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Broadcasting and the NHS in the Thatcherite 1980s
The Challenge to Public Service
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About this book
Patricia Holland offers a fascinating study of the ways in which changes to public services, and shifts in the concept of 'the public' under Margaret Thatcher's three Conservative governments, were mediated by radio and television in the 1980s.
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Index
Note: Letter ‘n’ followed by the locators refer to footnotes
‘Access’ programmes, 58, 152
activism, 27, 43, 46, 58, 61, 97, 106
ACTT, 61, 94
see also Trade Unions
Adams, Jad, 164, 165
Adam Smith Institute, 126, 194, 204, 214
AIDS, 154–66
see also gay men; Health Education Council
American Medical International Health Care Group (AMI), 192, 193
American television series, 9, 99, 114, 147, 151, 162, 170, 187, 224
see also Programme References
America, see USA
Analysis, 31–5, 55, 75, 85, 126, 220
see also current affairs; Programme References
ancillary workers, 12, 54, 78, 140, 183
in dramas and comedies, 80, 172–3, 176–7
in reporting of strikes, 70–2, 75, 198
Annan Committee on Future of Broadcasting, 24, 63–5
Annan, Lord Noel, 203, 206
Annan Report, see Annan Committee
Association of Cinematograph and Television Technicians, see ACTT
Association of Independent Radio Contractors (AIRC), 145–6
ATV (Associated Television), 52, 122
see also ITV; Programme References
‘auction’ for ITV franchises, 144, 204, 205, 212, 213, 218
audience, 13, 33, 56–7, 65, 82–3, 90, 128, ...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue: Echoes of the 1980s
- Introduction: Thatcherism, the Public and Writing Broadcasting History
- Chronology and Programmes: 1927–1970
- Chronology and Programmes: 1970–1980
- Chronology and Programmes: 1979–1983
- Chronology and Programmes: 1983–1987
- Chronology and Programmes: 1986–1990
- Concluding Comments: Public Service or Kitemark?
- Programme References
- References
- Index