BBC Radio 4 dramas broadcast between November 2014 and March 2019
- Submitting institution
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Liverpool John Moores University
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- MONKS1
- Type
- J - Composition
- Month
- March
- Year
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This portfolio contains four major audio projects which represent significant and original research about historical and contemporary social narratives through critical and creative interpretations. As is evident in my statements about each of the research outputs, traditional and creative research combined to create important forms of social commentary offering new dimensions to these historical moments.
Each of the radio dramas required major research involving ‘traditional’ resources (interviews, newspaper archives, historical records). I also interviewed experts within each research field and in the case of Inquest, victims of sexual assault. I applied my creative interpretation of this research to develop original and creative BBC radio dramas.
Each work was specific in its focus and required different historical and cultural sources. For example, Home Front involved interviews with academics and historians and visits to museums and archives in Newcastle and Exeter. Sometimes the research required a more interpretive response. This was particularly the case in Inquest where my research forensically established that a crime is multidimensional requiring different research for different points of view. The originality of my research was grounded in the diversity of interviews I conducted including with victims of sexual assault, legal professionals at the Human Rights organisation, Liberty, and the Senior Coroner for South Cumbria.
Research for Lost in Glencoe involved interviews, family archives, local police records, newspaper articles and site visits to Glasgow and Glencoe. The topography of the area was also studied on a series of walks. Similarly, Stone required site visits to Greater Manchester, interviews with police officers, probation officers, social workers, literature review, internet studies and documentaries detailing police procedures.
The research played a major role, not only in developing the radio programmes themselves, but in demonstrating how a combination of traditional and creative research offers original and innovative knowledge, accessible through popular culture.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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