Armchair Nation (79 page)

Pye
148

Q

quality television
342

Quatermass Experiment, The
102

Question of Sport, A
278
–9

Question Time
253

Quigg, Eoghan
363

Quincy
251

QVC shopping channel
362

R

Raban, Jonathan
214
,
247

Race Relations Board
199

radio licences
84
,
104

Radio Luxembourg
108
,
119

Radio Rediffusion
103

‘radio roof'
29

Radio and Television Retailers' Association
164

Radio Times
5
,
21
,
35
,
38
,
41
,
45
,
46
,
48
,
58
,
66
,
69
,
81
,
84
,
131
,
138
,
147
,
158
,
172
,
174
,
181
,
183
,
187
,
206
,
207
,
214
,
229
,
232
,
236
,
247
,
301
,
318
,
320
,
340
,
361

radio waves
1
,
18
,
27
,
28
,
29
–30,
286
,
369

ultra short
30
,
33

‘battle of the beams'
48

signal ‘passover'
63

graphics
69

travelling over long distances
147
–8

bounced off the surface of the moon
148

‘rain fade'
287
–8

Radiolympia, Olympia exhibition centre, Earls Court, London
31
–2,
47
–8,
209
,
374

RAF Drytree
148

Raffles
220

Raikin, Arkady
161

Ranelagh polo ground, southwest London
37

Rantzen, Esther
253
,
342

ratings
108
–9,
206
,
223
,
232
,
250
,
282
,
295
,
308
,
310
,
355

Rattigan, Terence
116
,
138

Rawhide
114
,
146

Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture
331

Raynor, Henry
184

Ready Steady Cook
321
,
324
,
331

reality TV
310
–11,
337
,
340
,
358
,
359

Reardon, Ray
257

Rediffusion Group
110

Rees, Maureen
310

Rees-Mogg, Lord
305

Reform Club, Pall Mall, London
77

Reid, Jimmy
219

Reilly, the Misses
48

Reiss, Pamela
253

Reith, Lord (John)
54
,
58
,
105
,
146
,
360

Rembrandt
(film)
32

Rembrandt van Rijn
165

remote controls
251
,
273
,
323

Report Swindon
216

Reynolds, Stanley
186
–7

Rhodes, Gary
313
,
315

Rhys Jones, Griff
146

Rich, Roy
125
,
218
–19

Richard, Cliff
233

Richard, Eric
302

Richards, Frank
67

Richardson, Tony
121

Rilke, Rainer Maria
237

Rising Damp
247
,
279

Roberts, Michael Symmons
370

Roberts, Nancy
97

Robertson, Fyfe
62
,
63

Robey, George
23

Robinson, John, Bishop of Woolwich
176

Robinson, Kenneth
159

Robinson, Robert
6
,
8

Robson, Bobby
294

Robson, Eric
317
,
353

Rochdale by-election (1958)
121

Rogers, G.L.
37

Rogers, Roy
107

Romaine, George
127
–8

Romaril, Beryl
51
–2

Romper Room, The
126

Ronson, Mick
212

Root, Jane
351
–2

Rose, Tania
199

Rosemarkie transmitter, Black Isle
131
,
168
,
203

Ross, Alan
307

Ross, Jonathan
211

Rossiter, Leonard
247

Roundabout
7
–8

Roussos, Demis
231

Rowridge transmitter, Isle of Wight
86

Royal Air Force (RAF)
8

Royal Albert Hall, London
190

Royal Family, The
(film)
87

Royal Festival Hall, London
77

Royal Horticultural Society
317

Royal Institution
300

Royal Television Society
361

Royal Ulster Constabulary
75

Royal Variety performance
185

Runrig
354

rural life
350
–4

S

S4C (Sianel Pedwar Cymru)
355
,
356

Sabbath restrictions
106
–7

SABRE (Steerable Adaptive Broadcast Reception Equipment)
202
–3

Sackville-West, Vita
44

Sagan, Carl
371

Sainsbury's stores
314

St Benedict's School, Ealing
93

St Edward's School, Oxford
277

St Hilary transmitter, Vale of Glamorgan
124

St Mary's Hospital, London
111

St Pancras Station, London
160

St Paul's Cathedral, London
29
,
32

Sale of the Century
218
,
223
,
288

Salford University
292

Sallis, Peter
52

Sally the Seal
24

Saltmarshe, Christopher
139

Samaritans
9

Sampson, Anthony
192

Samuel, Raphael
317

Sandy Heath transmitter, Bedfordshire
128

Sapper, Alan
231
–2

Sargent, Sir Malcolm
218

satellite dishes
11
,
287
–91,
296
–7,
326

satellite television
149
,
153
,
236
,
286
–93,
299
,
313
,
319
–20,
325
,
326
,
332
,
345

Saturday Night
197
–8

Saturday Night Story
56

Savalas, Telly
247

Savoy Hotel, London
52

Sayer, Sylvia
83

‘Scanner, the' (television columnist in
Radio Times
)
45

Scarlet Pimpernel, The
105

Schama, Simon
177

scheduling
250
–6,
266
,
308

Science Museum, South Kensington, London
35

Scooby Doo
(cartoon series)
2

Scotland
65
–7,
84
–5,
122
–3,
131
–4,
168
–72,
354
,
356
–8

Scott, Johnny
352

Scott, Peter
112

Scottish Covenant
65

Scottish Home Service
84

Scottish parliament
354

Scottish Television (STV)
122
–3,
127
,
219
,
354
,
356
–7

Sebastiane
(film)
274

Second World War

German invasion of Poland (1939)
47

phoney war
48

television withdrawn
48
–9

German TV broadcasts
48

loss of television sets to bombing
52

seder
(Passover ritual)
373

Seeing and Doing
277

Self, Will
334
–5

Selfridge, Harry
13
,
16

Selfridge's department store, Oxford Street, London
13
–17,
19
,
20
,
43
,
149

Selsdon Committee on Broadcasting
27

Sendak, Maurice:
Where the Wild Things Are
163

Seth-Smith, David
33

Seton, Bruce
96

Sex Pistols
210
–11

Shackleton, Ernest
13
,
14

Shakespeare, William
60
,
82

44th sonnet
14

Julius Caesar
161

King Lear
105
,
309

‘Shakespeare's Sister'
305

Shand, Jimmy
127

Shattered
335

Sheffield Cablevision
216

Shelley, Jim
340

Shelley, Pete
212

Shelter
160

Sheridan, Dinah
42

Sherrin, Ned
157

Shetland
169
,
203
,
289
,
358

shopping channels
313
,
362

Shott, Nicholas
362

Shrew
journal
191

Sight and Sound
316

Sigue Sigue Sputnik
213

Silence of the Sea, The
(play)
52

Silverleaf, Michael
294

Silvester, Victor
99

Silvey, Robert
108

Sims, Monica
2

Singin' in the Rain
187

Siouxsie Sioux (Susan Ballion)
212

Sissinghurst, Kent
43
,
44

Sitwell, Dame Edith
110

Six-Five Special
118

Sky Living
375

Sky News
288
,
362

Sky Sports
293
,
296
–300

Sky television
288
,
289
,
291
,
292
,
332

Skylon, South Bank, London
63
–64,
71

Sloan, Tom
142
–43,
166

Smethurst, William
282

Smith, Chris
351

Smith, Delia
284
,
311

Delia Smith's Christmas
313

Delia's Winter Collection
314
,
315

Smiths, the
305

snooker
256
–62,
291
,
300

Snowdon, Lord
87

So You Think You Want Bigger Boobs?
341

Soft Cell
212

Softly, Softly
302

solar eclipse (1999)
287

Soldier, Soldier
308

Solent TV
362

Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em
194

Songs of Praise
176

Sony
248

Sooty
146

Sopranos, The
342

Southall, west London
202
,
280
,
281

Southern Railway
32

Southern Television
125
–26,
134
,
218
–19

Space Cadets
335

‘Space Oddity'
183
–4

Spake, Jeremy
310

Spanish Civil War
32

Special Report
215

Spencer, Peggy
100

Spender
307

Spender, Stephen
307

Sphere, The
(magazine)
23

Spike
magazine
335

Sportsnight with Coleman
181
,
196

Springwatch
352

Sproat, Iain
202

Staffordshire Polytechnic
277

Stanley, Bob
265

Stanley, Lulu
17

Stapleton, John
288

Star Trek
186

Star TV
345

Stars on Christmas Day
223

Starsky and Hutch
209
–10

Steptoe and Son
114
,
155
,
179
,
221

Stevenson, Ray
183

Stewart, Andy
127

Stiff Records
211

Stock, Francine
358
–9

Stockland Hill, Devon
202

Stockwood, Mervyn, Bishop of Southwark
176

Stoll, Sir Oswald
22

Stoller, Barry
210

Stoppard, Tom
207

Storey, David
121

Storey, Roger
101
–2

Storey, Stanley
38

Stornaway Gazette
168

Stranmillis Embankment, Belfast
7

Strictly Come Dancing
345