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Booking open for ‘Television Drama: the Forgotten, the Lost and the Neglected’, Royal Holloway College, Egham, 22 – 24 April 2015: FULL PROGRAMME

A major three-day conference dedicated to historical (mostly) British Television Drama is to take place at the Egham Campus of Royal Holloway College, University of London between Wednesday the 22nd and Friday the 24th of April.

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From Television World Theatre to the BBC Shakespeare: The fluctuating status of the classic play on BBC Television 1957-1985

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Post date August 1, 2014
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'Festival: Murder in the Cathedral' (BBC Television, 25 March 1964)

In a recent lecture, Huw Weldon, managing director of BBC television said: ‘We feel that, like the theatre at large, we should be wanting if we did not ceaselessly recreate the classics – Shakespeare, Sheridan, Shaw and so on.’ (Dunkley, Chris, ‘Review’, Radio Times, 27 March 1975, p.74)