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31 October 2007 repeat 04 November
CHANNEL 4 This November 2007, Channel 4 celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary. Laurie Taylor is joined by Dorothy Hobson author of Channel 4 Television: The Early Years and the Jeremy Isaacs Legacy and Greg Philo,Professor of Sociology at Glasgow University. They discuss its history, singularity and enduring appeal.
THE DAY OF THE DEAD On the 1st and 2nd of November, Mexicans will be celebrating the Day of the Dead. Anthropologist and world expert in this ritual, Stanley Brandes, is the author of a new book entitled Skulls to the Living, Bread to the Dead. On the phone from the city of Zamora in the Mexican state of Michoacán he explains what preparations are underway.
Channel 4 Television: The Early Years and the Jeremy Isaacs Legacy Publisher: I B Tauris & Co Ltd ISBN-10: 1845116135 ISBN-13: 978-1845116132
Professor Greg Philo Professor of Sociology at Glasgow University and Research Director, Glasgow University Media Unit
Professor Stanley H. Brandes Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley Skulls to the Living, Bread to the Dead: The Day of the Dead in Mexico and Beyond Publisher: Blackwell Publishing ISBN-10: 1405152486 ISBN-13: 978-1405152488
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