Our look at left wing publications, produced by the Alternative Media History group, has been one of the successes of the Community in a Studio project. Now they are thinking about making series 2 in the Autumn. One of the things they think is they’ll need more people involved – as researchers, as studio crew, as panelists, as editors etc. If you liked the show or just want a go at making some television contact lookingleft@dctv.ie.

There’ll be representatives of Looking Left down at the Greaves School http://www.greavesschool.com/ with copies of the DVD and you can watch the first series online.

Daniel Finn returns to present the fourth episode of Looking Left. Produced as part of Community in a Studio, this DCTV series uses historical journals of the left as a hinge to explore the issues that animated the movements and politics of the past. In this edition, we take a look at The Irish Socialist. The panel includes two people involved in the production of the paper, Noel Redmond and Mick O’Reilly. Dr Anne Matthews, a historian familiar with the communist movement here and our regular man on the labour beat, Connor McCabe also sits in on the panel.

Looking Left 003 from DCTV on Vimeo.

There’s a new episode of Looking Left available on Vimeo today.  Looking Left is proving to be one of our more popular shows, with a decent online following on the left wing blogosphere.  Check out Irish Left Review, where one of the group involved in producing the show has uploaded copies of Graton and Z Mag, both magazines that arose from the struggles of the early eighties.

As usual we stick all new content on our front page, it also gets sucked into our video section via a Vimeo plug in.  We will eventually get around to bringing you a better way of viewing our online content.  The sudden upsurge in content surprises us as much as you.

We’ve just put some photos up from Crew TV and the Looking Left shoot from the third episode. Check out our Facebook and Flickr for more. Make us your friend and spread word!

The Looking Left Shoot went well last night, it focused on Gralton and Z Mag.  Two magazines that came out of the struggles and new community movements of the 1980’s.    You can read about Z Mag over on Cedar Lounge.