Introduction: Television as Heritage

Abstract

The introduction begins by explaining the rationale for this book. That is, a need for an engagement with voices of producers, below-the-line television workers and the voices of a community whose cultural heritage incorporates television history. The voices of fans who remember programmes and interactions, voices of audiences who seek to remember their television history and the memories of extras who worked on location and remain in the region will be explained as a vital multi-perspectival approach to media history. In short the introduction makes the case for television as heritage.