Charles Parker Day 4 April 2008 - Bournemouth

Subject: RE: Charles Parker Day 4 April 2008 - Bournemouth
From: Surreysinger
Date: 22 Feb 08 - 06:32 AM

Thanks for that Doc!

Subject: RE: Charles Parker Day 4 April 2008 - Bournemouth
From: GUEST,Doc Rowe
Date: 22 Feb 08 - 05:11 AM

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.

Subject: RE: Charles Parker Day 4 April 2008 - Bournemouth
From: GUEST,Fred McCormick
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 04:45 AM

Sorry, just cleaned my cookies out and forgot to log back on.

Anyway, the programme. I have no details at present, but there's usually plenty to make it worth turning out for. Your best bet woud be to email Sandie Rose at [e-mail] .

Subject: RE: Charles Parker Day
From: Surreysinger
Date: 19 Feb 08 - 01:52 PM

Are there any details about what the day involves in terms of programme ?? There's not any real indication of content there. :-(

Subject: Charles Parker Day
From: Fred McCormick
Date: 19 Feb 08 - 04:42 AM

I've just had the following in from Pam Bishop of the Charles Parker Archive.

This year's Charles Parker Day will be held in Bournemouth on Friday 4 April - the day before what would have been Parker's 89th birthday. It will also celebrate the fiftieth anniversary - in June 2008 - of the first Radio Ballad, "The Ballad of John Axon", and the award of the 4th Charles Parker Prize for the best student radio documentary feature.

The organiser Sean Street has asked me to make sure that everyone has the details of this important day. It's hosted by Bournemouth University's Centre for Broadcasting History Research, and the cost is minimal - only £10 for the day, including lunch and refreshments.

Please email Sandie Rose at [e-mail] to book your place, and we look forward to seeing you there if you can make it.

Best wishes - Pam Bishop

-- PAM BISHOP

Trustee of the Charles Parker Archive 35 Waterloo Road Kings Heath Birmingham B14 7SD

tel [phone] [e-mail]

The Charles Parker Archive is deposited in the Birmingham City Archives on the 7th Floor of the Central Library. Charles Parker Archive Trust, registered charity no. 326082 http://www.cpatrust.org.uk