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The impossible, powerful spaces of BBC radio adaptation

Davies, Miranda Katherine 2020. The impossible, powerful spaces of BBC radio adaptation. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
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Abstract

The thesis considers the BBC’s historic commitment to represent both the nations and regions of the United Kingdom, and then examines how this is achieved through the means of dramatic radio adaptation between the years 1985 and 2009. The thesis also describes and briefly analyses a catalogue of radio adaptations created for the project detailing every work adapted by the BBC for national radio between 1985 and 2009. The works considered in this study emanate from Wales, Northern Ireland and Greater Manchester, and the thesis examines the way in which these works imagine identity for the region in question, and interrogates what happens to these acts of imagination in the process of adapting and producing them for the radio. The thesis works with a range of theoretical frameworks from a mixture of academic disciplines: including histories of the BBC; theories of adaptation and the text; and work on the construction of national and regional identities. The thesis aims to address the historic under-representation of academic work both in the field of radio and of regional identity, and to contribute to new thinking in these areas.

Item Type: Thesis (PhD)
Date Type: Completion
Status: Unpublished
Schools: Modern Languages
Subjects: P Language and Literature > PB Modern European Languages
Funders: AHRC
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 7 July 2021
Last Modified: 19 May 2023 01:09
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/142451

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