Newspapers and Magazines
Practically any newspaper can be got after the event so long as you know
the date.
 | Radio Times
Has a database for recent publications but not for much later ones. Contact
0181-576-2000 to get someone to search for an article for you. Back issues for
up to a year can be acquired from 01483-733716. |
| The Sun/Times
News Group Newspapers Ltd 0171 782 4000. |
| Associated Newspapers (Mail on Sunday)
Back issues available from HART mailing, 18, Hill Side Avenue, Purley, Surrey,
CR8 2PF. |
| Remember When back issues
This company will send acopy of any newspaper ever printed given the date. tel:
0181 688 6323, fax: 0181 781 1227. |
| News International Reference Library
Mainly deal with News Group papers. Can't be contacted directly by phone, but
if you give all the details you can about an article and include a SAE they
will send the article in about 10 days. Address: 1, Virginia Street, London E1
9XN |
| British Newspaper Library
Tel: 0171 636 1544. Visits only by appointment. Manchester Central Library,
and others, keep many of the tabloids, the Radio Times and all the broadsheets
on microfiche. The Telegraph, Times and Guardian are also on CD-ROM search
engines in some libraries.
TV/Radio Production
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| Hat Trick Productions
Tickets for Drop The Dead Donkey etc need to be applied for well in advance on
0171 287 1598. Address: 10, Livonia Street, London, W1V 3PH, tel: 0171 434
2451 |
| BBC
To get info on a programme call the duty officer on 0181-743-8000. They should
be able to give you repeat schedules. For best response cut straight to the
production office of the programme, esp. if its radio. Ask for the "Travel
Show" production office (for example) and name the producer (available from
the Radio Times). If its radio and you are timely the producer will make a
copy of the programme for you gratis. Video is trickier but you might still
get somewhere if you can get directly to the production team. |
| Yorkshire TV
Very prompt service. Email publicity officer Vicky Cameron at vicky.cameron@yorkshire.tv.co.uk,
or tel: 0113 2438283. If no joy email jason.plews@yorkshire.tv.co.uk who is
technical manager for regional programmes and responds to email. |
| Channel 4
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| GMTV
Enquiries between 6am and 1pm on 0171 827 7064. Nick Austin (nick@tcp.co.uk)
says that GMTV can produce VHS tapes of segments from recently broadcast
programmes but it costs a lot to do so. About ten pounds for 15 minutes. Two
contact addresses for this service:
Viewers' Correspondence, GM-TV, The London Television Centre, Upper Ground,
London SE1 9TT
And (the company that actually does the copying:) Scanners Ltd., 66a Ashley
Road, London, N19 3AF
TV Web Pages
There are loads of these and I'll be putting the URLs here later.
(Actually, Carole intended to do that, but never got, "a
round tuit". See my "Information
For Fans" page to find web pages about Television.) |
