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Author:   Patricia Holland
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   4.287kg
ISBN:  

9780230282377

ISBN 10:   0230282377
Pages:   245
Publication Date:   26 July 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Prologue: Echoes of the 1980s Introduction: Thatcherism, the Public and Writing Broadcasting History PART I: PROGRAMMES AND CHRONOLOGY 1927 - 1970 1. Myths of Origin: Public Service or the Road to Serfdom? PART II: PROGRAMMES AND CHRONOLOGY 1970 - 1980 2. Freedom and the Public: Campaigner, Participant, Consumer 3. Broadcasting into the 1980s PART III: PROGRAMMES AND CHRONOLOGY 1979 - 1983 4. Restructuring Social Class 5. From Needs to Wants: Restructuring Audiences, Restructuring Patients 6. Your Life in Whose Hands? Restructuring Professionals PART IV: PROGRAMMES AND CHRONOLOGY 1983 - 1987 7. The Third Age and the Fresh Winds of Market Forces: Restructuring Broadcasting 8 Griffiths, Peacock and Restructuring Public Service 9. Aids and 'the public' at Risk PART V: PROGRAMMES AND CHRONOLOGY 1986 - 1990 10. Who's the Casualty? Popular Programmes 11. The NHS and Third Term Politics 12. 'Quality' and the Broadcasting White Paper Postscript: Public Service or Kitemark?

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Patricia Holland is a writer, lecturer and researcher specialising in television, photography and popular imagery. She has many publications in these fields, including The Television Handbook (2000) and The Angry Buzz: 'This Week' and Current Affairs Television (2006). She is currently a lecturer at Bournemouth University, UK, and has previously worked as an independent filmmaker, a community bookseller, a television editor and a freelance journalist.

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