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<FONT COLOR="#000065"><B>PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING - THE LAST DECADE AND THE FUTURE: LESSONS FROM THE BBC AND THE UK<BR>
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<B>Wednesday 2 August 2006, 5.30-7.00pm </B>in the <BR>
Law School, University of Melbourne, 185 Pelham Street, Carlton<BR>
Hosted by the Centre for Media and Communications Law and the Faculty of Arts programs in Media and Communications and in Cultural Studies<BR>
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Presented by Georgina Born, Cambridge University who is visiting Australia with support from the ARC Cultural Research Network. In this lecture Georgina Born will outline the history of the BBC and discuss how it will fare in the future, given unending crusades by its commercial and political antagonists against its existence, and the rising stakes for Britain's pluralist democracy in an era of continuing media expansion. <BR>
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From September 2006 Georgina Born will be Professor of Sociology, Anthropology and Music in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Cambridge University. She is a leading authority on media policy, the BBC and Public Service Broadcasting in the UK and Europe and is the author of numerous articles, chapters and policy papers as well as the influential book: <I>Uncertain Vision: Birt, Dyke and the Reinvention of the BBC</I>.<BR>
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For further information see www.law.unimelb.edu.au/cmcl <<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/cmcl">http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/cmcl</a></U></FONT>> <BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000065"><B>There is no charge to attend this lecture, but for the purposes of seating and catering please email Amy Harrington </B></FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>a.harrington@unimelb.edu.au</U></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000065"><B> if you wish to attend</B>
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