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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.
Radio
Regular presenter, contributer and reviewer on the following programmes:
Selected Radio Broadcasts
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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.
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'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.
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'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.