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A Spontaneous Desire To Make Stuff: Keith Haring On The BBC

Ahead of the BBC's screening tonight of a major new documentary about Keith Haring, tQ speaks to the film's director Ben Anthony

Black Sky Thinking

Quietus Writers On Why BBC4 Is Worth Saving

As rumours abound that BBC4 is to close, tQ writers look at the highlights - and flaws - of the channel, from Jonathan Meades to reindeer migrations, music docs and more
Black Sky Thinking

Why The BBC’s Radio Cuts Are A Disaster For Our Cultural Health

Last week the BBC announced swingeing cuts to its leftfield programming on Radio 3, with Late Junction, Jazz Now and Music Planet hit. Richard Foster argues this is a short-sighted decision with far-reaching consequences
Film

Walking To Nowhere: Alan Clarke’s Christine

In the final piece of our tour through the works of Alan Clarke, David Hering looks back at the director's unflinching and hypnotic junkie odyssey Christine
Film

Who’s The Daddy Now?: Alan Clarke’s SCUM In The Era Of Fake News

Adam Scovell looks back at the original BBC presentation of Alan Clarke's SCUM and finds troubling parallels between it's presentation of 'fact' and an era when the word is gradually losing all meaning
Television

Ryan Murphy’s Feud & BBC’s The Replacement Reviewed By John Tatlock

Two shows about two women not getting along with each other, one of which is cleverer than it looks. ***Contains mild spoilers***
Television

The BBC’s SS-GB: The Downton Abbification of Nazism

John Tatlock reports on a bizarrely genteel imagining of conquest by a murderous totalitarian enemy, in which everyone has an excellent haircut
Television

Andrew Marr interviews Marine Le Pen, American Horror Story & Mars

Our new TV columnist John Tatlock writes about non-fiction, fiction, fiction pretending to be non-fiction, and the front-person of a horrible faction. ****May Contain Slight Spoilers****
Black Sky Thinking

HyperNormalisation: Is Adam Curtis, Like Trump, Just A Master Manipulator?

As the BBC prepares to release Adam Curtis' latest film, Phil Harrison asks if in a fractured society HyperNormalisation is an empty transmission into an echo chamber
Black Sky Thinking

How I Learned To Love Tony Blackburn, By Pete Paphides

After the recent sacking of Tony Blackburn by the BBC, Pete Paphides has the revelation that the guileless broadcaster was a prism through which he's charted his own life in pop
Black Sky Thinking

No Longer Outsiders? On South Asian Representation In UK Culture

With the debate over #OscarsSoWhite coming to a head, it seems apt to remember that "diversity" isn’t about tokenism for its own sake. Through her experiences as a British South Asian, Tara Joshi considers the importance of representing non-stereotyped ethnic minorities in media, and why UK broadcasting needs to cop on
Black Sky Thinking

Keeping An Eye On Auntie: The BBC & Pro-Tory Bias

Phil Harrison looks at BBC reporting of the general election campaign and asks if - and for what reasons - the corporation might be abandoning public service impartiality for pro-Conservative viewpoints
Film

Crashes, Bangs and Quarries: An Interview With The The Radiophonic Workshop

Ahead of their curating of Jersey's Branchage film festival and their site-specific performance on the island on the 28th of September, Colm McAuliffe sits down with the legendary Radiophonic Workshop to discuss their long, strange history.

Black Sky Thinking

White Power And Black Pop: The Real Problem With 1Xtra’s Power List

Neil Kulkarni dissects the recent BBC 1Xtra Power List which featured three white acts in the top four...
Black Sky Thinking

Deference TV? Political Bias & Why The BBC Should Fight Back

As the closure of BBC3 once more puts the future of the broadcaster into the spotlight, Phil Harrison asks whether the BBC is moving to the right, and what might be done to make it fulfill its important role in standing up to government
Television

Spooked! Jude Rogers On BBC Ghost Stories For Christmas

Jude Rogers peers out from under her blanket to pen some words on the BBC's spine-chilling horror dramas, recently reissued in a BFI DVD box set
Television

How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Love The Hour

After a wobbly start, The Hour is shaping up well. But how does it fare in contrast to US series such as Mad Men, asks Adrian Lobb

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