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- Ken Key on Recording ‘Public Eye’ (ABC) on location in Birmingham (1966)
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- Costume and space: Inspector Morse in his pyjamas
- Landscape in the Studio: Play for Today: Desert of Lies (BBC, 13/3/84)
- The Stripped-Down Studio Space: Play for Today: Psy-Warriors (BBC, 12/5/81) & Centre Play: The Saliva Milkshake (BBC, 6/1/75)
- Mixing Genres in the Studio: Playhouse: The Journal of Bridget Hitler (BBC2, 6/2/81)
- Studio trickery: Censored Scenes From King Kong (BBC, 1973) & Play For Today: The After Dinner Joke (BBC, 14/02/78)
Tag Archives: Play for Today
BFI Season: Dramatic Spaces: The Imaginative World of the Television Studio
We are delighted to announce our forthcoming season of television plays at BFI Southbank in February 2014, ‘Dramatic Spaces: The Imaginative World of the Television Studio’, curated by Leah Panos and Billy Smart of the Spaces of Television project. Featuring … Continue reading
Posted in BFI Screening Series, News
Tagged BBC, CSO, Don Taylor, Experimental drama, Howard Schuman, Naturalism, Play for Today, Theatre Plays on TV
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The Cherry Orchard (BBC, 1981)
Although only a handful of stage adaptations for British television were ever made on location on outside broadcast (OB), the technologies and working practices could also be used inside, as well as away from, the studio. This unusual method of … Continue reading
Posted in Single Plays
Tagged Anton Chekhov, Cherry Orchard, Outside Broadcast, Play for Today, Richard Eyre, Trevor Griffiths
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