Here is the programme for our Symposium on broadcasting, the NHS and public service
in the 1980s, 29 January 2010. Programme makers, media executives and academic
researchers will be discussing the radical changes to broadcasting under Margaret
Thatcher's governments.
The Symposium is free, but please register by e-mailing me:
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“There’s No Such Thing as Society”?
Broadcasting, the NHS and ‘the public’
A one day symposium at Bournemouth University
Talbot Campus
Friday 29 January 2010
preceded by a Casualty evening on Thursday 28th
The aim of the Symposium is to explore the challenges to the concept of ‘public service’
by Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative Governments of the 1980s, specifically in relation to
broadcasting and the National Health Service. The Symposium will consider the ways in
which changes in policy were reflected by the broadcast media across the genres, and the
ways in which a political project became part of the public discourse and popular culture.
Thursday 28 January
Rm W241
Weymouth House
6.00 pm The real Casualty
Screening: This Week Casualty Thames Television/ITV 25 May 1989
Following a weekend in the accident and emergency department, Kings College Hospital,
London.
6.30 Introduction to BBC1’s Casualty
Jonathan Powell
Head of Drama at BBC TV from 1985: Controller BBC1 1988-1992
who commissioned the series
6.45 Screening: Episode 1 ‘Gas’ 6 September 1986
7.45 Discussion and questions
Peter Salt Medical Adviser (the model for Charlie Fairhead) to be confirmed,
Jonathan Powell.
Chair: Sherryl Wilson
University of the West of England
who was a psychiatric nurse in the 1980s
8.15 end
Friday 29 January
Thomas Hardy Suite
The Coyne lecture theatre
9.15-9.45 Registration and coffee
9.45-10.00 Welcome
Barry Richards
Head of Research, Bournemouth Media School
Brief introduction to the research project
Patricia Holland
Principal Investigator ‘No such thing as society?” project
Bournemouth Media School
10.00- 11.30 Panel on Policy and public service in the 1980s
Tom O’Malley on broadcasting policy in the 1980s
Professor of Media Studies, Aberystwyth University
author of Closedown? The BBC and Government Broadcasting Policy 1979-1992
Co-editor of The Peacock Committee and UK Broadcasting Policy
Co-editor of the journal Media History (Routledge)
Stephen Iliffe on health policy in 1980s
Professor of primary care for older people. UCL School of Life and Medical Sciences
A GP and commentator in the 1980s
Ray Fitzwalter on ITV in the 1980s
Editor of World in Action in the 1980s then Head of Current Affairs at Granada Television
author of The Dream that Died: the Rise and Fall of ITV
Tony Stoller on Independent Local Radio
Chief Executive of the Radio Authority 1995-2003
Visiting Fellow in Bournemouth’s Centre for Broadcasting History Research
author of Sounds of Your Life: the history of Independent Radio in the UK
Chair
Kevin Marsh Editor BBC College of Journalism
BBC news editor in the 1980s. Editor of Radio 4 Today Programme to 2006
11.30-12.45 Panel on Radio and the NHS
Hugh Chignell on BBC radio current affairs: Analysis and File on Four
‘No such thing as society?” project
Bournemouth Media School
Georgia Eglezou on BBC Woman’s Hour
‘No such thing as society?” project
Bournemouth Media School
Emma Wray on Commercial Radio in the 1980s
‘No such thing as society?” project
Bournemouth Media School
Chair Tony Stoller
12.45-1.45 Lunch
sandwich lunch provided
1.45 The BBC and popular programmes in the 1980s
Jonathan Powell
Head of Drama at BBC TV from 1985: Controller BBC1 1988-1992
2.15-3.15 1980s Medical Fictions Panel
Heather Sutherland on BBC comedy and public service
University of Reading
Sherryl Wilson on G.F.Newman’s The Nation’s Health
‘No such thing as society?” project
University of the West of England
Psychiatric nurse in the 1980s
Chair Jonathan Powell
3.15-3.30 Tea
3.30-4.30 Factual Panel: observation and debate
Yvette Vanson on Channel Four and critical programming on the NHS
Television Director and Producer
Producer of Kentucky Fried Medicine 1988: Stitching up the NHS 1989
Nick Gray YTV’s Jimmy’s
Television Producer/Director, Jimmy’s and First Tuesday
Deviser/Producer of Jimmy’s 1987-1997.
Chair Stephen Iliffe
4.30-5.00 Closing speaker and plenary discussion
Reviewing broadcasting and public service in the 1980s:
Kevin Marsh
Editor BBC College of Journalism
BBC news editor in the 1980s. Editor of Radio 4 Today Programme to 2006
Research supported by AHRC award No: AH/E008682/1
How to get to Bournemouth University Talbot Campus
http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/about/transport_and_maps/getting_to_bournemouth_univ
ersity.html
Plan of Talbot Campus
http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/about/transport_and_maps/maps/pdf/talbot-campus.pdf
Header design by Lesley Banks http://www.rainerbanks.co.uk/
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