The Charles Parker Day

Charles Parker

The Charles Parker Day is an annual event held to recognise the work of the late BBC producer and celebrates ‘the radio feature – past, present and future’.

This year, the 10th Charles Parker Day will take place on Friday 22 March and will be hosted by the University of Salford in the Digital Performance Lab at its MediaCityUK campus.

2013 is the 50th anniversary of two of Parker's famous radio ballads made with Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger - 'On the Edge' about teenagers and 'The Fight Game' about boxing. Two of the main themes of this year’s conference are therefore ‘The radio feature and young people’ and ‘Sport on radio’.

On the day we will also celebrate the work of student feature makers throughout the UK and present Gold, Silver and Bronze Prizes to the winners of the Charles Parker Prize 2013.

Cost: £35 standard, £15 student

(includes lunch and morning & afternoon refreshments)

Purchase tickets here.

For further details about the Charles Parker Day 2013 and the Charles Parker Prize visit the Charles Parker Trust website at www.cpatrust.org.uk.

For any enquiries please contact Jan Bradley on 0161 295 2689, or email j.bradley@salford.ac.uk.

The Charles Parker Day is supported by BBC Radio 4, Soundscape Productions, the University of Salford, the Centre for Research in Media and Culture Studies at the University of Sunderland and the Charles Parker Trust.