Radical Broadcasts: Theory On TV
Radical Broadcasts is an archive television season which will screen across London throughout April and May 2018. An exciting and provocative combination of documentary archive footage, and drama drawing attention to an era of British television where public intellectuals and theory were never far from our screens. The screenings will take place at Whitechapel Gallery, Institut-Francais, Horse Hospital and BIMI – further information on each event below.
Curated by Matthew Harle and Colm McAuliffe with The Whitechapel Gallery and Verso books.
19th April, Whitechapel Gallery: Cultural Studies Invades TV
The Yippies Invade The David Frost Show
London Weekend Television | 1970 | 52mins
Richard Hoggart: Why Culture?
BBC | 1973 | 58mins
Stuart Hall: It Ain't Half Racist, Mum (1979)
BBC | 1979 | 30mins
Link: http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/events/radical-broadcasts-theory-tv-part-one/
25th April, Horse Hospital: Radical Psychiatry
RD Laing on Good Afternoon
Thames TV | 1977 | 21 mins
Sigmund Freud’s The Rat Man
BBC | 1972 | 54mins
Link: https://www.thehorsehospital.com/whats-on/
5th May, Whitechapel Gallery: Revolution in the Revolution
Today's History: Whatever Happened to Marx?
Channel 4 | 1983 | 26mins
John Berger: Parting Shots from Animals
BBC | 1980 | 56mins
Edward Said: The Idea of Empire
BBC | 1993 | 60mins
Link: http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/events/
16th May, Institut Francais: French Theory in Britain
Television Degree Zero: The Late Show - Roland Barthes
BBC | 1990 | 44mins
Talking Liberties: Helene Cixous, Julia Kristeva and Jacques Derrida
Channel 4 | 1992 | 30mins
Link: https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cine-lumiere/whats-on/special-screenings/roland-barthes-television-degree-zero/
17th May, Birkbeck Institute For The Moving Image : Landscapes of Culture: Raymond Williams on TV
One Pair Of Eyes: Border Country
BBC | 1970 | 60mins
Where We Live Now: The Country and the City
BBC | 1979 | 61mins
Raymond Williams: A Tribute
Channel 4 | 1988 | 30mins