Stephen Griffiths

Stephen lectures in the area of television and radio studies, with a specialist teaching interest in broadcast programme histories, performance and programme making practices. His main research interests are acting and performance for television, broadcast light entertainment/comedy, children’s television, 1960s/1970s British comedy film, and British science fiction/fantasy drama. He has recently contributed to a number of reference publications, and has also contributed to a number of television programmes on TV history.

Stephen teaches across a range of broadcasting modules which include areas of television genre, media performance, television drama, TV/radio histories, and radio comedy. He is also the admissions tutor for the various media awards within the faculty and is also the award leader for the B.A. (Hons) Film, Television and Radio Studies programme.

Publications: Robert Murphy (ed), Directors In British Cinema: A Reference Companion (BFI, 2006). Biographical entries. www.screenonline.org.uk (BFI, 2006). Biographical entries.

Conferences: Reconsidering the Canon: Popular British Television Drama in the 1960s and 1970s (Centre for Television Drama Studies, University of Reading)

Time and Relative Dissertations In Space: Critical Perspectives on Doctor Who (Screen Studies Dept., Manchester University).

Television Drama in the UK Regions (Manchester Metropolitan University).

Current Research activities: Television presenting and performance, with a specific interest in children’s presentation (Blue Peter/Play School). Also developing an article on the history of consumer magazine television, with a case study focus on the BBC’s That’s Life series.