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UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
FACULTY OF HISTORY
PUBLIC HISTORY
History programming and the future of radio
Talk and Discussion
with
Mark Damazer
Controller of BBC Radio 4 and BBC 7
Tuesday, 8 May 2007, 5pm,
Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Which stories that historians have to tell make it through to a mass
audience? To what extent does the medium determine the message? Do new
forms of broadcasting - like digital networks - allow for more experimental
and innovative formats? And considering the omnipresence of TV history,
what is the specific contribution of history programmes on radio to the
menu of history narratives on offer to the public?
As Head of BBC Radio 4 and BBC 7, Mark Damazer is the perfect person to
provide us with an insight into the commissioning process of history on
radio. Not only that, he also studied history as an undergraduate at Caius
and has retained a very strong interest in history ever since. His brief:
What do radio producers know about their audiences, what feedback system is
in place to judge the succes of any given production, how does this
influence the commissioning process? In view of the contribution that
public history makes to the formation of collective identities, how does
the BBC deal with the political question of the balance between
British/European/global history productions? In future years, will the
twentieth century become THE focus of audio-history because of the
abundance of sound sources (and the self-referentiality of the media)?
For more information, please contact
Dr Bernhard Fulda ([log in to unmask]).
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