{"id":8657,"date":"2020-01-30T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=8657"},"modified":"2020-02-24T10:08:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T10:08:17","slug":"heath-atkinson-cigar-box-blues-radio-sheffield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/heath-atkinson-cigar-box-blues-radio-sheffield\/","title":{"rendered":"Professors Virginia Heath and Paul Atkinson speak to Radio Sheffield about ‘Cigar Box Blues – The Makers of a Revolution’ documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professors Virginia Heath<\/a> and Paul Atkinson<\/a> have been speaking to Rony Robinson on Radio Sheffield<\/a> (at 38:00) about their documentary focused on the men who make and play their own cigar box guitars. Find out more, and read interviews with both Virginia and Paul, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Paul Atkinson<\/a>\u00a0is Professor of Design and Design History in the Art and Design Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University. He is the author of various books and articles that have explored the design history of the computer, the design history of the electric guitar, the relationship between amateur and professional design practice and the history of the DIY and Maker Movements.<\/p>\n

Virginia Heath<\/a>\u00a0is Professor of Film in the Art and Design Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University. She is a multi-award winning writer\/director with New Zealand and UK nationality. She directs documentary and drama films including the acclaimed, BAFTA nominated,\u00a0From Scotland With Love<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and Berlinale award winning\u00a0Relativity<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professors Virginia Heath and Paul Atkinson have been speaking to Rony Robinson on Radio Sheffield (at 38:00) about their documentary focused on the men who make and play their own cigar box guitars. Find out more, and read interviews with both Virginia and Paul, here. Paul Atkinson\u00a0is Professor of Design and Design History in the Art and Design Research Centre […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8633,"featured_media":8412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[5,960,1399,124,115,164,267,1457,1456,1080,259],"class_list":["post-8657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-art-and-design-research-centre","tag-bbc","tag-cigar-box-blues","tag-film-research","tag-media-arts-research","tag-paul-atkinson","tag-radio","tag-radio-sheffield","tag-rony-robinson","tag-three-chords-and-the-truth","tag-virginia-heath"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2019\/12\/2019-12-16-HEATH-ATKINSON-Cigar-Box-Blues-BBC-1-e1582538891369.jpg?fit=1200%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8oFHo-2fD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9747,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/professor-of-design-and-design-history-part-of-bbc-4-documentary\/","url_meta":{"origin":8657,"position":0},"title":"Professor of Design and Design history part of BBC 4 documentary","author":"Phoebe Bolton","date":"18\/12\/2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Paul Atkinson, professor of design and design history spoke to\u00a0BBC Radio Sheffield\u00a0[listen again from 2:18] about his part in tonight's BBC 4 documentary about a group of makers and players of cigar box guitars. 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