Armchair Nation (75 page)

Denton, Charles
240
,
248

Depeche Mode
212

Des Chiffres et des Lettres
270

Desert Song, The
(musical)
44
–5

Desmonde, Jerry
88

Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
249
,
266

Diana, Princess of Wales
323

Dick Barton - Special Agent
(radio programme)
60

Dick Emery Show, The
301

Dickens, Charles
15

Pickwick Papers
304

Dickson, Peter
364

Dickson Wright, Clarissa
352

Did You See?
273

digital recorders
364

digital television
331
,
332
,
333
,
342
–50,
354
–5,
370
,
371

Dimbleby, David
140

Dimbleby, Jonathan
135
–6

Dimbleby, Richard
39
–40,
80
,
135
–6,
140
,
154
,
364

Dinard, Brittany
130

Dinwiddie, Melville
66

Discotheque
368

Disney
48

Dixon, Adele
32

Dixon of Dock Green
158
–9,
185

Do Not Adjust Your Set
368

Doctor Who
203
,
207
–8,
226
,
227
,
345

The Hand of Fear
208

The Idiot's Lantern
71
–2

‘The Seeds of Doom'
208

docusoaps
310
,
331
,
341

Dodd, Ken
199

Doddy for Christmas
181

Doggett, Peter
184

Doonican, Val
187
,
233

Doppler effect
375

Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane, London
289

Dorté, Philip
243

Dotto
114

Double Your Money
109
,
128

‘Down on the Farm'
44

Downton Abbey
177

Dr Finlay's Casebook
162
,
182

Drabble, Margaret
247

Drabble, Phil
254
,
351

Dragnet
110

Drake, Sir Francis
218

Driving School
310

Drysdale, Cliff
165

du Noyer, Paul
267

du Pré, Jacqueline
156
–7

Duchess of Duke Street, The
209

Duchess Theatre, London
116

Dudley Moore trio
182

Duffy
356

duty logs
9
–10,
159

Dyke, Greg
282
,
297

E

Eagle
comics
183

Earls Court, London

Olympia exhibition centre
31

radio show
81
,
150
–1

Earls Court Rangers
61

Early Bird satellite
153
,
154

EastEnders
253
,
272
,
278
,
292
,
305
,
307
,
326

Eastman, Ron
167

Eastwood, Clint
114

eBay
345

Echo and the Bunnymen
212

Economist, The
141

Eden, Anthony
109

Edgar, Barrie
76

Edgerton, David:
The Shock of the Old
343
–4

Edinburgh
123

Edinburgh Castle
66

Edinburgh International Television Festival: McTaggart lecture
127

Edison, Thomas
15

Edmonds, Noel
278

Edmonton, north London
43

Edwards, Huw
370

Edwards, ‘Professor' Jimmy
65
,
66

Eiffel Tower, Paris
48
,
118

Eilbheas
354

Einstein, Albert
15

Eitshal mast, Isle of Lewis
203

Electricity Board
145
,
146
,
147
,
195
,
249
–50,
293

Elgar, Sir Edward
156

Elimidate
341

Eliot, T.S.
4
,
13
,
61
,
92

Elizabeth II, Queen
71
–4,
78
,
79
,
80
,
83
,
86
,
87
,
136
,
152
–53

Christmas broadcast
74
,
222

‘Elizabethan night' (1953)
14
–15

Ellington, Duke
31

Ellis, John
11

Elton, Harry
122

Elvin, George
156

Elwell, Graham
332
–3

Emergency - Ward 10
111
–12,
163
,
330

Emery, Dick
166
,
213
–14

EMI (Electrical and Musical Industries Ltd)
35
,
48
,
216

Emin, Tracey:
My Bed
335

Emitron cameras
53

Emley Moor mast
367
–8,
369

Emmerdale Farm
(later
Emmerdale
)
264
,
280
,
303

Empson, William
117

End the Day
126

Engelbert Humperdinck Show, The
187

Enright, D.J.
207

Equity
226

Eric Barker Half-Hour, The
65

Essex man
289
–90

Eton College
157

Eurovision Song Contest
233

Evans, Chris
371

Evans, Gwynfor
355
,
356

Evans, Harold
120

Evening Standard
260
,
340

Evensong
175
,
176
,
177
,
332

Everest, conquest of (1953)
79

Everton, Clive
260

F

FA Cup Finals
62
,
75
–76,
293
,
295

Fabian of the Yard
96

Face to Face
136
,
137
,
138
,
294
,
337

Fair Isle
203

Falcon Crest
266
–7

Farley, Paul and Roberts, Michael Symmons:
Edgelands
370

Farming Diary
124

Farming Outlook
219

Fawlty Towers
200
,
228
,
279
,
337

Feis folk festival
354

Feltz, Vanessa
322

Ferret Theatre Company, The
362

Ferryside, Carmarthen Bay
346

Festival of Britain (1951)
63
–4

Fiddick, Peter
248
,
257

Fields, Gracie
18
–19,
86

Financial Times
index
280

Finnigan, Judy
276

Finsbury Park, north London
42

Fireman Sam
355

Firth, Raymond
338

Fisher, Geoffrey, Archbishop of

Canterbury
74
,
78
,
80

fishing
125
,
167
,
219

Fiske, John and Hartley, John:
Reading Television
296

Five Revolutionary Painters
110

Fletcher, Cyril
41

Floyd, Keith
315

‘fly-on-the-wall' documentaries
87

Flynn, Errol
274

focus groups
308
–9,
311

Fonteyn, Margot
82

Food and Drink
312
,
313

foot-and-mouth outbreak (2001)
349
,
350

football
3
,
53
,
62
,
75
–6,
85
,
168
,
176
,
206
–7,
293
–300,
332
,
346
,
357
,
372

Football Focus
296

Football League
299

Foreign Press Club
109

Forman, Denis
120
,
121
,
122

Forsyte Saga, The
174
–77

Forsyth, Bruce
9
,
43
,
208
–9,
252

Forsyth, Frederick
257
–8

Fowlis, Julie
354

Fox, Avril
8

Free Church of Scotland
169
,
170
,
360

Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland
169

Freeman, John
136
–8

Freeview
345

French TV
130
,
202
,
268

Frith, Simon
211

Frost, David
156
,
173
,
182

Fry, Michael
357

Fry, Stephen
332

Futbol Mundial
362

Fuzzy Lines
newsletter
325

G

Gadael Lenin
(
Leaving Lenin
) (film)
356

Gaelic music revival
354

Gaelic Television Fund
357

Gahan, Dave
212

Gailly, Étienne
54

Gallows Glorious
(play)
42

Galsworthy, John
174

Games, Abram
26

Games, Marcus
26

Gander, L. Marsland
33
–5,
39

Ganley, Len
267

Gardel, Carlos
19

Garden, The
(journal)
317

Gardeners' Question Time
317

Gardeners' World
167
,
317
,
318

gardening
44
,
117
,
167
,
317
–19,
321
,
353

Gardening Club
167

Garnett, Tony
331

Garnham, Nicholas
166

Gascoigne, Paul
293
,
294
,
297
,
337

Gates, Gareth
358

Gaumont cinema, Manchester
78

Gay News
213
,
214

general elections
114
,
135
,
196
,
205
,
346
,
359
,
361

General Electric Company
35

General Hospital
288

General Household Survey
202

Generation Game, The
208
–9,
252
,
301

George, Charlie
295

George VI, King
36
,
73

ghosting
15
,
150

Giddens, Anthony
294

Giggleswick School, north Yorkshire
122

Gilbert, Joan
55
,
73

Gill, A.A.
5

Gillespie, Marie
280

‘Girls in Grey' (wartime march)
55

Give Us a Clue
267

Glanville, Brian
295

Glasgow
123

Glasgow Herald
66
,
90
,
123

Glencairn Hill transmitter, Belfast
74
–5

Glendenning, Raymond
258

Glengorm mast, Isle of Mull
326

Going for Gold
361

‘Goldilocks zone'
375

golf
166

Gone Fishing
125

Good Food
magazine
313

Good Food Guide
311

Good Housekeeping
magazine
13

Good Life, The
229
,
246

Good Morning Britain
264

Goodies, The
200
,
247

Goody, Jade
328

Goon Show, The
84

Goonhilly Earth Station, Cornwall
148
–51,
285
–7

Goonhilly Tea Rooms (previously Telstar Café)
286

Gordon, Noele
240
,
242
–3,
245

Gorer, Geoffrey
111
,
117
,
141
–2

Exploring English Character
112

Grade, Lew
107
,
242
,
243
,
251
,
330

Grade, Michael
251
–6,
278

Grampian Television
205
–6,
218
,
219
,
220
,
369

Granada Reports
349

Granada Sky Food & Wine Channel
320

Granada Studios Tour, Deansgate, Manchester
305

Granada Television
110
,
120
–2,
193
,
217
,
292
,
304
,
339
,
363
,
372