Armchair Nation (71 page)

42
. Joan Bakewell, ‘Delia Smith, BBC2',
The Times
, 15 March 1980; John Ezard, ‘Delia finds the recipe for long-lasting fame',
Guardian
, 3 December 2001.

43
. ‘Postgate calling',
TV Mirror
, 2 January 1954, 22.

44
. ‘The empty lobster pots',
Financial Times
, 8 August 1962; ‘New taste for scampi brings Scots fishing prosperity',
The Times
, 6 August 1962; Alan Davidson,
The Oxford Companion to Food
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), p. 789; Alison Bowyer,
Delia Smith: The Biography
(London: André Deutsch, 1999), p. 90.

45
. Emily Green, ‘First, catch your bandwagon',
Independent on Sunday
, 10 November 1996; Cathy Newman, ‘Celebrity endorsement proves recipe for success',
Financial Times
, 23 November 1998.

46
. Bob Chaundy, ‘Obituary: Colin McIntyre',
Guardian
, 12 June 2012.

47
. Bowyer,
Delia Smith
, pp. 153–4.

48
. Bowyer,
Delia Smith
, p. 174.

49
. Charles Leadbeater, ‘Delianomics',
Mail on Sunday
, 12 December 1999; Charles Leadbeater,
Living on Thin Air: The New Economy
(London: Penguin, 1999), pp. 28–30.

50
. Bowyer,
Delia Smith
, pp. 189, 174; Green, ‘First, catch your bandwagon'.

51
. Eric Griffiths, ‘Hegel's winter collection',
Times Literary Supplement
, 8 March 1996, 20–21.

52
. Alan Warde and Lydia Martens,
Eating Out: Social Differentiation, Consumption and Pleasure
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 58–61.

53
. Bowyer,
Delia Smith
, p. 161.

54
. Andy Medhurst, ‘Day for night',
Sight and Sound
, 26, 6 (June 1999), 27.

55
. Jewkes, ‘The use of media in constructing identities', 215; Deborah Cohen,
Household Gods: The British and their Possessions
(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 207.

56
. Hilary Kingsley and Geoff Tibballs,
Box of Delights: The Golden Years of Television
(London: Macmillan, 1989), p. 36; Raphael Samuel,
Theatres of Memory, Volume 1: Past and Present in Contemporary Culture
(London: Verso, 1994), p. 72.

57
. Michael Leapman, ‘The Mel Gibson of the potting shed meets his mulcher',
Independent
, 21 September 1997; Sue Arnold, ‘These days you can't see the trees for the wood',
Independent
, 10 April 2004; Eric Robson, ‘Why I loathe TV garden makeovers',
Daily Mail
, 10
April 2004; Alan Titchmarsh,
Knave of Spades: Growing Pains of a Gardener
(London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2010), p. 274.

58
. Titchmarsh,
Knave of Spades
, p. 273.

59
. Gay Search,
Gardeners' World Through the Years
(London: Carlton Books, 2006), pp. 65–6.

60
. Charles Leadbeater,
Up the Down Escalator: Why the Global Pessimists are Wrong
(London: Viking, 2002), pp. 65–6.

61
. Medhurst, ‘Day for night', p. 26.

62
. Justine Picardie, ‘Dale Winton, the king of the aisles',
Independent
, 8 January 1995; Polly Toynbee, ‘Most daytime TV is a tepid dishwater soup',
Radio Times
, 11–17 May 1996, 14.

63
. Letters,
Radio Times
, 1–7 June 1996, 119; Gauntlett and Hill,
TV Living
, pp. 245, 288, 222–3.

64
. Janet Willis, ‘Staying in touch: television and the over-seventies', in Petrie and Willis (eds),
Television and the Household
, p. 38; Gauntlett and Hill,
TV Living
, pp. 107–8; Auberon Waugh, ‘Creating new jobs',
Daily Telegraph
, 8 February 1997.

65
. George Mackay Brown,
The First Wash of Spring
(London: Steve Savage, 2006), pp. 240–42.

66
. Gerard Gilbert, ‘Make your own entertainment',
Independent
, 20 April 1998.

67
. Peter Hitchens,
The Abolition of Britain
(London: Quartet, 2000), pp. 142, 146; Peter Hitchens,
Monday Morning Blues
(London: Quartet, 2000), pp. 49–50.

68
. Oliver James,
Britain on the Couch: Treating the Low Serotonin Society
(London: Arrow, 1998), p. 29; Oliver James, ‘It keeps them quiet now but …',
Observer
, 29 November 1998.

69
. Winifred Holtby,
Anderby Wold
(London: Virago, 1981), p. 239.

70
. Mark Rowe, ‘Eighteen months of TV ends in a flash',
Independent on Sunday
, 23 May 1999.

71
. Sean Day-Lewis, ‘Langham Diary',
Listener
, 8 December 1983, 20.

72
. Alexandra Frean, ‘Viewers have no right to watch TV, say law lords',
The Times
, 25 April 1997.

1
. Robert Hughes,
The Shock of the New
(London: Thames and Hudson, 1991), p. 345.

2
. Dennis Potter,
Seeing the Blossom: Two Interviews and a Lecture
(London: Faber, 1994), p. 55; Dennis Potter, ‘Hurrah for the gogglebox',
Daily Herald
, 31 August 1962.

3
. Humphrey Carpenter,
Dennis Potter: The Authorised Biography
(London: Faber, 1998), p. 123.

4
. Carpenter,
Dennis Potter
, p. 133; Lewis Chester,
All My Shows Are Great: The Life of Lew Grade
(London, Aurum, 2010), p. 94.

5
.
Arena
, BBC2, 30 January 1987.

6
. Dennis Potter, ‘Some sort of preface …', in
Blue Remembered Hills and Other Plays
(London: Faber and Faber, 1986), pp. 28–9.

7
. W. Stephen Gilbert,
Fight and Kick and Bite: The Life and Work of Dennis Potter
(London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995), pp. 44–5; Potter,
Seeing the Blossom
, pp. 52–4.

8
. Tony Garnett, ‘Notes for the Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture',
Critical Quarterly
, 40, 3 (October 1998), 33–4; Chris Barrie, ‘Pay TV warning for “all live sport and top shows”',
Guardian
, 6 November 1998.

9
. Peter Bazalgette, ‘Golden age? This is it',
Guardian
, 19 November 2001; Peter Bazalgette, ‘TV totalitarianism is dead. Power to the digital people!',
Observer
, 30 November 2003.

10
. Chris Tarrant,
Millionaire Moments
(London: Time Warner, 2002), p. 6; Mike Wayne, ‘
Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?
Contextual analysis and the endgame of public service television', in Dan Fleming (ed.),
Formations: A 21st Century Media Studies Textbook
(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000), pp. 209–10.

11
. Cosmo Landesman, ‘Not so much Big Brother as the little exhibitionists',
Sunday Times
, 23 July 2000; Will Self, ‘It's National Service for navel-gazers',
Independent
, 20 August 2000.

12
. J. G. Ballard, ‘Thirteen to Centaurus', in Ballard,
The Complete Short Stories: Volume 1
(London: Harper Perennial, 2006), p. 447; J.G. Ballard,
The Day of Creation
(New York: Liveright, 2012), p. 64.

13
. John Baxter,
The Inner Man: The Life of J. G. Ballard
(London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2011), pp. 306–7.

14
. Charles Darwin,
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
, ed. Francis Darwin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 154, 175.

15
. Christopher Dunkley, ‘That's enough of the navel-gazing',
Financial Times
, 23 August 2000, 16.

16
. Laurie Taylor and Bob Mullan,
Uninvited Guests: The Intimate Secrets of Television and Radio
(London: Chatto and Windus, 1986), p. 62.

17
. Ferdinand Mount,
Full Circle: How the Classical World Came Back to Us
(London: Simon and Schuster, 2010), p. 206; see also Brett Mills, ‘Television wildlife documentaries and animals' right to privacy',
Continuum
, 24, 2 (April 2010), 193–202.

18
. David Attenborough,
Life on Air: Memoirs of a Broadcaster
(London: BBC, 2002), pp. 187–8; Elaine Morgan, ‘The greatest story ever told',
Radio Times
, 13–19 January 1979, 77.

19
. Desmond Morris, ‘The day of reckoning',
Guardian
, 15 September 2000.

20
. ‘Active life for zoo animals',
New Scientist
, 29 June 1961, 773; Desmond Morris,
Watching: Encounters with Humans and Other Animals
(London: Little Books, 2006), pp. 171–2.

21
. Desmond Morris, ‘Oh, Brother!',
Daily Mail
, 31 May 2005; Desmond Morris, ‘Rumbled in the jungle',
Daily Telegraph
, 18 November 2006; Jenny Johnson, ‘Nicest man on the planet?',
Daily Mail
, 31 May 2006.

22
. Charlie Brooker,
Screen Burn
(London: Faber and Faber, 2005), pp. 17, 276–7.

23
. James Harding, ‘Davies has a bad week at the office',
Financial Times
, 16 March 2002; Ben Walters,
The Office
(London: BFI, 2005), pp. 40, 45.

24
. Graham McCann, ‘You never had it so good or so funny',
Financial Times
, 13 November 2002.

25
. Steven Johnson,
Everything Bad is Good For You: Why Popular Culture is Making Us Smarter
(London: Penguin, 2006), pp. 65–6; Clive James, ‘Fantasy in the West Wing', in
The Meaning of Recognition: New Essays 2001–2005
(London: Picador, 2006), p. 32.

26
. Richard Hoggart,
An Imagined Life: Life and Times, Volume 3: 1959–91
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), p. 26.

27
. Richard Hoggart, ‘Dumb and dumber',
Guardian
, 14 March 2002.

28
. David Edgerton,
The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900
(London: Profile, 2006), p. xii; John Seely Brown
and Paul Duguid,
The Social Life of Information
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2002), p. 16.

29
. Urmee Khan, ‘Nearly 30,000 homes in the UK still have black-and-white TVs',
Daily Telegraph
, 14 November 2009; Chris Mullin,
Decline & Fall: Diaries 2005–2010
(London: Profile, 2011), p. 334.

30
. Department for Culture, Media and Sport,
A Public Service for All: The BBC in the Digital Age
(London: The Stationery Office, 2006), p. 16.

31
. Paul Smith, ‘The politics of television policy: The case of digital switchover in the United Kingdom',
International Journal of Digital Television
, 2, 1 (January 2011), 42; Department for Culture,
A Public Service for All
, p. 4.

32
. Emily Dugan, ‘Cumbrian town paves the way for television's big switchover to digital',
Independent
, 16 October 2007.

33
. A. J. Pollard, ‘Introduction', in Christian D. Liddy and Richard H. Britnell (eds),
North-East England in the Later Middle Ages
(Woodbridge: Boydell, 2005), p. 3.

34
. Geoff Phillips,
Memories of Tyne Tees Television
(Durham: GP Electronic Services, 1998), p. 51.

35
. Craig Taylor,
Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now – As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It and Long for It
(London: Granta, 2011), p. 255.

36
. ‘One Man quits, fed up with sheepdogs',
Daily Mail
, 27 September 1993; Anne Evans, ‘Minister backs sheepdog show',
Observer
, 21 February 1999; Anne Evans and Peter Hooley, ‘Smith cultivates dropped collies',
Observer
, 21 February 1999; Robin Page, ‘Come bye and see us – sheep are back on TV',
Mail on Sunday
, 9 December 2007; Julia Stuart, ‘One Man and His Dog',
Independent
, 24 March 2001.

37
. Hansard, HL Deb, 12 March 2001, vol. 623, col. 539.

38
. Louise Gray, ‘Adam Henson receives death threats over badger cull',
Daily Telegraph
, 9 May 2011.

39
. Rob Young,
Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music
(London: Faber, 2010), p. 410; Peter Hall,
Diaries
, ed. John Goodwin (London: Oberon, 2000), p. 154.

40
. Dennis Potter,
The Changing Forest: Life in the Forest of Dean Today
(London: Minerva, 1996), p. 2.

41
. Craig Taylor,
Return to Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village in the 21st Century
(London: Granta, 2007), pp. 227, 112.

42
. Eric Robson,
The Border Line
(London: Frances Lincoln, 2006), p. 61.

43
. Rhys Evans,
Gwynfor Evans: A Portrait of a Patriot
(Tal-y-bont: Y Lolfa, 2008), pp. 407, 413, 428.

44
. Jamie Medhurst,
A History of Independent Television in Wales
(Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2010), p. 175; Evans,
Gwynfor Evans
, p. 428.

45
. John Caughie, ‘Scottish television: what would it look like?', in Colin McArthur (ed.),
Scotch Reels: Scotland in Cinema and Television
(London: BFI, 1982), p. 120; Duncan Petrie, ‘Television in Scotland: audience and cultural identity', in Duncan Petrie and Janet Willis (eds),
Television and the Household: Reports from the BFI's Audience Tracking Study
(London: BFI, 1995), p. 87; Wilson McLeod, ‘Gaelic in the New Scotland: politics, rhetoric and public discourse',
Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues
, 2, 2 (Summer 2001), 11–12.