Broadcasting

Essay Films

I have an ongoing interest in the video film essay as research output and have collaborated with Professor Catherine Grant and Professor John Wyver on a number of projects.

A videographic collection of the ‘haunted mirror’ sequences in Robert Hamer’s ‘Haunted Mirror’ episode in The Dead of Night (UK, 1945)

Made by Catherine Grant and Lynda Nead, Halloween 2024.

For study only.

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Satis House (collaboration with Catherine Grant on David Lean’s film Great Expectations (UK, 1946)

Research drawn from The Tiger in the Smoke: Art and Culture in Post-War Britain

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Bert Hardy: Exercises with Photography and Film. Collaboration on the photography of Bert Hardy with John Wyver

Research drawn from The Tiger in the Smoke and originated for this project

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‘Going with the Grain? Post-War British Film, Photography and Audiovisual Argument’

Screening and Discussion with Catherine Grant, Lynda Nead and John Wyver at The Paul Mellon Centre

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‘Carry On Barbara - Anatomy of Ambivalence’

Collaboration with Catherine Grant on ‘Carry On Blonde: Barbara Windsor’, Paul Mellon Lectures

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‘Yield to the Blonde: Diana Dors’s Screen Styles 1946-1956’

Collaboration with Catherine Grant on ‘The British Marilyn: Diana Dors’, Paul Mellon Lectures

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A videographic collection of the ‘haunted mirror’ sequences in Robert Hamer’s ‘Haunted Mirror’ episode in The Dead of Night (UK, 1945)

Made by Catherine Grant and Lynda Nead, Halloween 2024

Radio

Regular presenter, contributer and reviewer on the following programmes:

Selected Radio Broadcasts

Secret Museum (last aired 21 September 2002, BBC Radio 4)
Secret Museum looks at how the explicit erotic, sexual and pornographic art and artefacts found on site in Pompeii were collected together into what became known as The Secret Museum.

'Victorian Streets', an episode of 'Free Thinking' (last aired 9 June 2022, BBC Radio 3)
Is that strong, inescapable image of 19th century city streets in our heads the right one? It's possible that there's a gap between the realities of street life in the Victorian city and how it has been thought of and portrayed in subsequent eras. Matthew Sweet is joined by historians Sarah Wise, Oskar Jensen, Lynda Nead and Fern Riddell to sift hard facts from picturesque imaginings.

'Being Blonde', an episode of 'Free Thinking' (last aired 12 October 2023, BBC Radio
What links “the British Marilyn” Diana Dors, the last women to be hanged in Britain Ruth Ellis, the artist Pauline Boty and the soap and film star Barbara Windsor? In this programme previewing her 2023 Paul Mellon Centre lecture series, Professor Lynda Nead explores Blondes, attitudes to desire and technological changes in film-making.

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Television

K: Kenneth Clark (1992) - Contributor

Rude Britannia (2010) - Contributor

Challenging and provocative series exploring British traditions of satire, bawdy and lewd humour and the nation's taste for ridicule and mockery.

Victoria's Children (2013) - Contributor

In a 60-year family saga this three-part series explores the reign of Victoria through her personal relationships with her husband and her nine children. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert shared a passionate marriage. Behind closed doors, royal domestic life often seemed like a battlefield. It is a story of manipulation, conflict, intimidation, emotional blackmail, and fevered attempts by her children to escape the clutches of their domineering and needy mother. The series uses a wealth of written material and photos left by Victoria, Albert and their children, including letters, diaries, memoirs and journals, to bring the subject and characters to life.

La Traviata (2015) - Contributor

La traviata is one of the world's most popular operas. Its arias are instantly recognisable and have become staples for opera houses across the globe. Yet at its London premiere in 1856, La traviata was denounced for bringing 'the poetry of the brothel' to the stage and unleashing uncomfortable truths on Victorian society. This programme reveals the extraordinary story behind the opera's first night in London and its scandalous heroine, the courtesan Violetta Valéry, whose dramatic life and tragic death were based on real-life characters and events. Tom and Amanda's journey goes from the luxury of the Parisian demi-monde to the teeming streets of Victorian London, where prostitution was seen as a threat to society itself.

Tate Art Walks (2018) - Contributor

Tate Britain’s Great British Walks takes us on a journey across landscapes that have seduced the nation’s favourite painters, from Stanley Spencer, Edwin Landseer and Dora Carrington, to John Singer Sargent, William Holman Hunt and Walter Sickert. The series, shown on Sky Arts, travels the length and breadth of Britain – from London zoo, Blenheim Palace, and the underworld of Camden Town to the English seaside and the breathtaking landscapes of the Lake District. Rich in stories, gossip and hidden secrets about the landscapes once imagined by some of our greatest artists.