BBC Gosta Green revisited

Gosta Green. Copyright resides with the original holder, no reproduction without permission

Gosta Green. Copyright resides with the original holder, no reproduction without permission

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sat 15 Oct 2016, 11am | Tickets £5 (£3) | Hexagon Theatre – Midlands Arts Centre
When BBC Birmingham outgrew its first base on Broad Street, television production moved to the old Delicia Cinema on Gosta Green. Saturday morning’s screening is a rare chance to sample a selection of Gosta Green’s output, introduced by TV historian Lez Cooke (Royal Holloway) who has been focussing on the studio as part of his AHRC-funded project Forgotten Television Drama. The programme includes the opening episode of Rainbow City, the first UK series to feature a black actor (Errol John) in the lead role, and will be followed by a discussion involving people who worked at the studio. Also shown will be an episode of The Newcomers and Sinking Fish Move Sideways as part of the tribute to this pioneering regional television studio, sixty years after drama was first produced there.This event is part of Birmingham on Film, a Flatpack season of archive screenings and events across the city from 16 September to 15 October.

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Immigrants’ Programmes Unit

Immigrants Unit 1Immigrants Unit 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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This BBC article can be found on the following link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/4/newsid_2540000/2540633.stm

The Immigrants Programme Unit began in 1965, combining both a radio and television service for newly arrived Asian immigrants. The BBC Birmingham Unit was based at Carpenter Road in Edgbaston.

The following comment was added on the Pebble Mill Facebook Page:

Pete Simpkin: ‘When Radio Birmingham started in 1970 we used to rebroadcast this series as well.’

Pinto at Pebble Mill – Prospero Dec 2013

Pinto at Pebble Mill PP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Copyright resides with the original holder, no reproduction without permission.

This article by costume designer, Joyce Hawkins, appeared in the BBC retirees magazine, Prospero, in December 2013.