This compelling account of a turbulent period in the history of the BBC opens at a time of national decline under the Labour governments of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan, and ends during Margaret Thatcher's iconoclastic Conservative premiership. The intervening years saw mass unemployment, trade union strikes and war in Northern Ireland and the Falklands - as well as legendary BBC programmes such as Live Aid, Fawlty Towers and Dad's Army, The Singing Detective and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and David Attenborough's Life on Earth.
Comprehensively revised and expanded for this new edition, Jean Seaton's perceptive study presents an absorbing analysis of an institution that both reflects Britain and has helped to define it.
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Table of contents
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Publisher’s note on the revised edition
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Timeline
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Mrs Thatcher and the BBC: the Conservative Athene
- Chapter 2: The licence fee and BBC independence: money, money, money
- Chapter 3: Northern Ireland: ‘The right amount of blood’
- Chapter 4: Arts and music: culture vulture
- Chapter 5: Attenborough: the public service animal
- Chapter 6: The royal wedding: British Shintoism at work
- Chapter 7: The Falklands: ‘our boys’ versus ‘the British’
- Chapter 8: Ethiopia: biblical famine, news and changing aid
- Chapter 9: Women in the BBC: the triumph of the trouser suit
- Chapter 10: The entertainer: public service popular
- Chapter 11: Drama: the domestic Homer
- Chapter 12: Smiley’s real people: public service tradecraft
- Chapter 13: Endgame
- Appendix: BBC directors-general and chairmen
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- Index
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