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Broadcasting and the NHS in the Thatcherite 1980s

The Challenge to Public Service

  • Authors
  • Patricia Holland
  • Hugh Chignell
  • Sherryl Wilson
Book

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction
      Patricia Holland, Hugh Chignell, Sherryl Wilson
      Pages 1-17

  3. Chronology and Programmes: 1927–1970

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 18-18
      PDF
    2. Myths of Origin
      Patricia Holland, Hugh Chignell, Sherryl Wilson
      Pages 19-35

  4. Chronology and Programmes: 1970–1980

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 36-36
      PDF
    2. Freedom and the Public
      Patricia Holland, Hugh Chignell, Sherryl Wilson
      Pages 37-49
    3. Broadcasting into the 1980s
      Patricia Holland, Hugh Chignell, Sherryl Wilson
      Pages 50-66

  5. Chronology and Programmes: 1979–1983

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 67-68
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    2. Restructuring Social Class
      Patricia Holland, Hugh Chignell, Sherryl Wilson
      Pages 69-81
    3. From Needs to Wants
      Patricia Holland, Hugh Chignell, Sherryl Wilson
      Pages 82-99
    4. Your Life in Whose Hands? Restructuring Professionals
      Patricia Holland, Hugh Chignell, Sherryl Wilson
      Pages 100-117

  6. Chronology and Programmes: 1983–1987

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 118-119
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    2. The Third Age and the Fresh Winds of Market Forces
      Patricia Holland, Hugh Chignell, Sherryl Wilson
      Pages 120-135
    3. Griffiths, Peacock and Restructuring Public Service
      Patricia Holland, Hugh Chignell, Sherryl Wilson
      Pages 136-153
    4. AIDS and ‘the Public’ at Risk
      Patricia Holland, Hugh Chignell, Sherryl Wilson
      Pages 154-166

  7. Chronology and Programmes: 1986–1990

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 167-168
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    2. Who’s the Casualty? Popular Programmes
      Patricia Holland, Hugh Chignell, Sherryl Wilson
      Pages 169-184
    3. The NHS and Third-Term Politics
      Patricia Holland, Hugh Chignell, Sherryl Wilson
      Pages 185-199
    4. ‘Quality’ and the Broadcasting White Paper
      Patricia Holland, Hugh Chignell, Sherryl Wilson
      Pages 200-213

  8. Concluding Comments

    1. Concluding Comments
      Patricia Holland, Hugh Chignell, Sherryl Wilson
      Pages 214-219
  9. Back Matter
    Pages 220-237
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About this book

Introduction

Patricia Holland offers a fascinating study of the ways in which changes to public services, and shifts in the concept of 'the public' under Margaret Thatcher's three Conservative governments, were mediated by radio and television in the 1980s.

Keywords

broadcasting government politics radio television

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