Bournemouth Internet Radio Station (BIRSt)
BIRSt – the Bournemouth Internet Radio Station was created in 2000 as a vehicle for the work of students studying on the MA in Radio Production in Bournemouth Media School, Bournemouth University. It features radio both as audio in the form on demand, live streaming and podcasts.
Bournemouth Media School
The School, part of Bournemouth University, has been designated a Centre of Excellence for learning and teaching media, the only establishment to be awarded such a distinction. It features teaching across all areas within media, and has a growing research culture.
Centre for Broadcasting History Research
The CBHR, of which Sean Street is the director, is one of a number of research centres within the Bournemouth Media School. The Centre has members active in radio, television and allied research, with many publications to its name. It also hosts high profile conferences and seminars, including the annual Charles Parker Day. Much of the Centre’s work revolves around the acquisition, preservation and dissemination of sometimes rare and at risk media archives.
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Dragonfly
Dragonfly is the theatre company created by Sean Street with his theatre director wife Jo, and the actor Christopher Robbie as a platform for new small scale touring stage work. Notably the company has toured Sean’s play, Beyond Paradise, a one-man show on the life of Charles Darwin, with Robbie as Darwin. This has been touring both in the UK and internationally, since 1998.
Enitharmon Press
This independent publisher, specialising in art and poetry, has published two books by Sean Street, Figure in a Landscape and Radio Waves. It is a company noted for the quality and design of its books, and has been run for many years by Stephen Stuart-Smith, who inherited the company from the late Alan Clodd in the 1980s.
Falling Tree Productions
Falling Tree Productions is an independent radio production house run by Alan Hall. The company has a distinguished record in the creation of radio features, with an impressive array of awards. Sean Street has worked on a number of projects with Falling Tree, notably Landscape With Figure for BBC Radio 3 in 2004, a feature on the life and work of the World War 2 poet, Keith Douglas, and The ‘Frisco ‘Quake, to mark the centenary of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in April, 2006.
Kelly Books
Kelly Books, based in Devon, is the country’s leading bookseller of works relating to all aspects of the media. In addition to stocking an impressive list of rare and second hand works relating to radio, television and print, the company is also a publisher, and has produced Sean Street’s Concise History of British Radio.
John Libbey Publishing
A leading specialist publisher of books on various aspects of the media, for 2006 John Libbey has published Sean Street’s Crossing the Ether, a work which interrogates the accepted idea of the pre-war UK radio map, and demonstrates that, in addition to the BBC, there was a thriving and influential commercial radio industry serving a UK audience hungry for populist entertainment.
Nthposition.com
This political and artistic website has published a number of Sean Street’s poems. It has also been responsible for some important publications, including A Hundred Poets Against the War, a groundbreaking e-publication which was published in downloadable form with remarkable speed in the shadow of the Iraq war, and was subsequently issued in conventional book form by Salt Publishing.
Scarecrow Press
This US-based company produces a wide range of books designed for students, researchers and libraries within Higher Education, in addition to studies which attract an even wider range of readers. Sean Street’s Historical Dictionary of British Radio, published in 2006, is a Scarecrow Press publication.
Seren
Seren, based in Bridgend, Wales, publish books of literary biography, criticism as well as poetry. One of the company’s most distinguished series has been the Borderlines series, which includes Sean Street’s much praised book on Georgian poetry, The Dymock Poets, first published in 1994 and subsequently reprinted.
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