Debbie Isitt, How I got from Coventry to Confetti

Posted on November 2, 2008 - Filed Under Coventry Conversations, Media, Video | Leave a Comment

Thursday 13th November, 13.00, ETG34, Ellen Terry Building
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COVENTRY FEATURE FILM DIRECTOR RETURNS ‘HOME’ TO COVENTRY UNIVERSITY
Coventry and Coventry university has not spawned many feature film directors. Debbie Isitt is head of a small club. She still lives in Coventry and works here-her latest film working title “Nativity” is [...]

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David Pearson, Director Cheltenham International Screenwriting Festival

Posted on October 31, 2008 - Filed Under Coventry Conversations, Media, Video | Leave a Comment

Thursday 6th November, 13.00, ETG34, Ellen Terry Building
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David Pearson is an unusual animal; an award winning documentary maker who has turned to fiction. He invented the Cheltenham Screenwriting festival, beavered away at gestating it and brought it to fruition five years later in 2006. It is the only [...]

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“We have nothing to hide” Clarence Mitchell

Posted on October 19, 2007 - Filed Under Coventry Conversations, Journalism, Media | Leave a Comment


Clarence Mitchell photographed here being interviewed by the press & our MC students

The spokesperson for Kate and Gerry McCann, the parents of Madeleine who went missing in Portugal aged three in May, reiterated today at Coventry University that he believed in their innocence.
“We have nothing to hide,” Clarence Mitchell told a largely student audience [...]

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Jon Snow speaking at the Channel 4 Day

Posted on October 5, 2007 - Filed Under Coventry Conversations, Journalism, Media | Leave a Comment

Photo: Matt Barron, Coventry Telegraph

 
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Channel Four is twenty five in November 2007. The department of Media & Communication organised a high profile, packed with people and ideas, Channel Four Day to analyse and celebrate it’s birthday. On October 4th in the Ellen Terry Building.
The attendees numbered over 250 from the department, the University, the [...]

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Nick Owen

Posted on May 24, 2007 - Filed Under Coventry Conversations | Leave a Comment

How to make TV Look Easy

Thursday 31st May, 1pm, Ellen Terry Building, Coventry University, Room ETG34
Midlands TV icon Nick Owen comes to Coventry on 31 May to end the current highly successful Coventry Conversations series. Nick is on television nightly. He is the main presenter of BBC Midlands Today and has been for nine years. [...]

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Karen Arrand

Posted on May 15, 2007 - Filed Under Coventry Conversations | Leave a Comment

 
“Summer flowers for Coventry Conversations”
Thursday 24 May at 1pm in the Ellen Terry Building at Coventry University, Room ETG34
Next week the Chelsea Flower Show will be in full bloom and the woman who was responsible for getting it onto the television for the BBC is going to be taking part in a Coventry Conversation.
The Chelsea [...]

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