For info:

Charles Parker Day 2008
4 April, 2008, Miramar Hotel, Bournemouth

Speakers include:

Piers Plowright:" Voices as Music – some thoughts on the Canadian virtuoso Glenn Gould's radio documentaries 1969 – 1978

Alan Hall: "Composing Radio – A feature-makers' consideration of the volatile combination of pure sound and music in the process of 'composing radio'

Andy Cartwright: "Editing the Ballads – The Radio Ballads introduced a form of editing which pushed forward the techniques of feature-making. Cartwright, of Soundscape Productions, examines these techniques and talks about why they still sound radical today.

Sean Street: " Choreographing Chaos – US Feature-maker David Isay, a Bronx Flophouse and the oral history of despair. A study of Isay's seminal NPR radio programme.

Plus other speakers celebrating Charles Parker and the development of radio features.