Pub Date : 2022-06-23DOI: 10.1177/17496020221110362
Cat Mahoney
This article explores historical representations of Liverpool in two television dramas: ITV’s Cilla (2014) and the BBC’s Boys from the Blackstuff (1982). It is concerned with the ways that television drama can both record and recreate places from the past. Focussing on two dramas set in Liverpool at formative moments in the city’s past, it considers the centrality of an evocation of place and specifically the space of the city to both series and the ways that television dramas that mobilise such a strong sense place can become intrinsic to the heritage and history of the places they depict.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-08DOI: 10.1177/17496020221104960
Mary Irwin
Erlang is a new functional programming language designed for building large-scale industrial applica- tions. The language is especially suited for programming large-scale fault-tolerant real-time applications, and has many features which are essential for non-stop industrial applications. It provides the following: stopping the system.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-08DOI: 10.1177/17496020221104966
L. Hayward
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Pub Date : 2022-06-04DOI: 10.1177/17496020221105821
K. Gorton, Mark Helsby
This working paper focuses on women in leadership roles in the Entertainment Department of BBC North, based at New Broadcasting House on Oxford Road, Manchester and subsequently at Media City UK. In so doing, it considers the role of the department’s founder, Janet Street-Porter, and her leadership of the then Youth Programmes department in the late 80s/early 90s. Drawing on interviews with six women professionals who worked either during or just after Street-Porter’s leadership and scholarship on women in the UK media industry, this paper considers some of the reasons why this environment proved so fertile for our interviewees. We also reflect on some of the key issues the interviews provoked: the issue of balancing motherhood with a career in the UK television industry, the importance of women’s networks, and the impact of class in terms of working in the BBC. In this sense, the BBC was formative for our interviewees, particularly through the leadership of an ‘outsider’ like Street-Porter despite structural issues of exclusion that remained present in the organisation.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-02DOI: 10.1177/17496020221102064
Hollie Price
Using the BBC Written Archives Centre’s records, this working paper explores a documentary about the suffragettes written by feminist, socialist filmmaker Jill Craigie for the BBC in 1949 – illuminating her previously unconsidered efforts to bring the women’s movement to life in an innovative, modern way on the small screen. Although Craigie later withdrew from this project, this paper explores how archival traces of Craigie’s television work offer new insight into her postwar career as a filmmaker, writer and onscreen personality, and shine new light on her place in a feminist genealogy concerned with the historical fight for women’s rights.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-25DOI: 10.1177/17496020221103461
K. Murphy
This is a working paper on women and the early BBC television service, prior to September 1939. It considers women in four main areas of work: in production roles, in secretarial/clerical support work, in Makeup and Wardrobe, and as on-screen announcers. Apart from the latter two, which were developed especially for television, it shows a clear link with radio practices, particularly the possibility of women moving through the ranks. The paper argues that, had there not been a seven year hiatus for the Second World War, women would have reached elevated positions in the television service much sooner.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-18DOI: 10.1177/17496020221103469
K. Geddes
Cooking on television after WWII mainly addressed ‘the housewife’ audience, while women themselves were presenting television cooking programmes. History has largely forgotten the presenter Joan Robins, who appeared alongside Philip Harben and Marguerite Patten on BBC broadcasts of the late 1940s and 1950s. Robins specialised in ‘common-sense’ cookery, nutrition, and health, including a controversial slimming programme that featured advice that was later disputed by the British Medical Association. Robins’ ideas and innovations were not always welcomed by the BBC, who preferred more straightforward cookery demonstrations, resulting in her turning her back on broadcasting to concentrate on her other careers.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-12DOI: 10.1177/17496020221102051
Tom May
This article presents a range of hitherto unheard women’s testimonies of their experiences working in the BBC Drama Plays department during the 1970s and 1980s. It incorporates the subjective interview testimony of nine women who all worked on BBC1’s prestigious strand of one-off dramas, Play for Today (1970-84) to reveal commonalities and differences in their gendered work experiences. This incorporates topics such as discrimination, pay, working conditions, emotional labour and trade unionism. There is attention to what made working for the BBC unique, compared to ITV or independent production companies. It is discerned that BBC women workers generally saw the BBC as a meritocracy, but also that some regret the decline in the strength of television trade unions, which they saw as leading to a situation of pervasive exploitation in television today.
这篇文章展示了一系列迄今为止闻所未闻的女性在20世纪70年代和80年代在BBC戏剧部门工作的经历。它结合了9位女性的主观采访证词，她们都曾在BBC1台著名的一次性电视剧《今日游戏》(Play for Today, 1970-84)中工作，以揭示她们在性别工作经历中的共同点和差异。这包括歧视、薪酬、工作条件、情感劳动和工会主义等主题。人们关注的是，与ITV或独立制作公司相比，BBC的工作有何独特之处。可以看出，BBC的女性员工普遍认为BBC是一个精英管理机构，但也有一些人对电视行业工会力量的下降感到遗憾，她们认为这导致了今天电视行业普遍存在的剥削现象。
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Pub Date : 2022-05-12DOI: 10.1177/17496020221102086
M. Irwin
This working paper explores the significance of the work of the assistant head of BBC Television Talks and Features, Grace Wyndham Goldie, in the development of current affairs and documentary television which took place at the BBC in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Wyndham Goldie was central to these processes. She was passionately committed to the creation of a ‘neutral’ current affairs television, built upon the veracity of the live image. This same passion was not evident in her attitude to the production of documentary television, and she disdained the carefully crafted process of documentary filmmaking. Notably, while Wyndham Goldie was one of a very few women to reach the top of the BBC management ladder, she offered limited encouragement and support to other women working at the corporation.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-12DOI: 10.1177/17496020221100487
J. Osman
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