Armchair Nation (66 page)

36
. Denis Norden,
Coming to You Live! Behind-the-Screen Memories of Forties and Fifties Television
(London: Methuen, 1985), pp. 181–2; Jeremy Black,
Britain since the Seventies: Politics and Society in the Consumer Age
(London: Reaktion, 2004), p. 27; ‘Seven years of TV commercials',
Guardian
, 23 March 1962.

37
. Mary Hill, ‘And now it's television in the morning',
TV Times
, 20 September 1955, 14.

38
. Iona and Peter Opie,
The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1959), p. 116.

39
. Head of Television Design (Richard Levin) to CP Tel, 11 May 1955, BBC WAC, T16/156.

40
. ‘Television as part of everyday life',
The Times
, 6 September 1955.

41
. Harry Hopkins,
The New Look: A Social History of the Forties and Fifties in Britain
(London: Secker and Warburg, 1963), p. 414.

42
. Michael Davie, ‘ITV: The Pit or the Pendulum?',
Observer
, 4 December 1955.

43
. Richard Hoggart,
The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working-Class Life
(London: Penguin, 2009), p. 157; Ronald Hilborne, ‘The great god TAM',
Tribune
, 1 October 1965.

44
. Clifford Davis, ‘2,000,000 hear TV – but don't see it',
Daily Mirror
, 24 October 1955; ‘Stranger than truth',
Punch
, 14 August 1957, 172; Hopkins,
The New Look
, p. 414.

45
. Kenneth Clark,
The Other Half: A Self-Portrait
(London: Harper and Row, 1977), pp. 147, 208.

46
. ‘When “the telly” is one of the family …',
Daily Mirror
, 14 February 1956; ‘The astonishing story behind … TELEMANIA',
Daily Mirror
, 13 February 1956; G. A. Rose, ‘Television angina',
British Medical Journal
, 5120 (21 February 1959), 506.

47
. Geoffrey Gorer, ‘Television in our lives',
Sunday Times
, 13 April 1958; Geoffrey Gorer, ‘TV and the growing child',
Sunday Times
, 4 May 1958; Geoffrey Gorer, ‘Notes on television', 20 October 1957, MOA, SxMs52/1/7/3/2/1.

48
. Geoffrey Gorer, ‘Television in our lives – is it a drug or a stimulant?',
Sunday Times
, 20 April 1958; Gorer, ‘Television in our lives', 13 April 1958; Enid Blyton to Geoffrey Gorer, 13 April 1958, MOA, SxMs52/1/7/3/2/1.

49
. Asa Briggs,
The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom, Volume V: Competition 1955–1974
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 148; Ruth Miller, ‘Spare the television and you won't spoil the child',
Daily Telegraph
, 6 February 1958; Bevis Hillier,
Betjeman: The Bonus of Laughter
(London: John Murray, 2004), pp. 6–7.

50
. Brian Jackson and Dennis Marsden,
Education and the Working Class
(London: Ark, 1986), p. 77.

51
. C. A. R. Crosland,
The Future of Socialism
(London: Jonathan Cape, 1964), p. 355; Lawrence Black, ‘Whose finger on the button? British TV and the politics of cultural control',
Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television
, 25, 4 (October 2005), 567.

52
. Dennis Potter,
The Changing Forest: Life in the Forest of Dean Today
(London: Minerva, 1996), pp. 113, 9; Humphrey Carpenter,
Dennis Potter: The Authorised Biography
(London: Faber, 1998), p. 103.

53
. Michael Young and Peter Willmott,
Family and Kinship in East London
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962), p. 143.

54
. Philip Ziegler,
Crown and People
(London: Collins, 1978), p. 118.

55
. ‘A hundred music-halls closed since the war',
The Times
, 28 January 1959; ‘Repertory theatres',
Manchester Guardian
, 5 October 1953; Baz Kershaw, ‘British theatre, 1940–2002: an introduction', in Kershaw
(ed.),
The Cambridge History of British Theatre, Volume 3: Since 1895
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), p. 297; Timothy West,
A Moment Towards the End of the Play
(London: Nick Hern Books, 2001), p. 37.

56
. Philip Hope-Wallace, ‘Shortening the theatre front',
Manchester Guardian
, 26 February 1955; Kershaw, ‘British theatre, 1940–2002', p. 297; Irene Shubik,
Play for Today: The Evolution of Television Drama
(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000), p. 77.

57
. Reyburn,
Gilbert Harding
, p. 59; Claire Langhamer,
Women's Leisure in England, 1920–1960
(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000), p. 41; Caroline Brown, ‘The fascination of knitting',
Guardian
, 30 December 1959; Mary Townsend Dunn, ‘The effects of TV',
Sunday Times
, 20 April 1958.

58
. Geoffrey Gorer, ‘Home life, habits and hobbies',
Sunday Times
, 27 April 1958; Leonard Miall, ‘Monday nights at Lime Grove', in Miall (ed.),
Richard Dimbleby, Broadcaster: By His Colleagues
(London: BBC, 1966), p. 101; Gorer, ‘Television in our lives', 13 April 1958; William Empson to Geoffrey Gorer, 14 April 1958, MOA, SxMs52/1/7/3/2/1.

59
. The Pythons,
The Pythons: The Autobiography
(London: Orion, 2005), p. 74.

60
. Michael Frayn, ‘The long and the short and the curl',
Guardian
, 14 October 1959; Philip Norman,
Buddy: The Biography
(London: Macmillan, 1996), p. 224.

61
. Gorer, ‘TV and the growing child'; Peter Hennessy,
Having It So Good: Britain in the Fifties
(London: Penguin, 2007), p. 108.

62
. Jeremy Mynott,
Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009), p. 298.

63
. ABC Telefusion Presentation, ‘Down with Aerials!',
c
. 1960, britishpathe.com (accessed 4 September 2011); Ralph Edwards, ‘Television aerials',
The Times
, 31 May 1960;
Desert Island Discs
, BBC Radio 4, 2 July 2000.

64
. Malcolm Bradbury,
All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go
(London: Picador, 2000), pp. 178–9, 101, 106.

65
. Harold Evans,
My Paper Chase
(London: Abacus, 2010), p. 168; ‘Commercial TV in the north',
Manchester Guardian
, 6 October 1955; Denis Forman,
Persona Granada: Some Memories of Sidney Bernstein
and the Early Years of Independent Television
(London: André Deutsch, 1997), p. 51; Julia Hallam, ‘Introduction: the development of commercial TV in Britain', in John Finch (ed.),
Granada Television: The First Generation
(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003), p. 20.

66
. ‘Television: some thoughts, some views and a dream',
The Economist
, 16 March 1963, 995.

67
. Forman,
Persona Granada
, p. 51.

68
. Forman,
Persona Granada
, p. 64; Tom Harrisson, ‘Television at Bolton and Borneo', 15 July 1960, MOA, SxMOA1/5/19/65/I/5.

69
. Harry Elton, ‘The programme committee and
Coronation Street
', in Finch (ed.),
Granada TV
, p. 101; Richard Whiteley,
Himoff! The Memoirs of a TV Matinée Idle
(London: Orion, 2000), p. 34; Deborah Ross, ‘Richard Whiteley – No taste, no style, no shame. No contest',
Independent
, 15 February 1999.

70
. Jamie Medhurst,
A History of Independent Television in Wales
(Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2010), pp. 34, 62, 105.

71
. Natasha Vall,
Cultural Region: North East England 1945–2000
(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011), p. 4; Geoff Phillips,
Memories of Tyne Tees Television
(Durham: GP Electronic Services, 1998), pp. 48, 143.

72
. Dick Joice,
Full Circle
(Woodbridge: Boydell, 1991), pp. 141, 167–71.

73
. ‘How to land a peak audience',
Observer
, 19 March 1967.

74
. Colin Willock, ‘TV in the country',
Observer
, 19 February 1967.

75
. Brum Henderson,
Brum: A Life in Television
(Belfast: Appletree Press, 2003), pp. 75, 66–8.

76
. Vall,
Cultural Region
, p. 44; Phillips,
Memories of Tyne Tees Television
, pp. 94, 140.

77
. Vall,
Cultural Region
, pp. 40–41, 45, 7.

78
. Antony Brown,
Tyne Tees Television: The First 20 Years: A Portrait
(Newcastle: Tyne Tees Television, 1978), p. 6; Henderson,
Brum
, p. 77.

79
. Mary Crozier, ‘Tyneside's tough television',
Guardian
, 8 June 1960; Mary Crozier, ‘Anglia Television',
Guardian
, 11 July 1960; Joice,
Full Circle
, pp. 176–7.

80
. ‘Rush order of TV masts',
Irish Times
, 27 May 1953; Jeremy Lewis,
Playing for Time
(London: Flamingo, 1988), p. 34.

81
. J. L. Judd to Gordon-Brown, 27 June 1961, NA, HO 284/72; A. D. Gordon-Brown to J. L. Judd, 18 July 1961, NA, HO 284/72.

82
. Andrew Mulligan, ‘Pirates in the British channel',
Observer
, 11 July 1965; John Ardagh,
The New France: A Society in Transition 1945–1973
(Harmondsworth: Pelican, 1973), pp. 607, 619; ‘British TV seen in New York',
Manchester Guardian
, 26 October 1956.

83
. Sir George Barnes, ‘BBC Television: a national service',
Radio Times
, 16 September 1955, 3.

84
. ‘Sooan Sids',
Orkney Herald
, 18 October 1955.

85
. ‘What the Pier Head is saying',
Orkney Herald
, 15 November 1955.

86
. Islandman, ‘Look out, it's coming',
Orkney Herald
, 2 February 1954.

87
. ‘Sooan Sids',
Orkney Herald
, 31 December 1957.

88
. Howard Hazell,
The Orcadian Book of the 20th Century
(Kirkwall: Orcadian Ltd, 2000), p. 217.

89
. Reyburn,
Harding
, pp. 97–8; Grenfell (ed.),
Gilbert Harding: By His Friends
, p. 183.

90
. Reyburn,
Harding
, pp. 60, 90.

91
. Reyburn,
Harding
, p. 51; ‘Dimbleby's dip',
Guardian
, 21 January 1960.

92
. Jonathan Dimbleby,
Richard Dimbleby
(London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1975), pp. 295, 321–2.

93
. Richard Lindley,
Panorama: 50 Years of Pride and Paranoia
(London: Politico's, 2002), p. 152.

94
. ‘Harding back – for two minutes',
Daily Mirror
, 19 March 1955; John Freeman, ‘The captive viewer',
New Statesman
, 28 May 1960, 782; Jack Tinker,
The Television Barons
(London: Quartet, 1980), p. 173.

95
. Hugh Burnett, ‘Producing
Face to Face
',
Radio Times
, 16 September 1960, 13; Grenfell (ed.),
Gilbert Harding: By His Friends
, p. 139.

96
. Audience Research Department, ‘Audience research report:
Face to Face
: Gilbert Harding and John Freeman, Sunday 18th September 1960', 7 October 1960, BBC WAC, R9/7/48.

97
. Holmes,
Entertaining Television
, p. 195; Hugh Burnett,
Face to Face
(London: Jonathan Cape, 1964), p. 3;
Radio Times
, 16 September 1960, 15.

98
. Holmes,
Entertaining Television
, pp. 177–8; Douglas Warth,
Daily Herald
, 19 February 1958; James Thomas, ‘The cruel keyhole',
Daily Express
, 19 February 1958.

99
. Reginald Pound, ‘Critic on the hearth',
Listener
, 25 November 1954, 928; ‘This Is Your Life',
Manchester Guardian
, 4 February 1958; ‘The very moment he said it',
Daily Express
, 17 November 1960; Merrick Winn, ‘Should Harding have said it?',
Daily Express
, 20 September 1960.

100
. Reyburn,
Harding
, p. 119; ‘Mr. Gilbert Harding dies suddenly',
The Times
, 17 November 1960; ‘Gilbert Harding dies on steps of BBC',
Daily Express
, 17 November 1960.

101
. ‘Mr Gilbert Harding',
Glasgow Herald
, 18 December 1953; ‘Gilbert Harding ordered to bed',
The Bulletin
, 5 September 1953; Grenfell (ed.),
Gilbert Harding: By His Friends
, pp. 22, 24.

102
. Stephen Grenfell, ‘Foreword', in
Gilbert Harding: By His Friends
, p. 12; Brian Masters,
Getting Personal: A Biographer's Memoir
(London: Constable, 2002), p. 94.

103
. Miall,
Inside the BBC
, p. 59; ‘Richard Dimbleby – 30 years of broadcasting',
Listener
, 18 September 1975, 365; Lindley,
Panorama
, p. 166.

104
. Reyburn,
Harding
, p. 120; John D. W. Greene and John R. Hodges, ‘Identification of famous faces and famous names in early Alzheimer's disease',
Brain
, 119, 1 (February 1996), 111, 128.

105
. Hansard, HC Deb, 8 May 1961, vol. 640, col. 182–3.

106
. ‘Television plain or purled',
The Economist
, 26 August 1961, 812.

107
. Gorer, ‘Television in our lives', 13 April 1958; Gorer, ‘Television in our lives', 20 April 1958; Himmelweit
et al., Television and the Child
, p. 12; Iona and Peter Opie,
The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren
, p. 118.