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  • Will Housing Crisis Kill the Irish Art Scene?

    How is Ireland’s housing crisis shaping Irish art today? Sarah Churchill asks contemporary Irish artists Aideen Barry and Spicebag for their thoughts.

    July 31, 2025
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5 Contemporary Comedies by Working-Class Women You Need to Watch

by Laura Minor Following the success of several working-class women who have created original comedy series in the UK, such as Carla Lane, Victoria Wood, Kay Mellor, and Caroline Aherne, the 2010s (and onwards) have seen an increase in working-class…

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • April 11, 2023

The War against the BBC, Part Two: Vox Populi or Voice of the Press?

By Julian Petley Note from the editors of Journal of British Cinema and Television: Given the current state of culture war, the Journal of British Cinema and Television is extremely keen to encourage further discussion of the sort of topics covered in this…

  • Teri Williams
  • December 3, 2020

The War against the BBC, Part One: Fear and Loathing of Saturday Live

By Julian Petley Note from the editors of Journal of British Cinema and Television: Given the current state of culture war, the Journal of British Cinema and Television is extremely keen to encourage further discussion of the sort of topics covered in this…

  • Teri Williams
  • December 2, 2020
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Negotiating Theory and Practice in Television Production Hierarchy: Mumble-gate

Sunday 19th of February 2017 saw the launch of the BBC’s most recent big budget television drama SS-GB, a dystopian vision of Britain under Nazi occupation. With it, came the re-ignition of the debate surrounding mumbling actors and unintelligible dialogue…

  • Teri Williams
  • February 24, 2017

A Tale of Two Kens: Drama, documentary and the subversion of the status quo

By John Hill My interest in writing about the work of the film and television director Ken Russell partly derived from writing about another Ken in my book, Ken Loach: the Politics of Film and Television (2014). The two Kens…

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  • November 2, 2015

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