Speakers include:

• Dr Michael Stewart (QMU),
• Dr Faye Woods (Reading),
• Dr Beth Johnson (Keele),
• Dr Hannah Andrews (York),
• Lisa Holdsworth (TV writer),
• Dr Martin Zeller-Jacques (QMU)
• Dr Kristyn Gorton (York)

We want to reopen conversations about the value and meaning of melodrama in the current context, and consider its potential to offer a different form of engagement with television than that which presently dominates.

This Symposium is hosted by the Department of Theatre, Film & Television & the Northern Television Research Group and organised by Dr Kristyn Gorton, Dr Hannah Andrews and Dr Amy Holdsworth (Glasgow).