The BBC and popular television culture in the 1950s
by
Su Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Entertaining television challenges the idea that the BBC in the 1950s was elitist and ‘staid’, upholding Reithian values in a paternalistic, even patronising way. By focusing on a number of (often controversial) programme case studies – such as the soap opera, the quiz/ game show, the ‘problem’...