[Commlist] BBC Radio 1922-2022: Navigating the waves of change Conference

The MeCCSA Radio Studies Network is pleased to share more information 
about our forthcoming in-person conference marking the BBC’s centenary - 
BBC Radio 1922-2022: navigating the waves of change. Please see below 
the current draft programme.
Tickets are still available at 
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bbc-radio-1922-2022-navigating-the-waves-of-change-tickets-396992454117
 Saturday 26th November, Postgraduate Centre, University of 
Bedfordshire, Luton

8.30 - 8.50 am Registration with refreshments
8.50 - 9.40 am Welcome/KEYNOTE ONE: Gurvinder Aujla-Sidhu
Panels

9:50 - 11.20 am SESSION ONE

Session 1, Strand A: International perspectives on political cultures of 
radio journalism and public service broadcasting.
Rosemary Day, It's complicated – The BBC and the Irish Anne F. 
MacLennan, The Impact of the BBC on the CBC: Gladstone Murray, Special 
Committees of Radio Broadcasting, and the Canadian Radio League 
Aleksander Kocic, BBC in Scotland - national, regional and local: 
mission impossible?  Paninee Boonlert, Public Service Broadcasting 
Principles: Lessons learned from BBC of the United Kingdom by Thai PBS 
of Thailand

Session 1, Strand B: Creative radio programming and popular culture(s).
Kate Lacey, Everybody’s Scrapbook: BBC retrospectives in retrospect   
Martin Cooper, The BBC’s cultural resilience: how the nation’s 
broadcaster had spent decades satirising its own radio output. Neil 
Washbourne, Making sense of the implied listeners of BBC Radio 2: DJs at 
home and humorous features of programmes Timothy Vercellotti, The BBC 
and soft power at home: Promoting democracy through The Archers
Session 1, Strand C: Technologies, platforms and competition
Lawrie Hallett, Unlicensed Broadcasting and BBC Radio.*
Caroline Mitchell, Flowing both ways? The Memorandum of Understanding 
between the UK Community Media Association and BBC English Regions - 
what are the benefits and challenges of closer working relationships 
between community radio stations and BBC Local Radio?*
Maxwell Modell, Redefining the Political Interview: Actively avoiding 
adversarialism and managing audience expectations on the Political 
Thinking with Nick Robinson podcast Andrew Scorgie, Streaming and Radio, 
and how a Multichannel environment can be adapted to the changing nature 
of listening habits.*

11.20 - 11.40 am   Tea/Coffee break
11.45 am - 1.15 pm	SESSION TWO

Session 2, Strand A: Inclusivity and diversity across cultural and news 
programming.
Peter Lewis, “A claim to be heard”: missing voices on BBC radio
Nina Robinson, The composition of staff in senior leadership positions 
in BBC radio newsrooms Kate Williams, BBC Radio 5live – to advent of 
rolling news on the BBC David Dunkley Gyimah, 180991 Black London: The 
importance of archive for Black British people and scholars, its agency, 
and how it threads autobiographical stories and challenges representation.

Session 2, Strand B: Creative approaches to educating, informing and 
entertaining the listener.
Tim Wall, Serving the Swinging Public: BBC Radio and Jazz in Britain 
1922 to 2022. Zara Healy, Won’t someone think of the Children’s (Hour)? 
The rise and fall of the BBC’s first radio programme for children 
(1922-1964) Paul Kerensa, The First Firsts of Broadcasting (an abridged 
version of his show “The First Broadcast: The Battle for the Beeb in 1922.”)
Jacob Goldman, Becoming Cyclonic: Shipping Forecasting, Forecasting 
Shipping.*

1.15 - 2.00 pm Lunch
2.00 - 2.40 pm 	KEYNOTE TWO: David Hendy
2.40 - 3.00 pm Tea/Coffee Break
3.00 - 4.30 pm	SESSION THREE

Session 3, Strand A:  Podcasting and Public Service Audio, panel 
featuring Kim Fox and Richard Berry, sponsored by Nottingham Trent 
University.	

Session 3, Strand B: Dramatic interventions: inclusivity at the Beeb?
Tim Crook, Gertrude E Jennings: the pioneering one-act playwright, the 
BBC’s most produced original dramatist in its first three years of 
broadcasting.  Leslie McMurtry, Town to Village to Hamlet to Hollow: 
Pilgrim on BBC Radio 4 Marcus Collins, “The Talk Should Not Be 
Broadcast”: BBC Radio and Male Homosexuality in the 1950s.*


4.35 -6.00 pm	SESSION FOUR

Session 4, Strand A:  The Archers and its fans: a panel of four papers 
from the Academic Archers network.
Helen Burrows, The Archers as Cult and Culture – A Case Study in Radio 
Fandom and Informal Education Sarah Merry, The Script Hit the Fan: The 
Impact of Issue-Led Storylines on listeners’ engagement with ‘The 
Archers’ and its fandom Claire Astbury, Fans, Flouncers, 
Fundamentalists: Understanding Online Archers Fan Culture. Jerome 
Turner, Still @borsetpolice: re-viewing Archers fan fiction on Twitter 
(2011-17)

Session 4, Strand B: Delivering cultural diversity and opening up the 
airwaves.
Ethan Lee, Themes and Motivations: An Alternative Framework for 
Understanding and Engaging Diverse Audiences at BBC Radio  Liam 
McCarthy, From The Black Rose to the BBC Asian Network: BBC local radio 
and immigration 1968-1990. Aasiya Lodhi, A Mid-Century War of Position: 
Caribbean Writers and BBC Radio Ester Lo Biundo, London Calling Italy. 
BBC broadcasts during the Second World War.
6 pm: We hope to host networking drinks to conclude the day, sponsored 
by the University Sheffield.


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The details and timings are subject to change, and we are awaiting final 
confirmation on a handful of papers (marked with*).

Any queries, please email by reply here or to 
(radiostudiesnetwork /at/ gmail.com) or find us on social media.

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