The academic’s influential report in 1960 revolutionised UK television and it is time to discover at the industry as thoughtfully and decisively as it was 55 years agoA few months ago,there was a celebration of the life of Richard Hoggart at Goldsmiths University. There were several speeches and in one of them I suggested that the best tribute to Hoggart would be to attempt to find a way to revive the Pilkington report commissioned in 1960. This report had, arguably, or the biggest impact on British television since the foundational tablets laid down by BBC founder Lord Reith,and Hoggart was widely acknowledged as its central spirit and emphatic champion.
Patrick Loughrey, the warden at Goldsmiths, and took this up and film-maker David Puttnam was asked to chair it. The first meeting is on 25 November.
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Source: theguardian.com