This is one of a short series of posts based on papers that will be presented to a conference to … Read the rest
Author archive for: steven
My Archive on Four documentary Very British Dystopias was broadcast last Saturday night. If you missed it, it can be caught on iPlayer for a few more days. If … Read the rest
Past months have seen a steady flow of remakes of classic British political TV series. For example, House of Cards has been adapted into a US political drama. I recently … Read the rest
Exultant reactions to Margaret Thatcher’s death – which took various forms from street parties and burning effigies, to a concerted internet effort to get the song ‘Ding Dong the Witch … Read the rest
The release of The Spirit of ’45, Ken Loach’s paean to the reforms of Clement Attlee’s Labour government, combined with the Conservative/Liberal Democrat rhetoric of national consensus in the … Read the rest
In 1913 G.B. Samuelson and Will Barker got together to make an unprecedented British moving picture. The longest and most prestigious cinema project attempted to date, this superfilm of the … Read the rest
This Saturday I’ll be presenting Very British Dystopias on Radio Four as part of its Archive Hour series.
The documentary is partly based on work I’ve done for this forthcoming … Read the rest
George Arliss is a long forgotten figure. But in the 1930s he meant a lot to British movie audiences, so much in fact one poll made him the most popular … Read the rest
If you are a political scientist or a political historian or – like me – some hybrid of the two, you really should avoid predicting the future. That said, put … Read the rest
The red microphone
Last week I finished a documentary for Radio 4 and I thought that some of you might be interested in knowing more about the process of getting … Read the rest