Armchair Nation (67 page)

108
. Harrisson, ‘Television at Bolton and Borneo'.

109
. Hansard, HC Deb, 2 May 1962, vol. 658, col. 1062; Richard Dyer,
Only Entertainment
(London: Routledge, 1992), p. 14.

1
. Brian Winston,
Messages: Free Expression, Media and the West from Gutenberg to Google
(Abingdon: Routledge, 2005), p. 357.

2
. H. T. Himmelweit, A. N. Oppenheim and P. Vince,
Television and the Child: An Empirical Study of the Effect of Television on the Young
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1958), pp. 181–3; Griff Rhys Jones,
Semi-Detached
(London: Penguin, 2007), p. 20.

3
. Burton Paulu,
Television and Radio in the United Kingdom
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1981), p. 342; ‘TV Children's Hour hits power supply',
Daily Mirror
, 11 December 1954.

4
.
New Scientist
, 19 July 1962, 129.

5
. ‘Double view of Test on Duke's TV',
Guardian
, 7 July 1961.

6
. ‘TV complaints brought home to minister',
The Times
, 24 April 1961.

7
. Mary Crozier, ‘All the fun of the air at Earls Court',
Guardian
, 22 August 1962; Edwin Morgan, ‘Unscrambling the waves at Goonhilly', in Ken Cockburn and Alec Finlay (eds),
The Order of Things: Scottish Sound, Pattern and Concrete Poetry
(Edinburgh: Polygon, 2001), p. 35.

8
. John Repsch,
The Legendary Joe Meek: The Telstar Man
(London: Cherry Red, 2000), pp. 17, 19–20.

9
. Repsch,
The Legendary Joe Meek
, pp. 144–5.

10
. Marshall McLuhan,
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
(London: Routledge, 2001), pp. 87, 336.

11
. Maurice Richardson, ‘Worms turn on Early Bird',
Observer
, 9 May 1965; Michael Billington, ‘Notable feat of organization',
The Times
, 26 June 1967.

12
.
Report of the Committee on Broadcasting, 1960
(London: HMSO, 1962), pp. 33, 35; ‘Instant television',
Guardian
, 7 July 1962.

13
. Richard Hoggart,
The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working-Class Life
(London: Penguin, 2009), p. 286; Simon Hoggart, ‘Foreword', in Hoggart,
The Uses of Literacy
, p. vi.

14
. Merlin, ‘Mainly about people',
Sunday Times
, 11 September 1960; Richard Hoggart, ‘The uses of television', in
Speaking to Each Other, Volume 1: About Society
(London: Chatto and Windus, 1970), p. 157; Richard Hoggart, ‘When the telly clock goes back',
Observer
, 12 August 1962.

15
. Richard Hoggart,
An Imagined Life: Life and Times, Volume III: 1959–91
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), p. 134; Humphrey Carpenter,
A Great Silly Grin: The British Satire Boom in the 1960s
(Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2003), pp. 212, 242.

16
. Carpenter,
A Great Silly Grin
, p. 235; David Frost,
An Autobiography, Part 1: From Congregations to Audiences
(London: HarperCollins, 1993), p. 95.

17
. Maurice Richardson, ‘
TW3
: inside story',
Observer
, 29 September 1963; Frost,
An Autobiography
, p. 70.

18
. Richard Hoggart,
Mass Media in a Mass Society
(London: Continuum, 2006), p. 109;
Desert Island Discs
, BBC Radio 4, 15 October 1995; John Ardagh, ‘TV satire is rage of the sixth',
Observer
, 10 March 1963.

19
. Carpenter,
A Great Silly Grin
, p. 272; ‘Eton boys admire “The Avengers”',
The Times
, 3 March 1964.

20
. Pharic MacLaren, ‘
Between the Lines
',
Radio Times
, 23 April 1964, 51; Michael Tracey, ‘Greene, Mrs Whitehouse and the BBC',
Observer
, 14 August 1983.

21
. Hoggart, ‘The uses of television', p. 158; ‘300,000 sign petition for cleaner television',
Guardian
, 24 April 1965; Lawrence Black,
Redefining British Politics: Culture, Consumerism and Participation, 1954–70
(Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), p. 115.

22
. Joan Bakewell,
The Centre of the Bed
(London: Sceptre, 2004), pp. 180–81; Kenneth Robinson, ‘Took it from here',
The Listener
, 16 August 1979, 210.

23
. ‘“Cathy Come Home” to be repeated',
The Times
, 21 December 1966; Michael Tracey and David Morrison,
Whitehouse
(Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1979), p. 71; ‘Audience of critics urged for second showing of “Cathy”',
Guardian
, 11 January 1967.

24
. Black,
Redefining British Politics
, pp. 105, 112, 108; Alisdair Farley, ‘Portrait of a lobby',
Listener
, 19 June 1967, 845–6; Mary Whitehouse, ‘Rawness and truth on TV',
Financial Times
, 8 December 1966.

25
. ‘Close-up of the TV viewer',
Guardian
, 3 September 1964; ‘Close view of the average viewer',
The Times
, 3 September 1964.

26
. Kenneth Adam, ‘A stretch towards happiness',
Radio Times
, 16 April 1964, 4; ‘Poll shows few BBC-2 viewers',
The Times
, 9 June 1964.

27
. ‘University exploration of popular culture',
The Times
, 6 June 1963.

28
. Barry Miles,
In the Sixties
(London: Jonathan Cape, 2002), p. 1; G. G. Eastwood, ‘Newspapers and colour magazines',
Guardian
, 23 November 1961.

29
. Anthony Burgess, ‘Television',
Listener
, 27 July 1967, 123; Anthony Burgess,
You've Had Your Time
(London: Penguin, 1991), p. 105.

30
. Kenneth Adam, ‘American television: “The coloured marquee”',
Listener
, 29 June 1967, 850.

31
. Memorandum by the Postmaster General, Cabinet Committee on Broadcasting Colour Television, 1965, NA, HO 256/387.

32
. Richard Wagner, ‘Colour TV switch-on tomorrow',
The Times
, 30 June 1967.

33
. Adam, ‘American television'; ‘BBC colour TV in December',
Guardian
, 21 April 1967; Attenborough, ‘American lesson is that ambition pays',
The Times
, 16 November 1967.

34
. Nicholas Garnham, ‘Bright and beautiful',
Listener
, 18 July 1968, 81; John Boorman,
Adventures of a Suburban Boy
(London: Faber, 2004), p. 98; ‘Colour TV is hard on the teeth',
The Times
, 27 September 1967.

35
. Peter Black, ‘Occasions in colour',
Listener
, 28 March 1968, 418; Garnham, ‘Bright and beautiful'; William Hardcastle, ‘Getting colour',
Listener
, 27 June 1968, 846.

36
. Timothy O'Sullivan,
Percy Thrower: A Biography
(London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1989), p. 115.

37
. Clifford Davis, ‘At the big off it's 750–1 against colour',
Daily Mirror
, 2 December 1967; Ronald Faux, ‘Western Islanders tune in to colour television',
The Times
, 20 July 1976.

38
. ‘TV salesmen look to the hills',
The Times
, 3 April 1964; Derek Cooper,
Skye
(London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970), p. 138.

39
. David Pat Walker,
The BBC in Scotland: The First Fifty Years
(Edinburgh: Luath Press, 2011), p. 240.

40
. Cooper,
Skye
, pp. 138–9.

41
. Kim Twatt,
Straight from the Horse's Mouth: The Orkney Herald, 1950–1961: The Paper and its People
(Kirkwall: Orcadian Ltd, 1996), p. 155.

42
. Rob Young,
Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music
(London: Faber, 2010), p. 34; Edwin Ardener, ‘“Remote areas” – some theoretical considerations', in
The Voice of Prophecy and Other Essays
, ed. Malcolm Chapman (Oxford: Berghahn, 2007), p. 219.

43
. Iain Crichton Smith, ‘Real people in a real place', in
Towards the Human: Selected Essays
(Edinburgh: Macdonald/Saltire Society, 1986), p. 17.

44
. Paul Gilchrist, ‘Reality TV on the rock face – climbing the Old Man of Hoy',
Sport in History
, 27, 1 (March 2007), 49; Dougal Haston,
In High Places
(Edinburgh: Canongate, 2003), p. 95.

45
. Carol Osborne, ‘An extraordinary Joe: the working-class climber as hero', in Stephen Wagg and Dave Russell (eds),
Sporting Heroes
of the North
(Newcastle: Northumbria Press, 2010), p. 61; Simon Thompson,
Unjustifiable Risk: The Story of British Climbing
(Milnthorpe: Cicerone Press, 2010), p. 231.

46
. Tom Patey, ‘The professionals', in
One Man's Mountains
(Edinburgh: Canongate, 1997), p. 225.

47
. A. Kenneth MacKenzie, ‘Points from the post',
Radio Times
, 20 July 1967, 2; Chris Bonington,
The Next Horizon
(London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2001), p. 202; Gilchrist, ‘Reality TV on the rock face', 58.

48
. Patey, ‘The professionals', pp. 217–18; Irene Shubik,
Play for Today: The Evolution of Television Drama
(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000), p. 161.

49
. ‘TV viewpoint on the Beatles',
Daily Mirror
, 30 December 1967; Kenelm Jenour, ‘Beatles' mystery tour baffles viewers',
Daily Mirror
, 27 December 1967.

50
. Garth and Carol Tucker, ‘The Beatles' film',
Listener
, 18 January 1968, 84.

51
. ‘Second class viewers',
The Times
, 12 January 1967; Malcolm Muggeridge, ‘Story behind the saga',
Observer
, 18 June 1967.

52
. A. Boydell, ‘Forsyte enchantment',
The Times
, 6 March 1969; Tracy Hargreaves, ‘“There's no place like home”: history and tradition in
The Forsyte Saga
and the BBC',
Journal of British Cinema and Television
, 6, 1 (May 2009), 39.

53
. Stanley Reynolds, ‘The Forsytes on
Late Night Line-Up
',
Guardian
, 12 February 1969; Anne Chisholm, ‘Why in mid-whirl of the permissive society, as we swing into the '70s …',
Radio Times
, 8 January 1970, 55.

54
. ‘Television and church work',
Manchester Guardian
, 17 January 1952; Gordon Ross,
Television Jubilee: The Story of 25 Years of B.B.C. Television
(London: W. H. Allen, 1961), p. 115; Lewis Chester,
All My Shows Are Great: The Life of Lew Grade
(London: Aurum, 2010), pp. 105–6; ‘Epilogue',
Guardian
, 9 May 1966.

55
. Hugh McLeod,
The Religious Crisis of the 1960s
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), p. 72; Mary Whitehouse,
Who Does She Think She Is?
(London: New English Library, 1971), p. 46.

56
. David W. James, ‘The Forsyte threat',
The Times
, 12 September 1968; Rowland Hill, ‘The Forsyte threat',
The Times
, 17 September
1968; A. N. Wilson,
Our Times: The Age of Elizabeth II
(London: Hutchinson, 2008), pp. 123–4.

57
. Simon Schama, ‘No Downers in “Downton”',
Newsweek
, 16 January 2012, 12; Ronald Blythe,
The Bookman's Tale
(Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2009), p. 88.

58
. Bernard Davies, ‘Non-swinging youth',
New Society
, 3 July 1969, 8.

59
. Ronald Blythe,
Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972), pp. 98, 237, 91, 241, 140, 142.

60
. J. G. Ballard,
Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton: An Autobiography
(London: Fourth Estate, 2008), p. 226.

61
. J. G. Ballard, ‘Escapement', in Ballard,
The Complete Short Stories: Volume 1
(London: Harper Perennial, 2006), p. 17.

62
. Bea Ballard, ‘J. G. Ballard',
Observer
, 13 December 2009; Bea Ballard, ‘Daddy saw such horrors as a boy in a prison camp …',
Daily Mail
, 18 June 2011; John Baxter,
The Inner Man: The Life of J. G. Ballard
(London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2011), p. 27.

63
. Ballard,
Miracles of Life
, p. 226.

64
. Raymond Williams, ‘A new way of seeing', in
Raymond Williams on Television: Selected Writings
, ed. Alan O'Connor (London: Routledge, 1989), p. 48.

65
. Fred Inglis,
Raymond Williams
(London: Routledge, 1998), pp. 223–4; ‘“Hostility” by minister',
Guardian
, 10 April 1961.

66
. Raymond Williams, ‘Watching from elsewhere', in
Raymond Williams on Television
, p. 67.

67
. Patrick Moore,
The Autobiography
(Stroud: Sutton, 2003), p. 67.

68
. Audience Research Department, ‘Audience research report,
Omnibus: An Entertainment for Moon-Night: So What If It's Just Green Cheese?
, 20th July 1969', 26 August 1969, BBC WAC, R9/7/100.

69
. Christopher Hitchens,
Hitch-22: A Memoir
(London: Atlantic Books, 2010), pp. 210–11; Michael Palin,
Diaries 1969–1979: The Python Years
(London: Phoenix, 2007), p. 5.