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1 Department of Media Arts Royal Holloway, University of London

2  Research Team  Professor John Hill (Principal-Investigator)  Dr Lez Cooke (Co-Investigator)  Dr Billy Smart (Research Assistant)

3  to uncover a 'lost' history of UK television drama  BBC: 1946-82  ITV: 1955-82  particular focus on regional drama production

4  to produce an alternative history of television drama in the UK that will:  add to our knowledge of television history  challenge ideas concerning the television drama 'canon‘  encourage awareness of the regional diversity of television drama

5  collaborate with regional and national archives to establish the existence and availability of regionally-produced dramas  make this drama better-known and more accessible through screenings and publications  record interviews with selected production personnel who worked on 'forgotten' dramas

6 (Any or all of the following may apply)  Lost or not recorded (e.g. live drama)  Extant but unavailable (e.g. no DVD release)  Not repeated since first transmission  Lack of critical attention (at the time or since)  Absent from histories of TV drama (not part of the ‘canon’)

7  Symposium on Forgotten TV Drama in Belfast (February 2014)  Season of ‘Forgotten Drama’ at BFI Southbank (February 2015)  Conference: Television Drama: the Forgotten, the Lost and the Neglected (Royal Holloway, 22-24 April 2015)  Special Issue of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television  Book on The History of Forgotten Television Drama in the UK  Various articles and book chapters

8  Second City Firsts: Early to Bed (BBC2, 1975) + Jack Flea’s Birthday Celebration (BBC2, 1976)  Anastasia (BBC, 1953)  Johnson Over Jordan (BBC2, 1965)  The Logic Game (BBC2, 1965) + Shotgun (BBC2, 1966)  Pity About the Abbey (BBC2, 1965) + The Golden Road (ITV, 1973)  The Common (BBC2, 1973)

9  https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/mediaarts/research /thehistoryofforgottentelevisiondrama/historyoffor gottentvdrama.aspx https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/mediaarts/research /thehistoryofforgottentelevisiondrama/historyoffor gottentvdrama.aspx  https://forgottentelevisiondrama.wordpress.com https://forgottentelevisiondrama.wordpress.com


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