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Ancient Greece has inspired television producers and captivated viewing audiences in the United Kingdom for over half a century. By examining how and why political, social and cultural narratives of Greece have been constructed through television's distinctive audiovisual languages, and in relation also to its influential sister-medium radio, this volume explores the nature and function of these public engagements with the written and material remains of the Hellenic past. Through ten case studies drawn from feature programs, educational broadcasts, children's animation, theater play productions, dramatic fiction and documentaries broadcast across the decades, this collection offers wide-ranging insights into the significance of ancient Greece on British television.
Broadcasting Greece: an introduction to Greek antiquity on the small screen / Fiona Hobden and Amanda Wrigley -- 1. Are we the Greeks? understanding antiquity and ourselves in television documentaries / Fiona Hobden -- 2. Louis MacNeice and 'The paragins of Hellas': ancient Greece as radio propaganda / Peter Golphin -- 3. The beginnings of Civilisation: television travels to Greece with Mortimer Wheeler and Compton Mackenzie / John Wyver -- 4. Tragedy for teens: ancient Greek tragedy on BBC and ITV schools television in the 1960s / Amanda Wrigley -- 5. The serpent son (1979): a science fiction aesthetic? / Tony Keen -- 6. Don Taylor, the 'old-fashioned populist'? The Theban plays (1986) and Iphigenia at Aulis (1990): production choices and audience responses / Lynn Fotheringham -- 7. The Odyssey in the 'broom cupboard': Ulysses 31 and Odysseus: The greatest hero of them all on children's BBC, 1985-1986 / Sarah Miles -- 8. Greek myth in the Whoniverse / Amanda Potter -- 9. The digital aesthetic in 'Atlantis: the evidence' (2010) / Anna Foka -- 10. Greece in the making: from intention to practicalities in television documentaries - a conversation with Michael Scott and David Wilson.
edited by Fiona Hobden and Amanda Wrigley.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [224]-245) and index.