Drama for People ‘in the know’: Television World Theatre (BBC 1957–1959) and Festival (BBC 1963–1964)

DRM - the BBC World Service distribution chain

At the basic RF-channel level, DRM shares many characteristics with other modern systems such as DVB-T and DAB. It utilises Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (COFDM) [1][2] to combat noise, narrowband fading and multipath. Broadcasts can be synchronized to support Single-Frequency Networks (SFNs) and Multi-Frequency Networks (MFNs). One DRM service normally occupies one AM channe...

the search for the self in becketts theatre: waiting for godot and endgame

this thesis is based upon the works of samuel beckett. one of the greatest writers of contemporary literature. here, i have tried to focus on one of the main themes in becketts works: the search for the real "me" or the real self, which is not only a problem to be solved for beckett man but also for each of us. i have tried to show becketts techniques in approaching this unattainable goal, base...

Auntibiotics: the BBC, penicillin, and the second world war.

Identifying contributors in the BBC world service archive

In this paper we describe the speaker identification feature of the BBC World Service Archive prototype, an experiment run by BBC R&D to investigate alternative ways of publishing large radio archives. This feature relies on diarization of individual programmes, supervector-based speaker models, crowdsourcing for speaker identities, and a fast distributed index based on Locality Sensitive Hashi...

Broadcast and aggregation in BBC

In distributed systems, where multi-party communication is essential, two communication paradigms are ever present: (1) one-to-many, commonly denoted as broadcast; and (2) many-to-one denoted as aggregation or collection. In this paper we present the BBC process calculus, which inherently models the broadcast and aggregation communication modes. We then apply this process calculus to reason on ...