Broadcasting and the NHS in the Thatcherite 1980s, the challenge to public service, Patricia Holland ; with Hugh Chignell and Sherryl Wilson
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- Public broadcasting -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
- Broadcasting + Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
- Socialism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
- Broadcasting policy -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
- Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1979-1997
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Broadcasting and the NHS in the Thatcherite 1980s, the challenge to public service, Patricia Holland ; with Hugh Chignell and Sherryl Wilson
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eng
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non fiction
Main title
Broadcasting and the NHS in the Thatcherite 1980s
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Patricia Holland ; with Hugh Chignell and Sherryl Wilson
Sub title
the challenge to public service
Summary
"Broadcasting and the NHS in the Thatcherite 1980s takes the two key services, broadcasting and the NHS, and traces the heated debates and political pressures that radically transformed them both. It points to the parallels between them, and describes issues of health, sickness and the provision of medical care as they were reflected in the radio and television output. Across a wide range of programming, from popular drama to investigative journalism, the book captures the mood of the decade as it dissects the politics of the NHS, from the Winter of Discontent to the Aids crisis; and the politics of broadcasting, from the coming of Channel Four to the to the increasing government attacks on the BBC. Concluding in 1990 with two pivotal Acts of Parliament, Patricia Holland traces the roots of the present crisis in public services"--, Provided by publisher
Table of contents
Prologue: Echoes of the 1980s -- Introduction: Thatcherism, the Public and Writing Broadcasting History -- PART I: PROGRAMMES AND CHRONOLOGY 1927 - 1970 -- 1. Myths of Origin: Public Service or the Road to Serfdom? -- PART II: PROGRAMMES AND CHRONOLOGY 1970 - 1980 -- 2. Freedom and the Public: Campaigner, Participant, Consumer -- 3. Broadcasting into the 1980s -- PART III: PROGRAMMES AND CHRONOLOGY 1979 - 1983 -- 4. Restructuring Social Class -- 5. From Needs to Wants: Restructuring Audiences, Restructuring Patients -- 6. Your Life in Whose Hands? Restructuring Professionals -- PART IV: PROGRAMMES AND CHRONOLOGY 1983 - 1987 -- 7. The Third Age and the Fresh Winds of Market Forces: Restructuring Broadcasting -- 8 Griffiths, Peacock and Restructuring Public Service -- 9. Aids and 'the public' at Risk -- PART V: PROGRAMMES AND CHRONOLOGY 1986 - 1990 -- 10. Who's the Casualty? Popular Programmes -- 11. The NHS and Third Term Politics -- 12. 'Quality' and the Broadcasting White Paper -- Postscript: Public Service or Kitemark?
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