Armchair Nation (68 page)

70
. ‘You write …',
Radio Times
, 31 July 1969, 2; Paul Trynka,
Starman: David Bowie: The Definitive Biography
(London: Sphere, 2010), p. 100; Peter Doggett,
The Man Who Sold the World: David Bowie and the 1970s
(London: The Bodley Head, 2011), p. 53.

71
. Doggett,
The Man Who Sold the World
, p. 55; Trynka,
Starman
, p. 100.

72
. Henry Raynor, ‘Reality through the spectrum',
The Times
, 15 November 1969.

73
. Peter Black, ‘New dimension for the viewer',
Illustrated London News
, 7 November 1970, 18.

74
. Martin Sherwood, ‘Visit to a small planet',
New Scientist
, 8 July 1971, 85.

75
. George Melly, ‘Losing out on the lunar drama',
Observer
, 23 November 1969; George Melly, ‘Flogging one's wonder',
Observer
, 1 June 1969.

76
. Adam, ‘American television'; Stanley Reynolds, ‘Television',
Guardian
, 6 July 1967.

77
. Peter Nichols,
Diaries, 1969–1977
(London: Nick Hern Books, 2000), p. 60.

1
. Irene Shubik,
Play for Today: The Evolution of Television Drama
(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000), p. 163.

2
. Michael Palin,
Diaries 1969–1979: The Python Years
(London: Phoenix, 2007), p. 15.

3
. Geoffrey Giuliano,
Dark Horse: The Life and Art of George Harrison
(Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 1997), p. 223; Joshua M. Greene,
Here Comes the Sun: The Spiritual and Musical Journey of George Harrison
(London: Bantam, 2006), p. 230.

4
. Laura Mulvey and Margarita Jiminez, ‘The spectacle is vulnerable: Miss World, 1970', in Laura Mulvey,
Visual and Other Pleasures
(Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1989), p. 5.

5
. ‘Germaine Greer',
Listener
, 21 January 1971, 79.

6
. Christopher Hitchens, ‘Credibility politics: sado-monetarist economics', in
For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports
(London: Verso, 1993), p. 162.

7
.
BBC Annual Report and Accounts, 1969–70
(London: BBC, 1970), p. 25;
BBC Annual Report and Accounts, 1970–1
(London: BBC, 1971), p. 21.

8
. ‘Watching TV is favourite attraction of tourists',
Guardian
, 14 October 1970; Anthony Sampson, ‘Doing our own thing',
Observer
, 12 July 1970; Anthony Sampson,
New Anatomy of Britain
(London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1971), p. 427.

9
. Central Statistical Office,
Social Trends
, No. 3, 1972 (London: HMSO, 1972), p. 103; Milton Shulman,
The Ravenous Eye: The Impact of the Fifth Factor
(London: Cassell, 1973), p. 1.

10
. Ernest Dewhurst, ‘Granada viewers are now good listeners',
Guardian
, 9 June 1970.

11
. Auberon Waugh, ‘Welcome to Ruritania',
Time
, 26 November 1973, 48; James Lees-Milne,
Diaries, 1971–1983
(London: John Murray, 2008), p. 118.

12
. Simon Hoggart, ‘Labour derides clamp on TV',
Guardian
, 26 January 1974; Andrew Roth,
Heath and the Heathmen
(London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972), p. 213; Keith Waterhouse, ‘The light fantastic',
Daily Mirror
, 14 January 1974.

13
. Peter Fiddick, ‘The interesting thing is that people are relieved of some awful frustration …',
Guardian
, 28 January 1974.

14
. David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh,
The British General Election of February 1974
(London: Macmillan, 1974), p. 67.

15
. Rex Cathcart,
The Most Contrary Region: The BBC in Northern Ireland 1924–1984
(Belfast: Blackstaff, 1984), p. 257.

16
. Andrew McKinney,
Our Jimmy: A Celebration of James Young
(Belfast: Brehon Press, 2003), p. 114; Jonathan Bardon,
Beyond the Studio: A History of BBC Northern Ireland
(Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 2000), p. 86.

17
. Pat Loughrey, ‘Culture and identity: the BBC's role in Northern Ireland', in Martin McLoone (ed.),
Broadcasting in a Divided Community: Seventy Years of the BBC in Northern Ireland
(Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University of Belfast, 1996), p. 70; McKinney,
Our Jimmy
, pp. 118, 123.

18
. Burton Paulu,
Television and Radio in the United Kingdom
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1981), p. 351; Henri Bergson,
Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
(Rockville, MD: Arc Manor, 2008), p. 11; Katharine Whitehorn, ‘Coachloads of clappers',
Observer
, 10 March 1974.

19
. Leon Hunt,
British Low Culture: From Safari Suits to Sexploitation
(London: Routledge, 1998), p. 53; Francis Bennion, ‘Laugh at thy neighbour',
New Society
, 31 July 1975, 256; John Twitchin (ed.),
The Black and White Media Book: Handbook for the Study of Racism and Television
(Stoke on Trent: Trentham, 1990), p. 124.

20
. Kenneth Williams, ‘Preview',
Radio Times
, 27 September – 3 October 1975, 15; David Croft,
You Have Been Watching … The Autobiography of David Croft
(London: BBC Books, 2004), p. 193.

21
. Peter Kane, ‘A Goodies fan dies laughing',
Daily Mirror
, 29 March 1975; Brian Viner,
Nice to See It, To See It, Nice: The 1970s in Front of the Telly
(London: Simon and Schuster, 2009), p. 12; Palin,
Diaries
, pp. 282, 290.

22
. Jimmy Perry,
A Stupid Boy
(London: Arrow, 2003), p. 105; Audience Research Department, ‘Audience research report,
Dad's Army
, Wednesday, 31st July, 1968', 16 August 1968, BBC WAC, VR/68/461; Penny Summerfield and Corinna Peniston-Bird,
Contesting Home Defence: Men, Women and the Home Guard in the Second World War
(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007), pp. 191–2.

23
. Perry,
A Stupid Boy
, p. 176; Shelina Zahra Janmohamed,
Love in a Headscarf
(London: Aurum, 2009), p. 33.

24
. Ruvani Ranasinha,
South Asian Writers in Twentieth-Century Britain: Culture in Translation
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), p. 222; Philip Howard, ‘Immigrants in Southall form a tightly knit community',
The Times
, 9 June 1976.

25
. Peter Fiddick, ‘It is on the cards that 1976 will prove to be the year the box lobby lost its grip',
Guardian
, 5 April 1976; Kenneth Gosling, ‘Colour TV sets outnumber black-and-white',
The Times
, 12 October 1976; ‘1-in-5 dole scroungers, says MP',
Guardian
, 12 July 1976; Michael Parkin, ‘The benefit of the doubt',
Guardian
, 3 January 1977.

26
. George Mackay Brown, ‘The last ballad',
Listener
, 20 June 1968, 800.

27
. Maggie Fergusson,
George Mackay Brown: The Life
(London: John Murray, 2007), p. 182; Ron Ferguson,
George Mackay Brown: The Wound and the Gift
(Edinburgh: Saint Andrew Press, 2011), p. 164; Mackay Brown, ‘The last ballad', 801.

28
. George Mackay Brown,
An Orkney Tapestry
(London: Quartet Books, 1973), pp. 20, 50–51; Mackay Brown, ‘The last ballad', 800.

29
. George Mackay Brown,
Letters from Hamnavoe
(London: Steve Savage, 2002), pp. 91, 87.

30
. George Mackay Brown,
Under Brinkie's Brae
(London: Steve Savage, 2003), p. 56; George Mackay Brown,
Rockpools and Daffodils: An Orcadian Diary 1979–1991
(Edinburgh: Gordon Wright Publishing, 1992), p. 119; Brown,
Letters from Hamnavoe
, p. 119.

31
. Brown,
Letters from Hamnavoe
, pp. 144–5.

32
. Brown,
Under Brinkie's Brae
, p. 22.

33
. Tom Stoppard, ‘Preview',
Radio Times
, 7 November 1974, 5; D. J. Enright, ‘Quick brown fox',
Listener
, 15 March 1973, 326.

34
. ‘So who's afraid of Dr Who?',
Daily Mirror
, 22 January 1975; Nancy Mills, ‘The man Who is',
Guardian
, 4 September 1976; James Chapman,
Inside the Tardis: The Worlds of Doctor Who: A Cultural History
(London: I. B. Tauris, 2006), pp. 99, 114.

35
. Richard North, ‘Nice to see you – to see you, nice',
Listener
, 23 December 1976, 805.

36
. Bruce Forsyth,
Bruce: The Autobiography
(London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 2001), p. 11.

37
. Joanne Turney,
The Culture of Knitting
(Oxford: Berg, 2009), p. 38; Hilary Kingsley and Geoff Tibballs,
Box of Delights: The Golden Years of Television
(London: Macmillan, 1989), p. 158.

38
. ‘TV fury over rock boot filth',
Daily Mirror
, 2 December 1976.

39
. Jonathan Ross,
Why Do I Say These Things
(London: Bantam, 2008), pp. 259–60; Greil Marcus,
Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989), p. 3.

40
. Simon Frith, ‘Look! Hear! The uneasy relationship of music and television',
Popular Music
, 21, 3 (October 2002), 279; Paulu,
Television and Radio in the United Kingdom
, p. 309.

41
. Marc Spitz,
David Bowie: A Biography
(London: Aurum, 2010), p. 194.

42
. Dylan Jones,
When Ziggy Played Guitar: David Bowie and Four Minutes That Shook the World
(London: Preface, 2012), pp. 1–2, 136–7.

43
. Boy George,
Take It Like a Man: The Autobiography of Boy George
(London: Pan, 1995), p. 61; Dave Rimmer,
New Romantics: The Look
(London: Omnibus Press, 2003), pp. 102–3.

44
. Paul Baker,
Polari: The Lost Language of Gay Men
(London: Routledge, 2002), p. 117.

45
. Dick Emery,
In Character
(London: Robson Books, 1973), p. 84.

46
. Andy Medhurst,
A National Joke: Popular Comedy and English Cultural Identity
(Abingdon: Routledge, 2007), p. 86; Baker,
Polari
, p. 118.

47
. Home Office,
Report of the Committee on the Future of Broadcasting
(London: HMSO, 1977), p. 58; Jonathan Raban, ‘Preview',
Radio Times
, 11 July 1974, 5.

48
. David Hendy,
Life on Air: A History of Radio Four
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), p. 243; D. A. N. Jones, ‘Spokesmen and professionals',
Listener
, 28 October 1976, 551.

49
. Michael Barrett, ‘Enabling communication – a fourth function for television?',
Learning, Media and Technology
, 5, 1 (Spring 1979), 19.

50
. Barrett, ‘Enabling communication', 19; Home Office,
Report of the Committee on the Future of Broadcasting
, p. 293.

51
. Antony Brown,
Tyne Tees Television: The First 20 Years: A Portrait
(Newcastle: Tyne Tees Television, 1978), p. 26.

52
.
A Knight on the Box: 40 Years of Anglia Television
(Norwich: Anglia Television, 1999), p. 67.

53
. Colin Willock, ‘How to land a peak audience',
Observer
, 19 March 1967.

54
. Jimmy Reid, ‘Does the lens put us truly in the picture?',
Glasgow Herald
, 24 January 1981; George Harrison, ‘Foreword', in
I Me Mine
(London: Phoenix, 2004), p. 11.

55
. Brown,
Tyne Tees Television
, p. 48; Home Office,
Report of the Committee on the Future of Broadcasting
, p. 355.

56
. Russell Harty, ‘Shadow across the screen', in Brian Wenham (ed.),
The Third Age of Broadcasting
(London: Faber, 1982), p. 134.

57
. Dave Lane,
Winter Hill Scrapbook
(Knutsford: Dave Lane, 2007), p. 72.

58
. ‘Welsh viewers prefer “Z Cars”',
Guardian
, 1 February 1964; ‘Welsh language TV at peak time attacked',
The Times
, 31 August 1973; ‘Dubbing for roots',
The Economist
, 7 October 1978, 30; Jamie Medhurst,
A History of Independent Television in Wales
(Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2010), p. 172.

59
.
Parkinson
, BBC1, 28 November 1971; John Davies,
Broadcasting and the BBC in Wales
(Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1994), p. 298; Medhurst,
A History of Independent Television in Wales
, pp. 171–2.

60
. Asa Briggs,
The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom, Volume V: Competition 1955–1974
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 949; J. A. R. Pimlott,
The Englishman's Christmas: A Social
History
(Hassocks: Harvester Press, 1978), p. 170; Jonathan Coe,
The Rotters' Club
(London: Penguin, 2002), p. 274.

61
. Paul Dacre, ‘Why I want to cut the comedy',
Daily Express
, 28 December 1973.

62
. John Peel, ‘What's so funny',
Listener
, 7 July 1977, 6; James Thomas, ‘Was it all worth it?',
Daily Express
, 28 December 1977.

63
. Peter Fiddick, ‘BBC steals march on Christmas viewing',
Guardian
, 6 December 1977; ‘Britain's most watched TV' at bfi.org.uk/features/mostwatched/1970s.html (accessed 9 January 2009).