Children and Television:
Facing the Future
The 7th annual conference of the Voice of
the Listener & Viewer Forum for Children's Broadcasting Took Place
On The Thursday, 1st November, 2001, 09.30am - 16.45pm at the Methodist
International Conference Centre, 81 Euston Street, London NW1.
PROGRAMME
0900: Coffee & registration
0930: Session One:
What are children watching now and what
are their reactions?
Speakers:
Dr Maire Messenger-Davies, School of Journalism
University of Wales, Cardiff. Andrea
Millward-Hargrave, Director of Research, Broadcasting Standards Commission.
Chair: Anna Home, Chief Executive,
the Children's Film and Television Foundation.
10.45: Coffee
11.15: Session Two:
What is the future for public service
broadcasters in the multi- channel context?
Speakers:
Nigel Pickard, Controller, BBC Children’s
Programmes
Janie Grace, Controller, ITV Children's
Programmes
Chair:
Anna Home, Chief Executive, the Children's
Film and Television Foundation
12.45: Lunch
13.40: Session Three:
What is the role for children's television
in dealing with disaster?
Speakers:
Nicci Crowther, Pagoda Family, producer,
‘Out of the Ashes’ foot-and mouth drama shown on BBC children's television
Matthew Price, Presenter, ‘Newsround’ for
CBBC
Madeline Wiltshire, Libra Television, producer,
Channel 4's ‘First Edition’
Lea Sellers, ITN, producer, Channel 4's
‘First Edition’
Ben Thomas, presenter, Welsh language children's
news programme ‘Ffeil’ made by BBC Wales for showing on S4C.
Chair: Philip Whitehead MEP
15.15: Tea
15.45: Session Four:
How do we maintain quality in future?
Speakers:
Helen Cresswell, author and screenwriter
Peter Murphy, Director of Children's and
Family Programmes, Zenith Entertainment
Billy Macqueen, Director, Darrell Macqueen
Ltd
Juliet Roberts, Producer, Victoria Real
Ltd
Chair: Jocelyn Hay, Chair, Voice
of the Listener & Viewer
16.45pm: Close of conference.
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to the programme.
A set of cassettes and an edited transcript
of the proceedings will be available, price £18.50.
VLV is grateful for support from the Broadcasting
Standards Commission and British Board of Film Classification.
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