Junction 16 of the M6, and by train (nearest station is Crewe, 6
> miles away). Map and travel directions can be accessed from the MMU
> website: http://www.mmu.ac.uk/about/locations/cheshire.php
>
> Enquiries concerning the symposium should be directed to:
> Stephen Lacey:
> Tel: 0161-247-5618; email - [log in to unmask]
> Department of Contemporary Arts
> MMU Cheshire
> Hassall Rd.,
> Cheshire
> ST7 2HL
>
> Or:
> Lez Cooke:
> Email - [log in to unmask]
>
>
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> Stephen Lacey
> Acting Head of Department
> Dept. of Contemporary Arts
> Manchester Metropolitan University
> MMU Cheshire
> Alsager Campus
> Hassall Rd
> Alsager
> Cheshire ST7 2HL
> 0161-247-5301 (direct line) 5303 (Dept. office)
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