Posts Tagged ‘ video ’

Building Design Online (it rhymes, nice) Rotunda video

Building Design, a website for architects, has video of a lecture given about the refurb of the Rotunda by Nathan Cornish of Urban Splash and Glenn Howells of Glenn Howells Architects. More details here on the bd site:

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Telly Savalas on Radio 4

Just found out that the Radio 4 documentary about Telly Savalas’ Birmingham film (and the Portsmouth and Aberdeen ones he made) will be on Saturday at 10:30am. It should feature some clips from the screening recently held at the Library Theatre. It’ll be on listen again for a week and I shall endeavour to put up an mp3 up (if the wondrous speechification- now a podcast, woo! – doesn’t). As a special treat, here’s a new edit of the film showing different bits to our exclusive version:

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Building them up to knock them down?

This video is by Supermarche  animating their feelings about Birmingham city centre’s redevelopment. It’s part of the launch of FEED Studio (FEED is a collaboration between The School of Creative and Performing Arts at Matthew Boulton College and the creative industries). Ta D’log

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Costa Book of the Year award within grasp for Catherine O’Flynn

Having won the Costa first novel award, Catherine O’Flynn’s What was Lost is now in the running for the Costa Book of the Year award. The winner will be announced later today at a posh do in that London. This morning, BBC Breakfast had a feature on Catherine, who talked about her inspirations which include growing up in Nechells and a fondness for gas towers; and also a chat with her Birmingham-based publisher, Tindal Street Press. Fingers crossed for Catherine for tonight’s award!

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