Comics Britannia season launches on BBC Four

BBC Four is set to explore the wonderful world of comic books in a new three-part series celebrating one the of most powerful achievements of British popular culture – the classic comic strips generations of us have grown up with over the past 70 years.

From the Beano to Bunty, Commando to Viz, The […]

“We must put our house in order” demands Director-General in tough response to further disclosures

BBC Director-General Mark Thompson today announced a package of tough measures to address the discovery of further serious breaches of editorial standards across some areas of BBC programmes and content.
The further emerging breaches, revealed following a BBC-wide search of around one million hours of output since January 2005, were reported today by Mr Thompson to […]

BBC Autumn 2007 Season

Quality, range and talent dominate this autumn on BBC On

Behind closed doors with Her Majesty The Queen, an exclusive set of interviews with Tony Blair as he departs Number 10 and some of the best talent in the business, this is a stellar autumn season of programming on BBC One.
Peter Fincham, Controller, BBC One, […]

John Peel is the Broadcasters’ Broadcaster at the 25th Sony Radio Academy Awards

London 30th April: It was announced at the 25th Sony Radio Academy Awards, the UK’s most prestigious radio accolades, that the late great John Peel is The Broadcasters’ Broadcaster, a special one-off award to mark the anniversary year. The posthumous Award to John Peel, himself a multiple Sony Gold winner across three decades, was collected […]

When do we publish a secret?

The following is an article that has appeared in both the LA Times and the New York Times. The article, written by the editors of the two newspapers, Dean Baquet and Bill Keller. The New York Times, and then the L.A. Times, published revealing articles about the secret banking records surveillance program last week, and […]

Harold Pinter - Nobel Lecture - Art, Truth & Politics

In 1958 I wrote the following:
‘There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.’
I believe that these assertions still make sense and do still […]

YOUR Video - A practical guide to planning and creating effective videos

In consultation with community groups, Our Video has developed an accessible “Toolkit” through which communities can produce their own video and multi media content, at low cost and distribute it across the internet. This project brings together community media and recent digital technology developments in a project that is explicitly designed to systematise the approach […]

“Some People Push Back” - On the Justice of Roosting Chickens

Ward Churchill (Keetoowah Band Cherokee) is one of the most outspoken of Native American activists. In his lectures and numerous published works, he explores the themes of genocide in the Americas, historical and legal (re)interpretation of conquest and colonization, literary and cinematic criticism, and indigenist alternatives to the status quo. Churchill is a Professor of […]