This month the BFI Southbank has been running a season of Jacobean dramas on television. It’s another output of the Screen Plays: Theatre Plays on British Television project, whose conference I wrote about last year. The project aims to document, revalue and champion the largely lost tradition of theatre plays being presented on TV. TheRead More
1. I remember thinking there was nothing more beautiful than fog on a football field. 2. I remember cuckoo spit. 3. I remember being frightened of Wass Water in the Lake District because the water was so dark and deep. 4. I remember wearing garters to hold up my socks. 5. I remember Nina BadenRead More
“Ten years ago, there was a very real danger of a black hole opening up and swallowing our digital heritage, with millions of web pages, e-publications and other non-print items falling through the cracks of a system that was devised primarily to capture ink and paper. The regulations now coming into force make digital legalRead More
The British Film Institute has issued a new version of its database, which is a huge improvement on what has been available online before now. The new service, BFI Collections Search, for the first time combines its bibliographic, filmographic and technical databases, something the BFI has been trying to engineer for years (decades even). ThisRead More