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BL
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996711
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b751081
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Holland, Patricia,1936-
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The angry buzz : : This week and current affairs television /\ Patricia Holland.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: I.B. Tauris ;New York, NY :: In the United States and in Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan,, 2006.
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1 online resource (xxi, 234 pages) :: illustrations
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0857710389
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: 1423787757
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: 9780857710383
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: 9781423787754
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184511051X
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9781845110512
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-226) and index.
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| Contents
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Preface; Acknowledgements; Author's Note; Introduction: Democracy and Public Service Television; 1. More Fun than Panorama: Current Affairs in a Frivolous Medium; 2. The Pilkingtons Take Over; 3. Into the 'Golden Age'?; 4. Moments of Excess; 5. This Week and Northern Ireland, Part 1: Five Long Years; 6. This Week and Northern Ireland, Part 2: More Than We Wanted to Know; 7. Passion or Sensation: Tveye; 8. More Drums: Death and the Rock; Postscript: Next Week: Citizens Still?; References; Index.
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Current affairs television in the UK, in more than half a century of programmes, has set out to tell us something we didn't know, treating its audience as citizens with the right to demand that 'something must be done'. Over their 36 year history, the current affairs series "This Week" and its replacement "TVEye", helped to mark out that democratic project. This is the story of "This Week", one of the few giants of the genre, set within the wider pattern of 'the angry buzz' of inquiry and dissent that is current affairs television. This is a particularly timely ta.
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Television broadcasting of news-- Great Britain.
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Fernsehprogramm
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Media, information communication industries.
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Nachrichtensendung
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PERFORMING ARTS-- Television-- General.
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Television broadcasting of news.
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This week (Television program)
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This week (Television program)
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Great Britain.
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Großbritannien
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| Dewey Classification
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070.1/95
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PN5124.T4H65 2006eb
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| Parallel Title
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This week and current affairs television
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