Open Space — Season 1, Episode 1: Power in Your Hands
30 min • 1 season, 37 episodes
Episode synopsis
In Liverpool today you can hardly turn a corner without ending up in yet another film report on the city's decline. Why, then, are so many Liverpudlians still frustrated by television's inability to recognise their real needs? Julie Walters , no stranger to life on Merseyside, returns to show what happened when those same people - from Croxteth, from. Bootle, from Liverpool 8 - were given the power to make programmes that said exactly what they wanted them to say...
About Open Space
Open Space was a programme produced by the BBC's Community Programme Unit. It was an evolution of the earlier Open Door series of programmes allowing minority points of view to make a television programme about issues of concern to them. The programmes were transmitted on BBC 2 in a mid-evening slot and would attract audiences between 500,000 and 1,500,000. In a typical year there would be two or three groups of up to eight Open Space programmes each usually half an hour long. A producer, an assistant and a budget of up to £25,000 would be allocated to each programme.
More episodes from Season 1
- E2Time and Other Thieves
- E3Christine's Children
- E4Chingari - The Spark
- E5National Health Service: 1: the Consultant's Tale
- E6National Health Service: 2: Mission of Mersey
- E7National Health Service: 3: On Whose Authority?
- E8A Day Off the Buses
- E9Ducking the Rocks - A Social Worker's Life
- E10Downtown Video
- E11Health Care: Your Money or Your Life
- E12A Healthy Future?
- E13A Midsummer Night’s Belfast