The British Library

Madsen, V. (Visiting researcher)

Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies
Centre for Media History (CMH)

Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution

Description

2 months visiting fellowship to work with Curator Radio in the Sound Archive of the British Library, London, BBC collections, on research projects in progress of Dr Virginia Madsen examining the international history of public service broadcasting radio, in particular radio documentaries and 'features' with a focus here on BBC historical output.

Period	1 Oct 2014 - 2 Dec 2014
Visiting	The British Library
Degree of Recognition	International

Documents & Links

Public lecture and presentation: "Virginia Madsen explores the history of radio documentary using recordings discovered in the Library Dr Virginia Madsen on the “documentary imagination in radio: emerging from the British Library’s Radio Archive collections and other audio-visionary encounters”. Madsen explores through rarely heard audio examples the ‘other history of the documentary’ in radio using BBC documentary and features re-discovered by Madsen in the Library’s collections, as well as international work from key historical centres of documentary radio production. The vexed question of what is a feature will also be re-examined.
'In the Dark' organisation, London publicises the British Library public talk by Madsen