Pinkoes and Traitors: The BBC and the nation, 1974–1987

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Profile Books, 26 févr. 2015 - 384 pages

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 des matières

Introduction
the Conservative Athene
money money money
The right amount of blood
culture vulture
the public service animal
British Shintoism at work
our boys versus the British
the triumph of the trouser suit
public service popular
the domestic Homer
public service tradecraft Endgame
BBC directorsgeneral and chairmen
Notes
Acknowledgements
Index

biblical famine news and changing
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Autres éditions - Tout afficher

"Pinkoes and Traitors": The BBC and the Nation, 1974-1987
Jean Seaton
Aucun aperçu disponible - 2015
Under Siege: The BBC in the Crisis Years - 1974-1987
Jean Seaton
Aucun aperçu disponible - 2015

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À propos de l'auteur (2015)

Jean Seaton is Professor of Media History at the University of Westminster and Director of the Orwell Prize for political writing and journalism. She has written widely on broadcasting history and politics of the media (especially the BBC), as well as on news, the ways in which wars and conflicts are covered, and children and the media. She has written about and helped form media policy. Her book with James Curran, Power Without Responsibility: the Press, Broadcasting and Internet in Britain (1981), has become an international classic and is in its 7th edition. Her most recent book is Carnage and the Media: How News about Violence is Made (2006). She is a regular broadcaster and an editor of the Political Quarterly. She has three sons and lives in London.

Informations bibliographiques

TitrePinkoes and Traitors: The BBC and the nation, 1974–1987
AuteurJean Seaton
ÉditeurProfile Books, 2015
ISBN1847659160, 9781847659163
Longueur384 pages
  
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