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April
2007
Gillian Reynolds MBE is a Liverpool born journalist and broadcaster. During her career, she has worked as Radio Critic for the Guardian and for the Daily Telegraph, as well as Programme Controller of Radio City, Liverpool. She has served as Member and Vice Chair of the Art Council of England’s Film and Video Broadcasting Panel. She was a Member of the National Sound Archive Advisory Council, and chairs the Charles Parker Archive Trust at the Central Library, Birmingham. She is a Council member of the Broadcasting Committee of the Society of Authors.
Hear her in her second conversation in the last 6 months with John Mair, with her view on the health of commercial radio in the U.K.
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26
April
2007
Anne Wood, Stratford based Ragdoll’s Founder and Creative Director talks to John Mair in the Coventry Conversations series about her work, her remarkable success with Teletubbies and her most recent and ambitious project, “In the Night Garden”
In The Night Garden (100×30’ episodes) is intended for children aged 1-3 and has been devised by Anne Wood and Andrew Davenport, the partnership responsible for Teletubbies.
As with Teletubbies, it has international appeal and a breadth of scale to establish a new standard for pre-school television.
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25
April
2007
The man who produced the award-winning British film, “The Queen” has swapped the red carpet of Hollywood for a Coventry University lecture hall this week.
Andy Harries, who saw Dame Helen Mirren win the Oscar for her outstanding performance as the Queen, spoke to John Mair, as part of the Coventry Conversations series.
Andy was appointed Controller of Drama and Comedy in 2000 having spent seven years creating and running Granada’s acclaimed Comedy Department. In his capacity as Controller of Comedy, he oversaw programmes including Cold Feet for ITV1, which won a BAFTA (Best Drama 2002); The Mrs Merton Show (1997 BAFTA Best Talk Show) and The Royle Family for BBC1 (2000 BAFTA Situation Comedy).
As Controller of Drama, Comedy and Factual Drama, Andy’s departmental output has been prolific. Productions range from Hot Money and My Beautiful Son for ITV1 to the adaptation of The Forsythe Saga and Dr Zhivago. In 2003, he supervised BAFTA Award-winning The Deal for Channel 4, Henry VIII and Donovan, the critically acclaimed dramas Wall of Silence and Danielle Cable: Eyewitness and the Prime Suspect. In 2004 he launched Life Begins, Island at War, Tell Me Lies, Planespotting, Angell’s Hell and Christmas Lights.
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24
April
2007
The woman who was responsible for getting the Chelsea Flower Show onto the television for the BBC talks to Coventry Conversations organiser, John Mair.
The Chelsea Flower Show is a vital part of the English summer for those fortunate enough to visit the show but to those who watch it on the small screen, it has to capture the spectacle of the event live for 10 hours each year.
Karen Arrand was the BBC producer responsible for bringing the show into our living rooms in 2000 to 2003.
Karen took over the Show when it came back to the BBC after Channel Four had televised it for a few years. She transformed it into a great watch which generated the biggest audience for BBC Two in 2002 and 2003.
Karen managed large teams in front as well as behind the camera working with some of the best known names in the gardening world.
Karen shares with the audience how the televising of the Chelsea Flower Show was done and look at some of the highs as well as the lows and what lessons she learned doing it all.
Karen now lectures part-time in Media Production at Coventry University
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19
April
2007
Kath Worrall is Chair of the Fairness Committee of the Office of Communications – charged by law with making sure that what is broadcast is fair, decent and does not invade privacy. These are some of the most contentious issues in the modern media. Judging the public mood and the line to take is not an easy job – she currently has 40,000 complaints about the last series of ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ on her desk.
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17
April
2007
Mark Thompson was appointed Director-General of the BBC on 21 May 2004, after being Chief Executive of Channel 4 since December 2001. Hear him give a lecture on “Media in an age of Moral Ambiguity” recorded at Coventry Cathedral on 17 April 2007 as part of the Coventry Conversations series.
This talk is also available to watch on CUTV.
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