Creative Industries  Pitching Competition Training Session

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In collaboration with Juniper, an independent television and radio production company. and TORCH

TORCH is inviting humanities researchers to propose ideas for research-based radio and TV programmes.Please be aware this event is for Oxford Researchers onlyCreative Industries have put together a training session in the month before proposals are due. During this training session, participants will learn what a proposal needs to look like, develop a pitch with a group, pitch the idea, and get feedback. After this, participants will have 3 weeks to write and submit their own proposal.Juniper specialises in current affairs, history, science, religion, arts and popular culture. Radio programmes currently in production include ‘Feedback’ (Radio 4) and Nick Robinson discussing Britain’s place in the world (Radio 4). Current television productions include ongoing series Sunday Politics (London) and Sunday Politics (South East) for the BBC, and ‘The Political Slot’ for Channel 4. Past TV productions range from dramatised histories to authored documentaries. A full archive can be found at www.junipertv.co.uk.Successful applicants will have a chance to discuss and develop their programme-making ideas with Dr Samir Shah, CEO and Creative Director of Juniper. Samir has served as Deputy Chair of the V&A, a Non- Executive Director on the BBC Board and is currently Chair of the Museum of the Home and Chair of One World Media. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Television Society in 2002 and, in 2019, was the Visiting Professor of Creative Media at Oxford University (Faculty of English). In 2019 he was awarded a CBE for services to Television and Heritage.Through this competition, researchers will have the opportunity to learn how to develop a pitch, understand what works and doesn't work for audiences in the radio/TV space, and get a snapshot into the overall process of turning a research-based idea into a radio or TV programme.We welcome applications from researchers working in all areas of the arts and humanities. Researchers interested in this competition should first register for the training session taking place on 10 June 2021. The deadline for proposals is 1 July 2021 - please email your proposals to tasha.patel@humanities.ox.ac.uk.Successful applicants will be contacted by 9 July 2021 and invited to a development meeting with Samir Shah.For any queries about the competition, please contact tasha.patel@humanities.ox.ac.uk.It is important for successful applicants to remain open to input and feedback from Juniper TV and to be flexible with their ideas to ensure research ideas translate well for radio and TV.

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