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When TV Was Radical

By: Claire Biddles

Today, experimental television is hidden away on specialist plat-forms. Once, though, leading European public-service broadcasters made and transmitted radical and strange programming by cinema auteurs.

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The programme looks like a normal news broadcast at first. A series of ordinary people are filmed sitting in their living rooms or standing in parks, giving testimony in straightforward but subtly grave tones. They’ve all narrowly survived death after being struck by lightning. An expert is called on to explain how electricity enters the […]

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The programme looks like a normal news broadcast at first. A series of ordinary people are filmed sitting in their living rooms or standing in parks, giving testimony in straightforward but subtly grave tones. They’ve all narrowly survived death after being struck by lightning. An expert is called on to explain how electricity enters the […]

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The programme looks like a normal news broadcast at first. A series of ordinary people are filmed sitting in their living rooms or standing in parks, giving testimony in straightforward but subtly grave tones. They’ve all narrowly survived death after being struck by lightning. An expert is called on to explain how electricity enters the […]

The programme looks like a normal news broadcast at first. A series of ordinary people are filmed sitting in their living rooms or standing in parks, giving testimony in straightforward but subtly grave tones. They’ve all narrowly survived death after being struck by lightning. An expert is called on to explain how electricity enters the […]

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