Below are listed our podcasts, interviews, events and talks related to the Backstage Heritage Collection.
If you’re organising a talk that would be of interest to other Backstage Heritage folk, please let us know!
Podcast
We’re grateful to the Society for Theatre Research for enabling the launch of this podcast series.
 April 202501 Simon Wood at the London Palladium Simon Wood, sound engineer at the London Palladium and Victoria Palace Theatre (1969-1984) in conversation with Jon Primrose, co-presented by Sarah Goldingay |
| 02 Coming soon |
Interviews
April 2018 Lighting Designer – Anne Militello |
Talks & Seminars
 September 2024The Evolution of Theatre Sound Talk with sound designers Martin Levan and Gareth Owen, chaired by Rob Halliday. From the PLASA Show, September 2 2024.Topics covered: Starlight Express, Carrie, Radio Microphones, A/B Systems, History of Musical Theatre sound design, working with producers. |
 June 2018Women in Production Management Production Managers Forum, featuring Hannah Lobb, Sacha Kilroy, Jacqui Leigh. Forum chaired by Sarah Rushton-Reed. From the ABTT Theatre Show, June 6 2018. |
 September 2016Inventing The Future: The Story of the National Theatre’s Lightboard by Rob Halliday PLASA, 18 September 2016 |
November 2015 The White Heat of Revolution by Dorian Kelly A talk at the Savoy Theatre, London |
March 2015 A Short(ish) History of Computers In Lighting Control by Rob Halliday A talk at the National Museum of Computing, Bletchley, Milton Keynes |
October 2014 PLASA Launch of the Backstage Heritage Collection featuring ‘Re-discovering Lighting – Past, Present and Future’, a seminar presented by Neil Austin, Robert Bell, Rob Halliday, Jim Laws and chaired by Richard Pilbrow |
| April 1962 Outside Broadcasts 11 April 1962 – TV Meeting COMING SOON |
 October 1961Television Lighting with SCRs – Fred Bentham & Len Leggett – Strand Demonstration of LC/SCR 25 October 1961 – TV Meeting (Courtesy of Paul Middleton) |
| April 1961 Talk by Desmond Campbell about Alexandra Palace, recorded at the Strand Lecture Theatre (Courtesy of Paul Middleton) |
| August 1960 Strand Electric Australia Introduction by Denis Irving (D.C.I.) Discussion at Sydney Television Society Meeting 18 August 1960 COMING SOON |
| 1960 Discussion on Big Television Studios, at Strand Lecture Theatre (Courtesy of Paul Middleton) |
| 1960s Fred Bentham – Demonstration of SCR desk with memory & discussion. Featuring B Bear, Len Leggett. Partial recording from reel-to-reel tape 3.75 ips COMING SOON |
| 1960s Planning Lighting the Stage – Recorded Lecture No.2 – Copy No.3 (incomplete) – Recording from reel-to-reel tape 3.75 ips Unknown date COMING SOON |
 April 1946Leonard George Applebee – The Evolution of Stage Lighting |