Katie Crosson

To add my two cents: This isn't the first time Sullivan has been implicated in a case of academics having their work and free speech stifled 😘

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TV Is the Public Talking to Itself After a difficult start, could the new revival of the BBC’s often radical 1970s and 80s anthology drama series finally have promise?

Play for Today is back. What does that mean?

Tom May & I interview Special Measures writer Lee Thompson, Big Winners director Emma Turner and Play for Today exec producer Paul Testar

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It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals.

Please share widely.

happy first play for today in 41 years !

I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/

Great to get @katiecrosson.bsky.social expert take on what the relaunched #PlayforToday strand could be ⬇️
#televisionhistory #tvdrama #mediahistory

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Couldn’t agree more with this!

Thanks Ian! 🤩

Thanks, Richard! ☺️

Play for Today is back – nine ways Channel 5 can make it as successful as the original Channel 5 has a lot to live up to, but research into the original BBC drama series has inspired nine principles the new Play for Today should live by.

Great piece from @katiecrosson.bsky.social on PFT's non-negotiables.

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Play for Today is back – nine ways Channel 5 can make it as successful as the original Channel 5 has a lot to live up to, but research into the original BBC drama series has inspired nine principles the new Play for Today should live by.

Channel 5 has a lot to live up to, but research into the original BBC drama series has inspired nine principles the new Play for Today should live by.

*THE GENOCIDE in Palestine; working to get this changed back to my original wording.

Play for Today is back – nine ways Channel 5 can make it as successful as the original Channel 5 has a lot to live up to, but research into the original BBC drama series has inspired nine principles the new Play for Today should live by.

Play for Today (2025) could foster solidarity between people facing issues that might not immediately appear connected, through a programme that joins up the dots. Here are 9 ways it can live up to its namesake (me for The Conversation) theconversation.com/play-for-tod...

Resonance | University of California Press

Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" in 2026. Please circulate!

Penda’s Fen (12*) + ScreenTalk with Spencer Banks, Ian Greaves and Gareth Evans | Barbican David Rudkin’s mystical TV film on paganism, and a discussion with actor Spencer Banks and writer Ian Greaves, whose new book reveals how the masterpiece was made.

Just under three weeks until the belated launch event for Penda's Fen: Scene By Scene at the Barbican. We'll have copies for sale, and Spencer Banks on the panel. And Cinema 1 is the best possible way of seeing the glorious 2016 remaster. Tickets here: www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

This is an important point. The 'general public' are now excluded from WAC facilities following the recent policy changes.

Open letter BBC Written Archives - August 2025 Join the campaign to protect the future of independent research at the BBC Written Archives Centre The following text is an open letter expressing the concern of historians and researchers about chan...

Calling historians and researchers. The BBC Written Archives Centre has changed its access rules without consultation. This means an end to proper independent research into the BBC's rich history. 178 have already signed the open letter. Please join the campaign here:

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Channel 5 revives BBC’s Play for Today to ‘help shape future of British drama’ Series aims to follow original in tackling ‘thornier issues’, and to support talent from lower-income backgrounds

!!!!!!! words to come www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...

245. A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney — Backlisted Dave Haslam and Melanie Williams join us to discuss A Taste of Honey (1958), Shelagh Delaney's first play, written and produced when the author was not yet 20 years old. To describe this as an ...

New Backlisted! A Taste of Honey, and what Shelagh Delaney did next 🎈 with @davehaslam.bsky.social @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social and me. @backlisted.bsky.social
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Everywhere I can find with availability seems to be 9-5 ☹️ but I will keep looking — good to know something else exist(s/ed)!

okay maybe there is an obvious answer to this question because ??? but: how do adults will full time jobs take driving lessons? everything is booked up and 2 hour sessions mon-fri 9-5 ??? please 🚗 help 🚗

Our brilliant @womensscreenwork.bsky.social post-doc researcher, Jessica Boyall, wrote an excellent piece on Gurinder Chadha for the Recent BFI Blu-ray release of Bhaji on the Beach. Jessica is working on the Gurinder Chadha Collection for the WSW project.

Why Cats Meow sounds like a John Berger book you’d pick up feeling bemused and have a life changing experience 40 pages in

Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025 History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.

Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27.

Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
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@bookhaus.bsky.social is a third of the way to its target with 50 days left. Let's guarantee it gets there:

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To Kill a War Machine

Because of the impending ban on Palestine Action, it seems very likely "To Kill A War Machine" will no longer be available to download after tomorrow evening so get your copy (and details of the last public screenings nationwide) here tokillawarmachine.com

Pressure grows on Yvette Cooper to abandon plans to ban Palestine Action UN experts and hundreds of lawyers warn that proscribing group would conflate protest and terrorism The home secretary is coming under increasing pressure to abandon plans to ban Palestine Action, as UN experts and hundreds of lawyers warned that proscribing the group would conflate protest and terrorism. In two separate letters to Yvette Cooper, the Network for Police Monitoring (Netpol) lawyers’ group and the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers said that proscribing the group would set a dangerous precedent. Continue reading...

Pressure grows on Yvette Cooper to abandon plans to ban Palestine Action

If you need cheering up, or even if you don't, I strongly recommend CMAT's set from earlier.