Armchair Nation (70 page)

60
. Bob Stanley, ‘The test card: when a girl and a clown ruled the airwaves',
Guardian
, 23 April 2012.

61
. Roger Laughton, ‘Guilt … is watching it before lunch',
Guardian
, 5 January 1987; Taylor and Mullan,
Uninvited Guests
, p. 196.

62
. Gray,
Video Playtime
, pp. 39–40.

63
. Ben Pimlott, ‘One nation, one sickness',
Guardian
, 30 September 1985.

64
. Paul du Noyer,
Liverpool: Wondrous Place: Music from the Cavern to the Capital of Culture
(London: Virgin, 2007), p. 204.

65
. Paul Bonner with Lesley Aston,
Independent Television in Britain, Vol. 5: ITV and the IBA 1981–92
(Houndmills: Macmillan, 1998), p. 135.

66
. Stephen Pile, ‘Stuck on the tube after midnight',
Sunday Times
, 27 September 1987.

67
. Jean Baudrillard,
Cool Memories
(London: Verso, 1990), p. 169; Jean Baudrillard,
America
(London: Verso, 1988), p. 50.

68
. Maurice Blanchot, ‘Everyday speech',
Yale French Studies
, 73 (1987), 13, 20.

69
. Dorothy Hobson,
Channel 4: The Early Years and the Jeremy Isaacs Legacy
(London: I. B. Tauris, 2007), p. 152; Deborah Ross, ‘Richard Whiteley – No taste, no style, no shame. No contest',
Independent
, 15 February 1999.

70
. Johan Huizinga,
Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1955), p. 58; George Orwell, ‘The lion and the unicorn: socialism and the English genius', in
The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, Volume 2: My Country Right or Left 1940–1943
, eds Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970), p. 77.

71
. ‘Richard Whiteley: Your tributes', at news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_ point/4635131.stm (accessed 11 April 2010).

72
. Peter Collett and Roger Lamb,
Watching People Watching Television: Final Report to the I.B.A
. (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, February 1986), p. 1.

73
. Taylor and Mullan,
Uninvited Guests
, p. 182.

74
. Collett and Lamb,
Watching People
, p. 15.

75
. Stuart Hood, ‘As seen in the television lounge in a provincial hotel',
Listener
, 18 May 1972, 663; Will Wyatt, ‘Television beyond the millennium', in Peter Day (ed.),
The Search for Extraterrestrial Life: Essays on Science and Technology from the Royal Institution
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998), p. 107; Ien Ang,
Desperately Seeking the Audience
(London: Routledge, 1991).

76
. Ludovic Kennedy,
On My Way to the Club
(London: Fontana, 1990), pp. 5, 402, 240, 404.

77
. Farrah Anwar, ‘Under the knife',
Guardian
, 20 March 1986; Jonathan Miller, ‘BBC deny sexy TV storm',
The Times
, 2 December 1986; Humphrey Carpenter,
Dennis Potter: The Authorised Biography
(London: Faber, 1998), pp. 455–6.

78
. Kennedy,
On My Way to the Club
, p. 404.

79
. ‘
Broadcast
reviews the various aspects of the BFI's One Day in the Life of Television experiment',
Broadcast
, 25 November 1988, 21; ‘Millions sought for TV survey' (press release), Angus Calder Papers, MOA, SxMOA28/10/5.

80
. Sean Day-Lewis,
One Day in the Life of Television
(London: Grafton/BFI, 1989), pp. 18–22, 63, 53, xv, 133.

81
. Bob Woffinden, ‘One day wonders',
Listener
, 26 October 1989, 26; Day-Lewis,
One Day in the Life
, pp. 134–6.

82
. Day-Lewis,
One Day in the Life
, p. 186, 395; Stephen Pegg, ‘A day in our television life',
Guardian
, 29 May 1989.

83
. Day-Lewis,
One Day in the Life
, p. 216.

84
.
One Day in the Life of Television
, ITV, 1 November 1989; Shyama Perera, ‘TV jilting starts Dartmoor trouble',
Guardian
, 2 October 1986; Day-Lewis,
One Day in the Life
, p. 383.

85
. Day-Lewis,
One Day in the Life
, pp. 298, 324.

86
. ‘Millions sought for TV survey'; Day-Lewis,
One Day in the Life
, p. 377.

87
. Day-Lewis,
One Day in the Life
, p. 191.

88
. Marie Gillespie, ‘Technology and tradition: audio-visual culture among South-Asian families in west London',
Cultural Studies
, 3, 2 (May 1989), 226–8; Marie Gillespie,
Television, Ethnicity and Cultural Change
(London: Routledge, 1995), p. 152.

89
. Joan Bakewell, ‘
Through the Keyhole
',
Listener
, 16 June 1988, 50; George Melly, ‘
Blockbusters
',
Listener
, 28 April 1988, 50; Paul Theroux, ‘
Coronation Street
',
Listener
, 31 March 1988, 50.

90
. Ken Irwin, ‘Pattie's tears for axed soap',
Daily Mirror
, 29 March 1988; Paul Cornell, Martin Day and Keith Topping,
The Guinness Book of Classic British TV
(London: Guinness Publishing, 1983), p. 43.

91
. Simon Garfield,
The Wrestling
(London: Faber and Faber, 1996), p. 145; Alan Tomlinson, ‘Introduction: consumer culture and the aura of the commodity', in Tomlinson (ed.),
Consumption, Identity, & Style: Marketing, Meanings, and the Packaging of Pleasure
(London: Routledge, 1990), pp. 32–4.

92
. Samantha Cook, ‘The elderly: a particularly valuable service', in Janet Willis and Tana Wollen (ed.),
The Neglected Audience
(London: BFI, 1990), pp. 46–7; Taylor and Mullan,
Uninvited Guests
, 29.

93
. Day-Lewis,
One Day in the Life of Television
, p. 387.

1
. Lynda Lee-Potter, ‘I do know passion, but this is no autobiography',
Daily Mail
, 11 June 1990.

2
. W. G. Hoskins,
One Man's England
(London: BBC, 1978), p. 74.

3
. Peter Chippindale and Suzanne Franks,
Dished!: The Rise and Fall of British Satellite Broadcasting
(London: Simon and Schuster, 1991), p. 193.

4
. Chippindale and Franks,
Dished!
, pp. 60, 64.

5
. Michael Watts, ‘Spectrum: a dish for TV gluttons',
The Times
, 18 February 1986.

6
. ‘Mrs Thatcher's bruiser',
Sunday Telegraph
, 7 October 1990.

7
. Charlotte Brunsdon,
Screen Tastes: Soap Opera to Satellite Dishes
(London: Routledge, 1997), p. 159.

8
. Patrick O'Hanlon and Richard Evans, ‘Sky launch boosts sale of dishes',
The Times
, 4 February 1989; Chippindale and Franks,
Dished!
, p. 239; ‘Leading article: dishing the carbuncles',
Guardian
, 14 July 1990.

9
. Chippindale and Franks,
Dished!
, p. 64.

10
. Raymond Fitzwalter,
The Dream that Died: The Rise and Fall of ITV
(Leicester: Matador, 2008), pp. 86–7.

11
. Fitzwalter,
The Dream that Died
, p. 87; Peter Paterson, ‘Weak links in the chain gang',
Daily Mail
, 20 June 1990.

12
. Karl Miller, ‘Diary',
London Review of Books
, 26 July 1990, 21.

13
. Lin Jenkins, ‘Patriotic football fervour collapses at home and on the violent streets',
The Times
, 5 July 1990.

14
. Tom Lutz,
Crying in Public: The Natural and Cultural History of Tears
(New York: Norton, 2001), p. 295; John Moynihan, ‘World Cup passions',
London Review of Books
, 30 August 1990, 2.

15
. Ian Hamilton,
Gazza Italia
(London: Granta, 1994), pp. 63–4; Anthony Giddens, ‘Gazza's goal slump',
Times Higher Education Supplement
, 21 December 1990, 11.

16
. Brian Glanville, ‘Kick-off for the Moloch',
Listener
, 19 December 1974, 835; Jason Cowley,
The Last Game: Love, Death and Football
(London: Pocket Books, 2009), p. 42.

17
. John Fiske and John Hartley,
Reading Television
(London: Routledge, 1989), p. 145.

18
. Martin Amis, ‘The sporting week',
Observer
, 27 August 1978; Martin Amis, ‘Football mad',
London Review of Books
, 3 December 1981, 23.

19
. Richard Lander, ‘Why Sky is over the moon',
Independent
, 11 March 1992.

20
. Jeevan Vasagar and Jon Brodkin, ‘Kenneth Wolstenholme dies at 81',
Guardian
, 27 March 2002.

21
. Nick Hornby,
Fever Pitch: A Fan's Life
(London: Victor Gollancz, 1992), p. 20.

22
. Kingsley Amis to Philip Larkin, 14 October 1985, in
The Letters of Kingsley Amis
, ed. Zachary Leader (London: HarperCollins, 2000), p. 1009.

23
. Philip Larkin to C. B. Cox, 13 January 1981, in
Selected Letters of Philip Larkin 1940–1985
, ed. Anthony Thwaite (London: Faber, 1992), p. 637; Kingsley Amis, ‘Lone voices', in
What Became of Jane Austen?: And Other Questions
(London: Jonathan Cape, 1970), p. 160.

24
. Kingsley Amis, ‘Preview',
Radio Times
, 14 November 1974, 5.

25
. Kingsley Amis, ‘An arts policy?', in
The Amis Collection: Selected Non-Fiction 1954–1990
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991), p. 248; Kingsley Amis, ‘Television and the intellectuals', in
The Amis Collection
, pp. 257–8; Kingsley Amis, ‘Sod the public: a consumer's guide', in
The Amis Collection
, p. 239.

26
. Yvonne Jewkes, ‘The use of media in constructing identities in the masculine environment of men's prisons',
European Journal of Communication
, 17, 2 (June 2002), 220; Duncan Petrie, ‘Critical discourse and the television audience', in Duncan Petrie and Janet Willis (eds),
Television and the Household: Reports from the BFI's Audience Tracking Study
(London: BFI, 1995), p. 105; Zachary Leader,
The Life of Kingsley Amis
(London: Jonathan Cape, 2006), p. 812.

27
. Kingsley Amis, ‘Looking in is looking up',
TV Times
, 7 February 1964, 7.

28
. ‘Coronation Street the home of peasant morons?',
Guardian
, 31 January 1963; Dave Russell,
Looking North: Northern England and the National Imagination
(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004), p. 200; Elizabeth Walton, ‘And many happy Rovers Return',
The Times
, 25 November 1985.

29
. ‘The truth about Coronation Street',
Daily Mirror
, 6 August 1971.

30
. Chris Waters, ‘Representations of everyday life: L. S. Lowry and the landscape of memory in postwar Britain',
Representations
, 65 (Winter 1999), 131; David Bret,
Morrissey: Scandal and Passion
(London: Robson Books, 2004), pp. 7, 65.

31
. Georgina Henry, ‘Top soap washes too white for TV watchdog',
Guardian
, 15 October 1992.

32
. Vera Gottlieb, ‘
Brookside
: “Damon's YTS comes to an end” (Barry Woodward): paradoxes and contradictions', in George W. Brandt (ed.),
British Television Drama in the 1980s
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), p. 53; Nancy Banks-Smith, ‘Feather-brained wedding',
Guardian
, 15 August 2009; Nancy Banks-Smith, ‘Like her or Kuala Lumpur',
Guardian
, 14 November 1996.

33
. Neil Powell,
Amis & Sons: Two Literary Generations
(London: Macmillan, 2008), p. 233; Kingsley Amis,
Difficulties with Girls
(London: Penguin, 1989), p. 266; Kingsley Amis,
The King's English
(London: Penguin, 2011), p. 189; Eric Jacobs,
Kingsley Amis: A Biography
(London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995), p. 15.

34
. Zygmunt Bauman,
Mortality, Immortality and Other Life Strategies
(Cambridge: Polity, 1992), p. 173.

35
. Mark Lawson, ‘Life can be spooky in the fourth person',
Independent
, 14 November 1991; John Sutherland,
Stephen Spender: The Authorized Biography
(London: Viking, 2002), p. 543.

36
. Petrie, ‘Critical discourse and the television audience', p. 106.

37
. Michael Wearing, ‘What about real life, Mr Birt?',
Independent
, 28 August 1998; Thomas Quinn, ‘Wogan hits out at BBC',
Daily Mirror
, 17 November 1999.

38
. Georgina Born,
Uncertain Vision: Birt, Dyke and the Reinvention of the BBC
(London: Secker and Warburg, 2004), p. 287.

39
. Rolf Harris,
My Autobiography: Can You Tell What It is Yet?
(London: Corgi, 2002), p. 359.

40
. Peter Conrad, ‘See no chimps …',
Observer
, 19 October 1997; John Ellis, ‘Scheduling: the last creative act in television?',
Media, Culture and Society
, 22, 1 (January 2000), 32; Gauntlett and Hill,
TV Living
, p. 48.

41
. John Ellis, ‘Documentary and truth on television: the crisis of 1999', in Alan Rosenthal and John Corner (eds),
New Challenges for Documentary
(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005), p. 343.