To register for the training session, please click here
Please note: Registrations for this training event close on the 3rd June
Please be aware this event is for Oxford Researchers only
In collaboration with Juniper, an independent television and radio production company, TORCH is inviting humanities researchers to propose ideas for research-based radio and TV programmes.
Creative Industries at Oxford Univeristy have put together a training session in the month before proposals are due. During this training session, participants will learn what a proposal needs to look like, develop a pitch with a group, pitch the idea, and get feedback. After this, participants will have 3 weeks to write and submit their own proposal.
Juniper specialises in current affairs, history, science, religion, arts and popular culture. Radio programmes currently in production include ‘Feedback’ (Radio 4) and Nick Robinson discussing Britain’s place in the world (Radio 4). Current television productions include ongoing series Sunday Politics (London) and Sunday Politics (South East) for the BBC, and ‘The Political Slot’ for Channel 4. Past TV productions range from dramatised histories to authored documentaries. A full archive can be found at www.junipertv.co.uk.
Successful applicants will have a chance to discuss and develop their programme-making ideas with Dr Samir Shah, CEO and Creative Director of Juniper. Samir has served as Deputy Chair of the V&A, a Non- Executive Director on the BBC Board and is currently Chair of the Museum of the Home and Chair of One World Media. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Television Society in 2002 and, in 2019, was the Visiting Professor of Creative Media at Oxford University (Faculty of English). In 2019 he was awarded a CBE for services to Television and Heritage.
To apply for this competition, you need to write a 200-word proposal describing how your research could provide original material for a television or radio programme, and how it might attract the ordinary listener or viewer. They need to resonate with a wide audience and encompass broad themes.
We are coming out of a pandemic that has delivered a seismic shock to all of us. And we are living in a world of noisy contestation. Your ideas do not have to speak directly – at all – to this context: escapism can be just as appealing as saliency. But it is into this environment that we will be taking your ideas to broadcasters.
To register for the training session, please click here
Please note: Registrations for this training event close on the 3rd June
