Remembering to forget? - The BBC abolition season and media memory of Britain's transatlantic slave trade

Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 391-403

  Wilson, Ross ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 61149165840     PISSN: 01439685     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01439680802230936     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Elizabeth Wallace, The British Slave Trade and Public Memory (New York, Columbia University Press, 2007).
2. John Oldfield, Chords of Freedom: commemoration, ritual and British transatlantic slavery (Manchester, University of Manchester Press, 2007).
3. Marika Sherwood, After Abolition: Britain and the slave trade since 1807 (London, I.B. Tauris, 2007).
4. Bicentenary Advisory Group, http://archive.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/dpm/ slave_trade_bicentenary/ membership_of_advisory_group.html (accessed 15 March 2007).
5. Bicentenary Advisory Group - Third Meeting, http://archive.cabinetoffice. gov.uk/dpm/upload/assets/www.dpm.gov.uk/13-07- 06_3rd_meeting_of_the_advisory_group_.doc (accessed 15 March 2007).
6. Roots, BBC1, January 1977.
7. Kyoon Kur and John Robinson, A uses and gratification analysis of viewing of Roots in Britain, Journalism Quarterly, 58(4), 582-588.
8. America, BBC1, 24 December 1972.
9. Chronicle - The Black Napoleon, BBC2, 23 April 1980.
10. Viewpoint - Art of Darkness, ITV, 23 September 1987.
11. Redemption Song, BBC2, 30 June 1991 to 7 July 1991.
12. Forbidden Fruit, Channel 4, 20 November 2003.
13. The Empire Pays Back, Channel 4, 14 October 2005.
14. The Slavery Business: Breaking the Chains, BBC2, 17 August 2005.
15. A Respectable Trade, BBC1, 19 April 1998.
16. The Extraordinary Equiano, BBC4, 15 August 2005.
17. The Black Chord, BBC Radio 2, 13 March 2007.
18. Rough Crossings, BBC1, 23 March 2007.
19. The Essay, BBC Radio 4, 22-26 March 2007.
20. The Black Eighteenth Century, BBC4, 3 July 2007.
21. Words and Music, BBC Radio 3, 25 March 2007.
22. Road to Abolition, BBC Radio 3, 25 March 2007.
23. In Search of Wilberforce, BBC2, 16 March 2007.
24. John Fiske, Reading Television (London, Routledge, 1989).
25. See 5.
26. Wole Soyinka, The Burden of Memory, The Muse of Forgiveness (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999), 23.