Category Archives: People

Bob Baker interview and Spaces of Television panel at ‘Childhood and the Media’ conference at Leicester, 18 July

Posted on June 30, 2013 by billysmart

Professor James Chapman, co-investigator for the Spaces of Television project, will interview television writer, Bob Baker, as part of the programme for this year’s International Association for Media and History conference which runs from the 17th to the 20th July … Continue reading →

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Darrol Blake Interview Part III: Thirty Years Of Directing Soap Operas

Posted on June 8, 2013 by billysmart

In July 2011 Leah Panos and myself had the good fortune to interview veteran television director Darrol Blake in his Barnes Bridge home. In a career that spans fifty years, Darrol started as a Design Assistant at the BBC in … Continue reading →

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Darrol Blake Interview Part II: Directing for the BBC and Thames Television in the 1960s and 1970s

Posted on June 8, 2013 by billysmart

In July 2011 Leah Panos and myself had the good fortune to interview veteran television director Darrol Blake in his Barnes Bridge home. In a career that spans fifty years, Darrol started as a Design Assistant at the BBC in … Continue reading →

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Darrol Blake Interview Part I: Designing for the BBC in the 1950s and 1960s

Posted on June 8, 2013 by billysmart

In July 2011 Leah Panos and myself had the good fortune to interview veteran television director Darrol Blake in his Barnes Bridge home. In a career that spans fifty years, Darrol started as a Design Assistant at the BBC in … Continue reading →

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Beyond the Fourth Wall: Experiments in TV Drama: Samuel Beckett’s Plays on BBC TV

Posted on December 2, 2012 by spaces-of-television

Samuel Beckett is probably best known as a theatre dramatist, but there is a long history of BBC TV presenting dramas that he wrote for specifically for the medium, and also television adaptations of his theatre work (Bignell 2009). In … Continue reading →

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Beyond the Fourth Wall: Experiments in TV Drama: David Bowie in Baal (BBC, 1982)

Posted on November 2, 2012 by billysmart

Alan Clarke’s television production of Bertolt Brecht’s play Baal (BBC1, 2 March 1982) is being screened as part of the ‘Beyond the Fourth Wall: Experiments in TV Drama’ season at BFI Southbank on Friday 30 November. Booking details can be … Continue reading →

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Roger Marshall interview part III: Writing for television in America and the U.K., Euston Films and ‘The Sweeney’

Posted on October 1, 2012 by billysmart

Last February, I had the good fortune to interview one of the great screenwriters of British TV drama, Roger Marshall in his Richmond home. His extensive C.V. has included episodes of The Avengers, The Sweeney, The Professionals, two plays for … Continue reading →

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Roger Marshall interview Part II: ‘Missing From Home’ (1984) and Douglas Camfield

Posted on September 13, 2012 by billysmart

Last February, I had the good fortune to interview one of the great screenwriters of British TV drama, Roger Marshall in his Richmond home. His extensive C.V. has included episodes of The Avengers, The Sweeney, The Professionals, two plays for … Continue reading →

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Roger Marshall interview Part I: ‘Public Eye’

Posted on September 5, 2012 by billysmart

  Last February, I had the good fortune to interview one of the great screenwriters of British TV drama, Roger Marshall in his Richmond home. His extensive C.V. has included episodes of The Avengers, The Sweeney, The Professionals, two plays … Continue reading →

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