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Time: 17.30 – 19.15
Venue: Deeprose Lecture Theatre

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Time: 17.30 – 19.15
Venue: Deeprose Lecture Theatre

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Time: 17.30 – 19.15
Venue: Deeprose Lecture Theatre

This event is hosted by the Centre for Research in Life Long Learning

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Time: 17.30 – 19.15
Venue: Deeprose Lecture Theatre

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Time: 17.30 – 19.15
Venue: Deeprose Lecture Theatre

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Time: 17.30 – 19.15
Venue: Deeprose Lecture Theatre

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Time: 17.30 – 19.15
Venue: Deeprose Lecture Theatre

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The current period marks the fiftieth anniversary of a series of changes that happened to British television in the early 1960s  - a time of rapid liberalisation and innovation that has come to be looked upon nostalgically by some as a kind of 'golden age'.  From the invention of TV satire programmes with 'That Was the Week That Was' to edgier sit-coms like 'Steptoe and Son' and perhaps most famously for us now, the creation and launch of 'Doctor Who' in 1963, certainly the period 1962-3 can be said to be the time when television in Britain started to take on a shape we can still recognise today.      

But how has television changed since the 1960s and what have been the drivers of change ?  'Reflections on a Golden Screen' will offer an illustrated journey through some of the highlights (and lowlights) of the development of British television in the last fifty years at a time when the cultures and practices of British TV have never been under more public scrutiny following the recent Jimmy Savile child abuse scandals.  The lecture will examine how the structures of British television production have been transformed over the last fifty years and consider what have been some of the strengths, as well as some of the weaknesses, of these changes.  Finally, it will look to the future of television in the digital age: will British TV still exist and be recognisable in the form we know it today in another fifty years' time ?  What will survive and what will perish ?  Illustrated by clips from some influential British TV programmes of the last fifty years, the lecture will explore through a series of arguments, plus some personal stories and anecdotes about its writers, directors and producers, what it is about the particular character of British TV that still seems to matter to so many in the twenty-first century.  

BIO: John Cook is Professor of Media at Glasgow Caledonian University and is a leading internationally recognised scholar on British television and television drama.  He published the first full-length book study of famous TV playwright Dennis Potter (author of 'The Singing Detective') in 1995, having been the only academic researcher to interview Potter prior to his death in 1994.  He is also a leading international expert on the films of Peter Watkins (director of seminal BBC docudramas 'Culloden' [1964] and 'The War Game' [1965]), having gained unique access to Watkins' personal archive plus an exclusive invitation by Watkins to witness the shoot of the director's last film, 'La Commune (Paris 1871)', released in 2000.  Professor Cook has also published and edited works on British science fiction TV (including 'Doctor Who') and on screenwriting.                 

Time: 17.30 – 19.15
Venue: Deeprose Lecture Theatre

A unique feature in the development of all mature economies has been an

absolute decline in child employment. This lecture speculates about that

unique decline in the context of long-term economic growth in England

and Wales. It focuses on the child labour market, the household economy

and the life-cycles of children and adolescents and suggests ways in which

economic and demographic developments not normally associated with

the history of child labour may have contributed to its secular decline.

Several discussion points will be considered, including the effects of child

dependency, poverty, the age at leaving home, diverse sectoral demand for

child workers, industrialisation, state intervention and the structure of the

urban labour market.

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Time: 17.30 – 19.15
Location: GCU

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Time: 17.30 – 19.15
Location: GCU

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• The Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare

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Time: 17.30 – 19.15
Location: GCU

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• School of Life Sciences

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Please be advised that this lecture has now been postponed and will now take place in early 2012.

Time: 17.30 - 19.15

Venue: Deeprose Lecture Theatre

This event is hosted by the School of Health and Life Sciences.

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