Greetings, faithful readers. Events have conspired to keep me from keyboard and microphones for the Summer, but rest assured I'm back. A new season for this blog, the podcast and other exciting developments is under preparation, but as an 'amuse bouche' here's a prod towards the first of a (roughly) monthly series of addresses to the faithful by (and I quote the organisers) 'industry insiders' who are inside Factual programming.
The series is based at the Watershed, at a work-friendly (if you work in Bristol Medialand) 6.30pm and is brought to us by the BBC Anchor project. Free to attend, but you need to email for a ticket.
Visit this link
( http://www.bristolmedia.co.uk/diary/2010/9/15/in-conversation-with-simon-dickson-discuss-what-makes-great-viewing-with-television-insiders )
for the Bristol Media notification, with helpful whizzy links to put it into your online calendars.
There is an overview of the series of talks, but I haven't found it on the web yet! I think it must be an intitiative test.
I'll see you at the first one - but alas I'm blowing my alto sax on subsequent dates.*
More, much more, to come in time.
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* Addendum. It has struck me that some might infer a cynical construction here, a counterpoise between the aforesaid learned 'industry insiders' blowing their own trumpets and myself blowing a saxophone. Heaven forefend, and anyway such a trumpet would be metaphorical, whereas the saxophone is concrete.**
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**Corrigendum. Nor do I wish to imply that my saxophone is made of concrete, it is of conventional metallic formation.
