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Dear colleagues,
The MeCCSA Radio Studies Network is pleased to share more information about our forthcoming in-person conference marking the BBC’s centenary - BBC Radio 1922-2022: navigating the waves of change. Please see below the current draft programme for the in-person event taking place on Saturday 26th November, in the Postgraduate Centre, University of Bedfordshire, Luton.

Tickets are still available at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bbc-radio-1922-2022-navigating-the-waves-of-change-tickets-396992454117

We will also be meeting for informal networking drinks on the previous evening, 25th Nov, in Luton town centre: venue and time tbc. 

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Saturday 26th Nov

8.30 - 8.50 am Registration with refreshments

8.50 - 9.40 am Welcome/KEYNOTE ONE: Gurvinder Aujla-Sidhu 

9:50 - 11.20 am SESSION ONE

#Session 1, Strand A: International perspectives on political cultures of radio journalism and public service broadcasting. 
Rosemary Day, It's complicated – The BBC and the Irish 
Anne F. MacLennan, The Impact of the BBC on the CBC: Gladstone Murray, Special Committees of Radio Broadcasting, and the Canadian Radio League 
Aleksander Kocic, BBC in Scotland - national, regional and local: mission impossible?  
Paninee Boonlert, Public Service Broadcasting Principles: Lessons learned from BBC of the United Kingdom by Thai PBS of Thailand 

#Session 1, Strand B: Creative radio programming and popular culture(s). 
Kate Lacey, Everybody’s Scrapbook: BBC retrospectives in retrospect   
Martin Cooper, The BBC’s cultural resilience: how the nation’s broadcaster had spent decades satirising its own radio output. 
Neil Washbourne, Making sense of the implied listeners of BBC Radio 2: DJs at home and humorous features of programmes 
Timothy Vercellotti, The BBC and soft power at home: Promoting democracy through The Archers  

#Session 1, Strand C: Technologies, platforms and competition. 
Lawrie Hallett, Unlicensed Broadcasting and BBC Radio.
Caroline Mitchell, Flowing both ways? The Memorandum of Understanding between the UK Community Media Association and BBC English Regions - what are the benefits and challenges of closer working relationships between community radio stations and BBC Local Radio?*
Maxwell Modell, Redefining the Political Interview: Actively avoiding adversarialism and managing audience expectations on the Political Thinking with Nick Robinson podcast 
Andrew Scorgie, Streaming and Radio, and how a Multichannel environment can be adapted to the changing nature of listening habits.

11.20 - 11.40 am   Tea/Coffee break 

11.45 am - 1.15 pm	SESSION TWO

#Session 2, Strand A: Inclusivity and diversity across cultural and news programming.
Nina Robinson, The composition of staff in senior leadership positions in BBC radio newsrooms 
Kate Williams, BBC Radio 5live – to advent of rolling news on the BBC 
David Dunkley Gyimah, 180991 Black London: The importance of archive for Black British people and scholars, its agency, and how it threads autobiographical stories and challenges representation. 

#Session 2, Strand B: Creative approaches to educating, informing and entertaining the listener.  
Tim Wall, Serving the Swinging Public: BBC Radio and Jazz in Britain 1922 to 2022. 
Zara Healy, Won’t someone think of the Children’s (Hour)? The rise and fall of the BBC’s first radio programme for children (1922-1964) 
Paul Kerensa, The First Firsts of Broadcasting (an abridged version of his show “The First Broadcast: The Battle for the Beeb in 1922.”)
Jacob Goldman, Becoming Cyclonic: Shipping Forecasting, Forecasting Shipping.*

1.15 - 2.00 pm Lunch 

2.00 - 2.40 pm 	KEYNOTE TWO: David Hendy 

2.40 - 3.00 pm Tea/Coffee Break  

3.00 - 4.30 pm	SESSION THREE

#Session 3, Strand A:  Podcasting and Public Service Audio, panel featuring Kim Fox and Richard Berry, sponsored by Nottingham Trent University.	 

#Session 3, Strand B: Dramatic interventions: inclusivity at the Beeb?   
Tim Crook, Gertrude E Jennings: the pioneering one-act playwright, the BBC’s most produced original dramatist in its first three years of broadcasting.  
Leslie McMurtry, Town to Village to Hamlet to Hollow: Pilgrim on BBC Radio 4 
Marcus Collins, “The Talk Should Not Be Broadcast”: BBC Radio and Male Homosexuality in the 1950s.*

4.35 -6.00 pm	SESSION FOUR

#Session 4, Strand A:  The Archers and its fans: a panel of four papers from the Academic Archers network. 
Helen Burrows, The Archers as Cult and Culture – A Case Study in Radio Fandom and Informal Education 
Sarah Merry, The Script Hit the Fan: The Impact of Issue-Led Storylines on listeners’ engagement with ‘The Archers’ and its fandom 
Claire Astbury, Fans, Flouncers, Fundamentalists: Understanding Online Archers Fan Culture. 
Jerome Turner, Still @borsetpolice: re-viewing Archers fan fiction on Twitter (2011-17) 

#Session 4, Strand B: Delivering cultural diversity and opening up the airwaves. 
Ethan Lee, Themes and Motivations: An Alternative Framework for Understanding and Engaging Diverse Audiences at BBC Radio  
Liam McCarthy, From The Black Rose to the BBC Asian Network: BBC local radio and immigration 1968-1990. 
Aasiya Lodhi, A Mid-Century War of Position: Caribbean Writers and BBC Radio 
Ester Lo Biundo, London Calling Italy. BBC broadcasts during the Second World War. 

6 pm: Networking drinks to conclude the day, sponsored by the University Sheffield.

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We are delighted that some of the big names in radio studies, media/broadcasting history and cultural studies are joining us for this full day event, and it would be great to welcome some our colleagues from this list. Do book your ticket soon please, if you are interested in coming along, as we are close to finalising numbers.

Any queries, please email by reply here or to [log in to unmask] or find us on social media.

Best wishes
Jo

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