Armchair Nation (74 page)

Bunyan, Vashti
170

Burgess, Anthony
19
,
20
–22,
27
,
163

Buried Treasure
97
–8

Burke, David
322
,
323

Burke, James
183

Burn, Gordon
259

Burnett, Hugh
137

Burnley riots (2001)
344

Burns and Allen Show
86

Burton-on-Trent Archery Club
110

Bushell, Miss Sydney M.
17

Butlin's holiday camps
77

Buzzcocks, the
212

Byatt, A.S.
259

Bygraves, Max
84

C

cable radio
110

cable television
215
,
216
,
236
,
289
,
319
–20,
326
,
332
,
345

Café Continental
68
–9,
107

Cainnt Cultural Services
357

Caldwell, Henry
68

Calendar
271

Callaghan, James
360

Callisthenes (Selfridge's column in
The Times
)
14

Cambridge Air Force Base, Massachusetts
148

camera obscura
32
,
36

Cameron, David
361
,
362

Campaign for Quality Television
342

Campion, Gerald
67

Canary Wharf tower, London
326

Capri
18
,
19

Caradon transmitter
265

Cardus, Neville
76

Carleton Greene, Hugh
159

Carlton
307

Carlton Food Network
320

Carnane, Isle of Man
84

Cassandra (of
Daily Mirror
)
73

Castle, Barbara
352

Castle, Roy
277

Catatonia
356

catch-up sites
347
,
364

cathode ray tubes
52
,
62
,
141
,
203
,
322
,
370
,
375

Cathy Come Home
160

Catweazle
4

Caughie, John
356

Cawston, Richard
87

Ceefax
266
,
312
–13,
327
,
372

Celebrity Wife Swap
341

Cenotaph, London: two minutes' silence (1937)
38

Central Television
240
,
269

Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham
162
,
242

Cercle des Amis de Channel
130

Chamberlain, Neville
39

Changing Rooms
316
,
317
,
325
,
331

Channel 4
249
,
258
,
266
,
270
,
274
,
278
,
282
,
292
,
305
,
334
,
335
,
336
,
346
,
351

Channel 5
333
,
346

Channel Islands
202
–3

Channel Television
130

Chaplin, Charlie
64
,
80

Charles, HRH The Prince of Wales
78
,
191
,
323

investiture
87
,
181

Charlie Chester Show
96

Charlie's Angels
237

Charlton, ‘Steady' Eddie
259
,
260

‘Charming Belles in Harmony'
23

Charsfield, Suffolk
177
–8

Chataway, Christopher
1
–2

Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
41

Chekhov, Anton
343

Chelsea at Nine
122

Chelsea Palace, King's Road, London
122

Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil, The
(play)
205

Chicago Cubs
151

Children's Hour
(radio programme)
42
,
46

Children's Hour
(television programme)
146

children's TV
2
,
80
,
241

Christie, Agatha:
The Mousetrap
225

Christmas Night with the Stars
181

Church Times
177

churchgoing
175
–7

Churchill, Sir Winston
48
,
74
,
78

Churchill, Winston
274

Cider with Rosie
205

cinemas
115
,
116
,
202
,
204
–5,
237
,
272

City Lights
(film)
64

Civilisation
110
,
230
,
320
,
332

Clangers
185

Clare of Assisi
14

Clarissa and the Countryman
351
–2

Clark, Kenneth
110
,
125
,
230
,
332

Clark, Petula
173
,
187

Clarke, Arthur C.
153

Clarke, Nick
76

Shadow of a Nation
72

Clarke Belt
153

‘Clean Up TV' campaign
158
–61,
175
–6

Cleese, John
200

climbing
171
–3,
190

‘clipboard queens'
108

Coalisland, Tyrone
260
,
261

Cobbett, William
121

Cock, Gerald
36
,
41
–2,
46
,
47

Cock of the Border
126

Coe, Jonathan:
The Rotters' Club
222

Cold Feet
371

Cold War
74
,
287

Coldwell, Pattie
281

Coleman, David
278
–9,
298

Colin's Sandwich
279

Collett, Peter
271
–2,
273

Collins, Norman
59
–61

London Belongs to Me
59
–60

‘Colour Comes to Town' exhibition
184
–5

colour TV
2
,
87
,
162
–7,
184
–87,
193
–4,
202
–3,
206
,
217
,
233
,
248
,
256
,
257
,
261
,
265
,
296
,
304
,
323
,
344
,
361

Come Dancing
296

comedy
198
–202

commercials
105
–6,
108
,
147
,
205
–6,
223
,
233
,
243
,
282
,
333
,
345

Commission for Racial Equality
221

Committee on Broadcasting Coverage
221

community television
215
–17

Compact
21

Compton Potters' Arts Guild, Surrey
96

Conrad, Pete
185

Conrad, Peter
309

Conservative Party
68
,
249
,
289

Consider the Oracle
(film)
102

Conwell, Nula
303

Cook, Peter
224

cookery programmes
311
–16,
321

Cooper, Derek
247
–8

Corbett, Ronnie
185
,
209

Cordet, Hélène
69

Coren, Alan
237

Coronation

1937
36
–7

1953
69
,
71
,
72
–87,
115
,
129
,
130
,
136
,
323
,
346

Coronation Commission
73
,
74

Coronation Street
71
,
122
,
125
,
128
,
130
,
142
,
145
,
193
,
235
,
239
,
240
,
246
,
281
,
292
,
302
,
303
–7,
354
,
360
,
368
,
369
,
372
,
374

Coronation Street
bug
346
,
347
,
371

cosmic microwave background radiation
375

Cosmo Group against censorship
8

Cosmos
371

Costello, Elvis
211

Cotton, Bill
206
,
208

Cotton, Billy
99

Council for the Protection of Rural England
290

Countdown
234
,
270
–1

Countryfile
352

Countryside Alliance
351

Couper Institute, Cathcart
67

Coward, Noel
51
,
116
,
276

Hay Fever
45

Cowell, Elizabeth
46
,
47
–8

Cowell, Simon
359

Cowgill, Bryan
206

Cowley, Jason
295

Cox, Professor Brian
301
,
371

Crackerjack
254

Cradock, Fanny
140
,
203
,
312

Craig, Douglas
94

Craig, Wendy
187

Crew, Pete
172

Crichton Smith, Iain
170

cricket
53
,
76
,
85
,
262
,
296
–7,
300

Cripps, Stafford
55

Crisp, Quentin
213

Croft, David
199
,
200
,
201

Crosland, Anthony:
The Future of Socialism
113

Crossroads
239
–46,
248
,
272
,
276
,
280
,
281
–2

Crown Court
264

Croydon Airport, South London
32

Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
257

Crystal Palace, Sydenham Hill, London

Baird's mast
30

new mast (opened 1956)
134
,
150
,
215

switchover (2012)
371
–2

Culpitt, David Henry: ‘This enlightened age'
124

Curtis, Adam
365

Cushing, Peter
100
–1

D

Dad's Army
86
,
179
,
199
,
200
–1,
226

Dagenham, Essex
115

Daily Express
6
,
27
–8,
38
–9,
64
,
80
,
100
,
139
,
199

Television Exhibition (1937)
39

Daily Herald
77
,
91
,
329
–30

Daily Mail
20
,
31
,
97

Daily Mirror
35
,
73
,
111
,
239
,
240
,
241
,
251

Daily Record
363

Daily Sketch
136

Daily Star
240
,
282

Daily Telegraph
28
,
33
,
344
,
351

Dallas
235
–6,
238
–9,
243
,
255
–6

‘
Dallas
effect'
239
,
253

Dalmaine, Cyril Carr (Jonah Barrington)
38
–9

Danahar, Arthur
40
–1

Dangermouse
282

Daniel, Glyn
97
,
98

Dartmoor Preservation Society
83

Dartmoor Prison
278

Darwin, Charles
336

David, Elizabeth
311
,
314
–15

Davies, Bernard
177

Davies, Dickie
3
,
223

Davies, Gavyn
341

Davies, Pete:
The Last Election
24

Davis, Steve
260
,
261

‘Dawn University'
181

Dawson, Les
223
,
247

Day, Frances
88

Day, Robin
253

Day to Day
276

Dayan, Daniel
373

daytime television
106
,
267
,
271
,
282
,
320
–1,
324

de Mol, John
339

deaf viewers
2
,
35
,
211
,
312

Deansgate studios, Manchester
304
,
305

Degville, Martin
213

Delaney, Shelagh
121
,
304

Delia effect
314

Delia's Winter Collection
313
,
314

‘demand forecasters'
147