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British films of the 1970s

British films of the 1970s

Paul Newland

... the Month (BBC, 1965–83), and one-off dramas such as the BBC's Abigail's Party (Mike Leigh, BBC, 1977), The Stone Tape (Peter Sasdy, BBC, 1972), and Penda's Fen (Alan Clarke, BBC, 1974). I certainly recognise that, as Dave Rolinson ...
The BBC: Myth of a Public Service

The BBC: Myth of a Public Service

Tom Mills

The BBC: the mouthpiece of the Establishment? The BBC is one of the most important institutions in Britain; it is also one of the most misunderstood.
A Public BBC: First Report of Session 2004-05, Vol. 2: Oral ...

A Public BBC: First Report of Session 2004-05, Vol. 2: Oral ...

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BBC Funding l8. We remain strongly committed to the licence fee as the primary source of BBC funding — with the further belief that future licence fee settlements should be set at a sufficiently high level and that the BBC should have full and ...
Further Issues for BBC Charter Review: 2nd Report of Session ...

Further Issues for BBC Charter Review: 2nd Report of Session ...

Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Select Committee on the BBC Charter Review

CHAPTER 5: THE BBC WORLD SERVICE Introduction 56. The Government's Green Paper states that as part of the BBC's core public purposes it should bring "high-quality international news coverage to a global audience through radio, ...
Annual Report and Accounts

Annual Report and Accounts

British Broadcasting Corporation

BBC Radio 5 Live The BBC's news and sport network BBC Radio 5 Live - now in its fifth year - has gone from strength to strength.The l 998 Sony Station of the Year BBC Radio 5 Live attracted l 00,000 more listeners during l 998/99, with most ...
Auntie''s War: The BBC during the Second World War

Auntie''s War: The BBC during the Second World War

Edward Stourton

Edward Stourton is a sharp-eyed, wry and affectionate companion on the BBC’s wartime journey, investigating archives, diaries, letters and memoirs to examine what the BBC was and what it stood for.
Essential Radio Skills: How to Present a Radio Show

Essential Radio Skills: How to Present a Radio Show

Peter Stewart

"One of the few books we'd recommend" BBC Training "The perfect guide for anyone who wants to get on in this ever-changing and challenging media" Controller BBC Radio 5 Live "A rich repository of real, practical experience" Director - BBC ...
Can We Trust the BBC?

Can We Trust the BBC?

Robin Aitken

This book asks a big question: can we trust the BBC?
BBC annual report 2008-09: fifth report of session 2009-10, ...

BBC annual report 2008-09: fifth report of session 2009-10, ...

Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Culture, Media and Sport Committee

Ql Chairman: Good morning. This is the Committee's annual session in which we take evidence on the BBC's annual report and accounts for the previous financial year, and I would like to welcome this morning the Chairman of the BBC Trust, ...
Behind the Wireless: A History of Early Women at the BBC

Behind the Wireless: A History of Early Women at the BBC

Kate Murphy

Behind the Wireless tells the story of women at the BBC in the 1920s and 30s.
Bad News: How America's Business Press Missed the Story of ...

Bad News: How America's Business Press Missed the Story of ...

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22 Steve Schifferes, “Foreclosure Wave Sweeps America,” BBC News Web site, November 5, 2007, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7070935.stm; Steve Schifferes, “Housing Meltdown Hits U.S. Economy,” BBC News Web site, November 9 ...
The BBC at the Watershed

The BBC at the Watershed

Ken Bloomfield

This fascinating account of Bloomfield’s tenure at the BBC captures a period of uncertainty and change, accompanied by Bloomfield’s own rich remembrances of the entire period—a volume not to be missed by anyone with an interest in ...
Victory Through Harmony: The BBC and Popular Music in World ...

Victory Through Harmony: The BBC and Popular Music in World ...

Christina L. Baade

This book tells the fascinating story of the BBC's participation in the events of World War II through popular music and jazz broadcasting.
The BBC and Ultra-Modern Music, 1922-1936: Shaping a ...

The BBC and Ultra-Modern Music, 1922-1936: Shaping a ...

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This book, first published in 2000, examines the BBC's attempts to manipulate critical and public responses to contemporary music between 1922 and 1936.
BBC Wildlife Magazine

BBC Wildlife Magazine

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... cat in Ice Age - this book is an inspiring way to support tiger conservation work. BBC WILDLIFE SHOP Order on p75, quoting code W0606/13 THE ETHICAL TRAVEL GUIDE By Polly Pattullo with Orely Minelli for Tourism Concern Earthscan.
Step This Way... Mr Lynam: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

Step This Way... Mr Lynam: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

Francis Ponder

... Roger Buxton, Steve Houghton, Shaun Peel (now a BBC Look East TV presenter), Jonathan Overend (now BBC 5 Live) and Mark Pougatch (currently plying his trade between Radio 5 Live and as ITV's anchorman for their football coverage) ...
Unruly Women: Performance, Penitence, and Punishment in ...

Unruly Women: Performance, Penitence, and Punishment in ...

Margaret E. Boyle

BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6375683.stm. 2 Jeannine Stein,“Miley CyrusQuipsabout Marijuana.”Los Angeles Times. http:// articles.latimes.com/2011/nov/28/news/lahebmiley cyrusmarijuanahealth20111128.
Inside the BBC and CNN: Managing Media Organisations

Inside the BBC and CNN: Managing Media Organisations

Lucy Küng-Shankleman

Inside the BBC and CNN provides a unique insight into two of the world's best-known media organisations, during a period of great change and new challenges.
Reporting Disasters: Famine, Aid, Politics and the Media

Reporting Disasters: Famine, Aid, Politics and the Media

Suzanne Franks

Using privileged access to BBC and Government archives, Reporting Disasters examines and reveals the internal factors which drove BBC news and offers a rare case study of how the media can affect public opinion and policymaking.
Google Services

Google Services

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443”Microsoft offers browser choices to Europeans” http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/ technology/ 8537763.stm. BBC News. 2010-03-01. Retrieved 2010-05-13. 444Peteris Krumins (2008-09-05). ”Code reuse in Google Chrome Browser” ...
Sport and Sundays: Christian BBC Presenter Dan Walker Tells ...

Sport and Sundays: Christian BBC Presenter Dan Walker Tells ...

Dan Walker

Illustrated story of Dan Walker, BBC sports presenter, and how Sunday is special to him
Voices of Scottish Journalists: Recollections of 22 Scottish ...

Voices of Scottish Journalists: Recollections of 22 Scottish ...

Ian MacDougall

Library, Inverness, Alasdair M. Sutherland, Local Studies, Angus Council, Catherine K. Dunlop, East Ayrshire Council, Marjorie Donald, A.K. Bell Library, Perth, Kirsty Crawford, BBC Scotland, Louise North, BBC Written Archives Centre , ...
The BBC National Short Story Award 2011:

The BBC National Short Story Award 2011:

M.J. Hyland

‘We are living through a golden moment in the history of the short story,’ wrote The Guardian recently, and the annual BBC National Short Story Award is both a testament to this, and one of the reasons why we are.
''The Simpsons''

''The Simpsons''

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5Martyn, Warren; Wood, Adrian (2000). ”Bart Gets an F” http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ simpsons/ episodeguide/season2/page1.shtml. BBC. Retrieved 2007-08-30. 6Martyn, Warren; Wood, Adrian (2000). ”The Simpsons Hallowe'en Special” ...
Guide to Methodology in Ergonomics: Designing for Human Use, ...

Guide to Methodology in Ergonomics: Designing for Human Use, ...

Neville A. Stanton

Action execution will comprise taking a hand off the steering wheel and moving it toward the in-vehicle device, homing in on the audio button, selecting the audio button, homing in on the BBC Radio 5 Live button, and selecting the BBC Radio ...
Ezra Pound's Radio Operas: The Bbc Experiments, 1931-1933

Ezra Pound's Radio Operas: The Bbc Experiments, 1931-1933

Margaret Fisher

In this study of Pound's radio operas of the 1930s, Margaret Fisher draws on the unpublished correspondence between Pound and his maverick BBC producer, Edward Archibald Fraser Harding, to reveal a little-known aspect of Pound's career.
Lies the Media Tell Us

Lies the Media Tell Us

James P. Winter

Steve Schifferes, “Tmstbusters: A history lesson," BBC News Online: In Depth: Microsoft," Feb 15, 2000, http://news.bbc.co.uk/I/low/in_depth/business/2000/ microsoft/635257.stm. l1. Steve Schifferes, “Trustbusters." I2. Henry Demarest Lloyd ...
Modular Science for Edexcel: Higher. Modules 1-6

Modular Science for Edexcel: Higher. Modules 1-6

Graham Booth

... 52 T BBC Wild/ Mark Payne~Gill, LM Oxford Scientific Films / William Gray, M BBC Wild/ Graham Hatherley, RM Science ... Tony Souter; 108 T CEC / Mark Boulton, B CEC / Mark Boulton; 109 CEC / Mark Boulton; 110 Environmental Images; ...

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