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122 RADIO AND television projects relating to history, culture and women’s issues have been awarded €5.9 million in funding from the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI).
Projects in which women take a lead creative role saw a significant increase in funding awards compared to the previous round of funding from this scheme. TV projects recommended for funding with a female director increased by 67% and 50% for those with a female writer.
The most popular category for both TV and radio was documentary pieces. The funding is awarded through the Sound & Vision 3 scheme which is funded through the television licence fee.
236 applications were sent for this round of funding. The BAI is the regulator of broadcasting in Ireland.
Many applications for projects in drama, animation, education and entertainment were also sent to the authority.
A RTÉ 1 project called Cold Case Collins intends to analyse the killing of Michael Collins in 1922. Dóchas – A place of hope is a three-part documentary planned for Virgin Media One featuring stories of Ireland’s female inmates.
A bilingual documentary for TG4 will examine what it is like to be old in Ireland in the 21st century. For young people, Youthquake 2 from WLR FM will aim to get this age group to develop scripts and story lines for radio plays dealing with topics such as underage drinking, peer pressure and sexuality.
A radio documentary called Hidden History: Ireland & The Slave Trade will examine Ireland’s role in the slave trade. A project for Dublin City FM called Murder, He Podcasted plans to examine the implications of Ireland’s podcast age.
Chief executive of the BAI Michael O’Keeffe said that these chosen projects are indicative of the “quality, variety and diversity” of content produced under the funding scheme.
Applications for the next round of funding will close on 7 November.
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It’s pretty bad alright. I’ve been in monsoon rains in Asia, and it was nothing compared to the rain I experienced on the NSW south coast today. I’ve used the phrase “bucketing down” all my life, but today was the first time I’ve used it accurately without exaggeration. It was like thousands of buckets of water were just being poured from the sky, relentlessly for about an hour. Then it just went back to heavy rain. Then it bucketed again for another hour or so, and when it did, you literally couldn’t see a meter outside your window.
Due to get worse tomorrow and then reduce to heavy rain for the next 10 days or so. But with everything else that’s happening in the world, I count my chickens that we are in a safely high area, and not a flood plane or a war zone.
@Jonathan Nolan: As you know its come down from Brisbane .. and you’re right, never seen rain like it. 250mm each day for 3 days solid. Some places had over a metre in that time. Had we had one more day I’d be cleaning out my own flooded house right now.
@Pablo: take care Pablo. Let’s hope it calms down or goes off the coast or something. It’s pretty ridiculous the amount of water coming down stay safe
@Jonathan Nolan: Take care, Jonathan. Melbourne is unusually humid but dry for now. Time to get a federal government that takes climate change seriously, that spends our taxes where it is needed, rather than on their mate.
@A Well Known Comical Stereotype AKA PRGuy: your not wrong.
@A Well Known Comical Stereotype AKA PRGuy: yeah it’s been lovely in Melbourne the last few weeks. The rain up there looks crazy. I heard that in one hour somewhere in Queensland they had more than Melbourne’s entire annual rainfall!
Hope you stay safe and dry there and can help others out. A metre of rain sounds destructive, especially on baked-dry land.
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