The Classic Serial on Television and Radio

by Robert Giddings, Keith Selby

The classic serial, invented by BBC Radio Drama sixty years ago, survived and adapted itself to television, the arrival of colour and the global market in what has become a flood of classics with all channels competing for ratings and overseas sales. This richly detailed book traces these developments and analyses the genre's response to social, economic, technical and cultural changes, which have re-shaped it into the form we recognise today. The book contains considerable interview material with performers and media professionals.

252 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Robert Giddings (1936), professor emeritus at Bournemouth University, who has died aged 76, lived, taught, wrote and argued from a wheelchair, having been disabled by polio as a child. He produced 20 books, alone or in collaboration, and reviewed widely, for publications including the Listener, Observer, New Statesman and Tribune. Source