Sudan TV guide: documentary interviews and the family-magazine archive

At a glance

A documentary interview preserves an individual account

The July 2016 profile of Names in Our Lives describes documentary interviews with Sudanese and Arab figures from fields including literature, arts, science and public life. Its stated purpose is to preserve visual accounts and connect past experience with later audiences.

For an archive viewer, the person and interview context are important parts of the reference. A participant’s memory is valuable as testimony, while dates or disputed events may need other records alongside it. The interview’s documentary purpose does not make every recollection a complete history of the country.

Beitna combines several kinds of contribution

The broadcaster’s separate July 2016 Beitna profile describes a mixed magazine with reports, social and cultural items, studio discussion and outside contributions from different parts of Sudan. This assembled form differs from following one person’s extended life account.

Someone interested in a cultural practice or a particular locality may find one magazine segment relevant, while a full edition preserves the surrounding subjects and transitions. The program name therefore helps identify the production family, but the segment’s subject remains useful when discussing a particular archive item.

An old production profile is not a present timetable

The current program directory continues to link these profiles. The descriptions themselves carry 2016 publication dates, even though the site also displays newer navigation dates. That distinction prevents an old transmission time or a historical production total from being presented as current.

Use these entries as a map of documented television forms: a biographical interview or a mixed family magazine. Retain the original program and subject when sharing an archive reference. This provides a useful route into Sudanese television memory without assuming that a historical schedule describes today’s broadcasts or that the website’s general clock confirms current production arrangements.

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A dated clock example

A program time needs a date and a named time zone. The example below converts the same fixed UTC instant into the zones recorded for this directory entry; it is an illustration rather than a live clock.

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