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Mediating Public Service, Community, and Memory

Changing the Tune
The evolution of the theme tunes of popular British children’s television programmes offers a useful prism for looking through at processes of…
 • Dion Georgiou
Postman Pat: Special Delivery Service (2008–2017)
The BBC’s readaptation of the adventures of Britain’s most famous fictional postman mirrored many concurrent neoliberal transformations of its postal…
 • Dion Georgiou
Katie Morag (2013–2015)
Set on a fictional Hebridean island, this children’s television series gently and thoughtfully reflects on tradition and change in rural community life…
 • Dion Georgiou
Progressive Politics, Popular Culture, and Public Memory in Contemporary Britain
In which our intrepid author agrees to write a book about how both politicians and cultural producers vie to tell ‘progressive’ stories about Britain’s…
 • Dion Georgiou
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