The Media and Anniversaries
We're back now and blearily getting ready for a new series. The starting date is still a reassuring two months away on November 18th. As we gear up, do get in touch and let us know what and who you'd like to see on the programme. I can't promise we'll deliver on everything you suggest but we really want and need your suggestions. I think otherwise there's a risk that we'll drift into covering the slightly predictable and the heavily hyped...
I'm always struck by how fascinated the media, and TV and the arts media is by anniversaries. Do they matter? Who decides which anniversaries are important and which can be overlooked? The 400th anniversary of is coming up in December. turns 250 in January. The 500th anniversary of is coming up next year. And all sorts of cultural venues will be marking a Super Anniversary throughout 2009: Purcell having been born in 1659, Handel dying in 1759, and Haydn dying in 1809. And in January it'll be 50 years since Berry Gordy set up an obscure record label in Detroit called Motown...
So which anniversaries should we cover? Some? None? All of them? Just the ones which really resonate and affect powerfully our cultural life today? Or just the ones which the rest of the media might overlook?
Get posting and let us know. I promise to read all responses, and see if we can get some of the ideas onto the programme. And next year we might do an item marking the First Anniversary of this blog.
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