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Tim Crook
By assessing the quality and representation of George Orwell on the radio - the radio dramas he wrote himself and the dramatizations and documentaries of his work by others -Tim…
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Editorial
Boom times for the Orwell Industry: A cause for celebration - by Richard Lance Keeble
Papers
George Orwell and Somerset Maugham: A comparative study - by Hassan Akram BBC…
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Radio Drama brings together the skills needed for radio drama, such as directing, writing and sound design, with media history and communication theory.
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A practice and theory guide that sets out the best methods in producing sound for multi-media and the academic theories that underpin the history and analysis of sound expression. It…
The second edition of The UK Media Law Pocketbook presents updated and extended practical guidance on everyday legal issues for working journalists and media professionals.
Presenting practical and theoretical resources on media law and ethics for the United Kingdom and United States of America and other legal jurisdictions such as France, Japan, India, China and…
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The true story behind the ‘Mrs Wilson’ series shown on US Masterpiece PBS and BBC Television. In this US and International edition investigative historian Tim Crook presents his unravelling of…
Audio Drama and Modernism traces the development of political and modernist sound drama during the first 40 years of the 20th Century.
Tim Crook (Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK)
Writing Audio Drama offers a comprehensive and intelligent guide to writing sound drama for broadcasting and online. This book uses original research on the history of writing radio plays in…
The Special Art of Editing and Annotating - by Richard Lance Keeble
'A Great Prop of the School': The Important Place of Sunderland Church High School in Understanding…
E. Phillips Oppenheim
East Africa, 1913. The disgraced English aristocrat Everard Dominey stumbles out of the bush, and comes face to face with his lookalike - the German Baron von Ragastein. Months later…
Rebel? Prophet? Relic? New Perspectives on Orwell
Guest EditorialOrwell’s Enduring Appeal - by Sarah Gibbs
KeynoteOrwell, My ‘Orwell’ - by John Rodden
Red Flags, Black Ties: Orwell’s…
EditorialHow the Spotlight is Increasingly Falling on the Powerful Women in Orwell’s life - by Richard Lance Keeble
Orwell in Marrakech - by Kevin Carter Orwell’s Aunt Nellie…
Explaining One of Orwell’s Strange Prejudices - by Richard Lance Keeble
Orwell’s Scottish Ancestry and Slavery - by Darcy Moore Menon, Orwell and the Yeats Fascism Debate -…
Dangers of Exploiting ‘Brand Orwell’ - by Richard Lance Keeble
Orwell in Burma: The Two Erics - by Darcy MooreColonial Collections: Investigating the Libraries of Burmese Days…
The Rich and Constantly Expanding Canon of George Orwell Studies - by Richard Lance Keeble
The True Artist: Poverty, Networking and Literary Artifice - by Darcy Moore Nineteen…
Letters from Paris Throw New Insights on Orwell - by Richard Lance Keeble
Orwell and the Secret Intelligence Service - by Darcy Moore The Problem with Julia -…
Special Tribute Issue to Professor Peter Davison
Contents
Peter Davison: A Giant Among Orwell Scholars - by Richard Lance Keeble
Tributes
'The Complete Works: Clear, Reliable, Scrupulous - and…
Tim Murray,Penny Crook
Other less frequent comparisons occur at larger scales, for example between cities or countries, acknowledging that the archaeology of the modern western city is also the archaeology of modern global…
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The archaeological assemblage from the Hyde Park Barracks is one of the largest, most comprehensive and best preserved collections of artefacts from any 19th-century institution in the world.
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Radio journalists have witnessed much of the history of the twentieth century. From early documentary recordings, to the ground-breaking war reporting of Ed Murrow and Richard Dimbleby, to the sophisticated…
