[Commlist] Screen Two at 40 symposium

Booking is now open for the /Screen Two at 40 /symposium 
<https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default.asp?doWork::WScontent::loadArticle=Load&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::article_id=7E7DFA7D-5078-4F61-B13F-5E3B12A4B513&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=AD37ABED-D302-400B-B637-93BE29FD288B>//at 
BFI Southbank, London, on the 12th November 2025.

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Launched by the BBC in 1985 as a successor to Play for Today, Screen Two 
featured an eclectic range of over 150 single dramas, including /The 
Burston Rebellion/, /Brothers in Trouble/, /The Grass Arena/, /The 
Firm/, /Edward II/, /Persuasion/, /Priest/, /O Mary This London/, /My 
Sister-Wife/, /Small Faces/ and /Truly, Madly, Deeply/. On the occasion 
of its 40th anniversary, this symposium brings together a range of 
speakers to assess the contribution of Screen Two to television and film 
production, examine the more general transition from the single play to 
the television film that occurred during this period and assess the 
legacy of both Screen Two and the ‘television film’. In doing so, the 
symposium will not only seek to reflect on the achievements of Screen 
Two but also consider their relevance to current UK film and television 
production.

Participants will include the writer Jimmy McGovern, the producers Ruth 
Baumgarten, Ruth Caleb, Andrea Calderwood, George Faber and David 
Thompson, the directors Suri Krishnamma and Lesley Manning, the writer 
and producer John Wyver, filmmaker and curator Nia Childs, researcher 
Lillian Crawford and TV scholar Christine Geraghty.

The event is organised by John Hill and Lillian Crawford of the Centre 
for the History of Television Culture and Production, Royal Holloway, 
University of London in association with the BFI.

As part of an AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award with the BBC, 
Lillian Crawford has curated an overview of Screen Two for BBC Canvas 
which may be found here 
<https://canvas-story.bbcrewind.co.uk/screentwo/>.  Her contribution to 
the Forgotten TV website may also be found here 
<https://forgottentelevisiondrama.wordpress.com/2025/02/18/screen-two-at-40/>. 
Should anyone like to contribute to this website, on Screen Two or 
anything else, do get in touch.

A full programme will be circulated shortly. The event will run from 
11am to 5pm on Wednesday 12^th November when it will be followed by a 
screening of /Priest/ at 6pm.

Tickets for the symposium may be purchased here 
<https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default.asp?doWork::WScontent::loadArticle=Load&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::article_id=7E7DFA7D-5078-4F61-B13F-5E3B12A4B513&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=AD37ABED-D302-400B-B637-93BE29FD288B>.

Tickets for the screening of /Priest/ may be purchased here 
<https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default.asp?doWork::WScontent::loadArticle=Load&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::article_id=0F026744-CA3F-4E6D-8A84-801488B0BD9C&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=657EB6B2-AD1A-4C3C-B931-41CC81AB6DE3>. 



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