Keith Selby Knihy

Exploring the evolution of the classic serial, this book examines its adaptation from BBC Radio Drama to television, highlighting the impact of color, global markets, and competitive ratings. It delves into how social, economic, technical, and cultural changes have transformed the genre over sixty years. Richly detailed, the narrative is enhanced by interviews with performers and media professionals, providing unique insights into the industry's response to these developments.

Robert Selby’s first collection introduces a poet of outstanding range and versatility. Here are dramatic monologues and personae, poems of war and in memoriam, moving personal lyrics and portraits of hearth and history. In plain-dealing, serious addresses, Selby meets the reader with candour and subtle, finely-tuned music, earning the company of a line of poets which runs from Hardy through Larkin and which, with feeling and restraint, sings love songs of England.

This book provides a clear method of study which encourages students to construct their own interpretation of any of Dicken's novels. This in turn provides students with a way of identifying the distinctiveness of Dickens's fiction and with a way of structuring an intelligent critical response to any of his novels.

There are chapters on each of the major forms of TV output, as well as advice on researching, preparing and presenting a project, suggestions to help students expand their reading and knowledge of the subject, a detailed glossary of technical terms and phrases and a short, useful index.