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TRILT - Broadcast Listings
News on Screen
Shakespeare
Women's Work in British Film and Television
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Explore expertly curated collections that showcase visual storytelling from across the globe, offering valuable perspectives on a range of topics and historical periods. Each database reflects in-depth research and the richness of visual media.
The Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching (TRILT) is the best source of UK television and radio broadcast data available on the web.
TELEVISION AND RADIO
We provide a broad range of services and resources relating to UK television and radio for use in education.
The TRILT database includes a continuously updated Electronic Programme Guide to all UK TV and Radio broadcasts and is also an index to the over 450,000 hours of off-air television and radio that we have recorded for access by members since 1998. BoB is a shared service providing streamed access to current and archived broadcasts from over fifty channels.
TVTiP is a unique index to the London region TVTimes listings magazine covering the years from 1955 to 1985. The This Week (1956-1992) database provides a wealth of contextual information about the groundbreaking ITV current affairs series.
Thousands of programmes from the Independent Radio Sharing Archive made between 1973 and 1995 are also being streamed online, while the Radio Research Database aims to carry a record of all current radio-centred research in the UK.
Television and Radio
TRILT - Broadcast Listings
The Television & Radio Index for Learning and Teaching is comprehensive listings for all television and radio programmes broadcast in the UK since 2001, search, setup custom alert emails and request DVD copies under licence.
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Television and Radio
Off-Air Service
Since 1998 the BUFVC has recorded and retained UK television and radio. Currently more than 65,000 hours are kept each year. Copies of these programmes can be ordered online by BUFVC members with an ERA licence.
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Television and Radio
TVTiP ᭼ TV Times Index
The TVTimes Project 1955-1985 provides unique online access to the listings of the London Edition of the TVTimes from September 1955 - March 1985. TVTiP allows you to search for programmes, production staff and performers.
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Television and Radio
Channel 4 Press Packs
Channel 4’s weekly packs, the brainchild of Press Officer Chris Griffin-Beale, were the most comprehensive digest of programme information that any UK broadcaster supplied to the press. This site is a tribute to his pioneering work.
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Television and Radio
Independent Radio
The resources bring together archives of Independent Local Radio from 1973 to 1996. All the resources are delivered in collaboration with Bournemouth University’s Centre for Broadcasting History who obtained funding and conducted the digitisation and cataloguing.
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The Channel 4 press packs database offers a unique perspective on twenty years of programming that revolutionised British TV.
NEWS ON SCREEN
The world’s leading resource for the study of newsreels and cinemagazines. Find out what made the news in the 20th century using our database of 180,000 cinemagazine & newsreel stories (1910-83) linked to production documents & films.
News on Screen
News on Screen Databases
Newsreels were a regular feature of British cinema programmes between 1910 and 1979. For the first twenty years of their existence they were silent, with titles to introduce and describe each item, and accompanied by live music. Discover how the news hit the screen and take your study further with our wide range of resources including histories, case studies & website links.
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UPITN
UPITN was a major global television news agency. It had an extensive network of foreign bureaux, with crews filming events and people to supply broadcast news companies with material. In the 1970s, along with Visnews, it was the key player in international newsgathering, providing content that has informed our collective visual memory of that era.
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Inter-University History Film Consortium
The InterUniversity History Film Consortium (IUHFC) pioneered the study and use of film in history. Founded in 1968 by John Grenville and Nicholas Pronay at the University of Leeds, the IUHFC made sixteen films, all accompanied by detailed booklets produced by historians such as John Ramsden, Tony Aldgate and Philip Taylor.
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Roundabout
Over 600 Technicolor cinemagazine stories from the series Roundabout (1962-1974) are now freely available thanks to the British Film Institute. Produced by the Central Office of Information to showcase British manufacturing and promote the ethos of the Commonwealth, this eclectic mix of official opening ceremonies and factory production lines bears glamorous witness to a Britain projected exclusively to cinema audiences in Asia.
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News on Screen
David Lean & Gaumont Sound News
The history of one of the earliest British sound newsreels, Gaumont Sound News (1929-1933). David Lean (1908-1991) was one of Britain’s greatest film directors. He captured the public imagination with films like BRIEF ENCOUNTER (1945) and LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962) and his visionary technique influenced a generation of directors, including Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese.
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The British Universities Newsreel Database (BUND) is now News on Screen to help incorporate additional news genre (coming in 2011).
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Women's Work in British Film and Television
In partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council, University of Leeds, De Montfort University, and BECTU. This research project delves into the contributions of women within the British film and television industries spanning 1933 to 1989.
Shakespeare Database
This authoritative online database of Shakespeare-related content in film, television, radio and video recordings is international in scope, was regularly updated and currently holds over 10,000 records dating from the 1890s - The largest in the world!
Moving Image Gateway
This Gateway includes over 2,000 websites relating to moving image and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or amendments, please contact us by email or telephone.
Researcher’s Guide to Screen Heritage
This collection is a directory of film and video libraries and archives and related documentation and artefact collections and is a comprehensive directory of the publicly accessible sources of material related to the history of moving images and sound in the United Kingdom.
Screen Plays: The Theatre Plays on British Television Database
Screen Plays documents British television productions of plays that were originally written for the theatre. Most of these productions were made especially for television, but a significant number were originally theatre productions.
Media Legislation Reports
This digital resource currently includes over 500 entries and includes details of Annual Reports, UK and International Legislation, Discussion Documents, Public Consultations, Research Papers, Policy Documents, Service Reviews, Surveys etc.
The resource, titled Women’s Work in British Film and Television, makes available for the first time two complementary sets of data - one quantitative and one qualitative - which offer a distinctive insight into media production histories.