March 21st, 2011
The Charles Parker Day- 1st April 2011
Time: 01 April · 10:30 – 17:00
Location: The CastleGate Centre, Melbourne Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne
The Charles Parker Day Conference is a well established event in the national radio conference calendar and is an opportunity to reflect on this innovative producer’s work and examine within a wider contemporary context the philosophy behind his radio work. This year’s conference is supported by the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sunderland and Prism Sound, the people behind SADiE. This year in the eighth annual Charles Parker Day we celebrate the 50th anniversary `The Big Hewer’ the Radio Ballad about the mining industry and this year we will be holding the conference in a city partly built on the profits of coal – Newcastle- upon-Tyne. …
