RTS London Podcast
Welcome to the RTS London Podcast. The Royal Television Society is an educational charity promoting the art and science of television.
Episodes
39 episodes
The Harvey Goldsmith CBE Interview
"It’s 12 noon in London, 7am in Philadelphia... And around the world, it’s time for Live Aid..."On the 38th anniversary of Live Aid on 13 July 1985, RTS London presents this wide-ranging, full-length interview with Harvey Goldsmith CBE ...
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Episode 39
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1:52:05
Lost in Translation? Adaptations Across Borders
When it comes to game shows and reality TV formats, taking a popular series from one country and making a new version is fairly easy. But remaking scripted formats has always been a harder nut to crack. From homegrown hits
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Episode 38
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1:01:08
BBC 100: History, Celebration, Inspiration
RTS London marks the BBC's centenary with a look at the BBC's history, the celebrations planned and the inspiration for the next generation.Created 100 years ago, on 18th October 1922, the BBC transformed people's lives at the turn of a ...
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Episode 37
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42:14
Red Light: Q&A with Walter Iuzzolino
Starring Emmy-nominated Carice van Houten (Game of Thrones, The Fifth Estate, Race) and Golden Calf winner Halina Reijn (Bodies, Bodies, Bodies, Black Book, Valkyrie, Instinct), Red Light is an immersive thriller that portrays how three women's...
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Episode 36
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38:14
Sunday Morning Live: Production Focus
How do you produce a live topical Sunday morning discussion show out of Northern Ireland, with a studio in London and support from teams across the UK?The BBC recently awarded the tender to produce Sunday Morning Live, its flagship BBC O...
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Season 1
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Episode 35
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56:39
IBC Review 2022
What’s next for the future of content? Bring yourself up-to-date with news from the world's leading media, entertainment and technology show. For those who weren't able to attend this year's show held 9-12th September, this panel di...
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Season 1
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Episode 34
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1:31:20
Prof. Brian Cox on Mars
Professor Brian Cox fulfils a childhood dream: Back in 1980 twelve-year-old Brian Cox wrote to NASA asking for photos from some of their missions to the planets. The images they sent him from Voyager and the Viking mission to Mars i...
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Episode 33
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53:52
Snow Angels: Q&A Introduced by Walter Iuzzolino
Join RTS London for this exclusive in-person Q&A of Walter Presents’ new crime drama Snow Angels (Snöänglar) — a daring character-driven crime drama about motherhood as three women — a mother, a policewoman, and a child nurse’s — fates beco...
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Season 1
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Episode 32
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37:55
Dame Esther Rantzen DBE | RTS London Christmas Lecture 2021
Virtual Christmas Lecture by Dame Esther Rantzen DBE followed by Q&A hosted by Paul Jackson.Dame Esther Rantzen is a legend of British broadcasting and became a household name appearing in more than 2,000 TV programmes ...
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Episode 31
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1:02:05
Behind the Scenes: Sustainability and TV
RTS London and RTS Scotland come together to proudly present a virtual panel discussion on the importance of sustainability and how it's currently implemented in the world of television. Fresh in the minds of many following the UN C...
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Episode 30
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1:10:20
Kids, Covid & Content
How has COVID-19 impacted children’s media consumption and the content created in response?In January 2020, we held a joint event with the Children’s Media Foundation: “Are the Kids Alright?” The session looked at how the mainstream media w...
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Episode 29
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59:24
Neurodiversity & Mentally Healthy Productions
Challenging the Status Quo — Production, Mental Health & NeurodiversityWith nine in 10 people working in the UK’s film and TV industries experiencing mental health issues*, something needs to change.The Film and TV industry is...
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Episode 28
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1:08:33
Witch Hunt Q&A Introduced by Walter Iuzzolino
This exclusive look at Walter Presents’ compelling new drama series, asking the question: can whistleblowers ever win? Inspired by the true stories of Norwegian corporate whistleblowers, Heksejakt (Witch Hunt) looks at how those fig...
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Episode 27
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37:41
Children of 9/11: Our Story
As we approach the twentieth anniversary of the four plane tragedies of 11th September 2001, this event looks behind the scenes of the moving two-hour documentary transmitting on Channel 4, which follows six children born after their fathers di...
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Episode 26
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55:44
Spitting Image: Production Focus
Skewering the politicians and celebrities who need it the most! Join the Spitting Image team for a look behind the revival of this bitingly funny sketch show. Described as “one of the most innovative and daring television programmes eve...
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Season 1
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Episode 25
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53:31
Small Axe: Production Focus
Join the stellar production team behind Small Axe for a look at the love letters to resilience and triumph within London's West Indian community.Small Axe has been one of the most talked about drama series of recent years. Sharing the un...
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Episode 24
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47:40
Full Stream Ahead
How the Creative Industries Embraced Live Streaming.Is streaming coming to the rescue of the creative industries? The music sector is using live streaming to create high-quality Pay Per View concerts, with theatre also getting in ...
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Episode 23
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1:11:37
Deutschland 89: Behind The Wall
Anna and Jörg Winger in conversation with Stephen Armstrong. Anna and Jörg discuss concluding the UK's highest-rated foreign-language drama after three series. Featuring a special introduction by Walter Presents Chief Creative Officer Walter...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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1:00:49
TikTok Famous: How TV Can Leverage TikTok
TikTok has become one of the most talked-about social media launches of recent years, but producers and broadcasters are still in the dark on how best to navigate it. TikTok has grown as a major cultural force over the past 18 month...
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Episode 21
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1:02:38
Too Much TV! Navigating The New Golden Age
Are we on the verge of having too much TV? With soaring investment in production from the streamers and American imports alongside the UK’s PSBs, it looks like we are entering a golden age of TV — particularly with drama. ...
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Episode 20
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55:34
Law and Ordered
How Legal and Commercial Teams Have Responded to Covid-19.COVID-19 has impacted the television industry in an unprecedented way, from gaps in programming, productions halted, and the enforcement of legal provisions rarely used.
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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54:01
Get the Intel on Intelligence
David Schwimmer and Nick Mohammed in conversation with Boyd Hilton. The stars and creator of Intelligence discuss how season 2 was made and how they juggled their multifarious actor, producer and writer roles in this RTS London production...
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Episode 18
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1:00:22
Flirty Dancing Production Focus
Gaby Roslin chats with the team behind Ashley Banjo’s heart-warming, and Broadcast Award nominated, Flirty DancingSecond Star Production’s successful hybrid reality dating show Flirty Dancing has two seasons under its belt; they share th...
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Episode 17
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49:37
2020 Visions - The View From the DPP
This year has been a tipping point for our industry, partly because of COVID-19.Early in the last decade, a tsunami in Japan devastated the factory that supplied HDCAM-SR tapes - the format used to deliver most TV programmes. As people s...
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Episode 16
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58:23
How To Survive in Streaming
Whether you’re a big streamer, a start-up streamer or a consumer, this session examines how to survive... and more importantly... stand out.Join an all-star panel led by journalist and presenter Nadine Dereza as they look at some of the...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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1:11:01