Armchair Nation (73 page)

Auguste, Père
68

Augustine, St
14

Austin, Bunny
37

Avedon, Richard
162

Avengers, The
157
,
303
,
368

Ayer, A.J.
296

Ayres, Pam
102

B

Bacon, Cecil W.
69

Baggott, Jean
103

Baily, J.T.
33

Baily, Kenneth
31

Baird, Iain Logie
52

Baird, John Logie
65
,
300
,
333

demonstrates his invention at Selfridge's
13
–14,
15
,
16

‘Televisors'
16
,
17
–18,
20
,
21
,
29

Long Acre studio
17
,
22
,
23

BBC's first scheduled television programme
17
–18

giant television set at London Coliseum
12
,
22
–3,
24

mast at Crystal Palace
30

Baker, Richard
87

Baker, Shirley
304

Baker, Tom
207
,
208

Bakewell, Joan
79
,
163
,
165
,
281
,
311

Ballard, Bea
179

Ballard, J.G.
178
–80,
335
–6,
359

The Day of Creation
335

‘Escapement'
179

‘The Greatest Television Show on

Earth'
179

‘Manhole
69
'
335

‘Thirteen to Centaurus'
335

ballet
24
,
46
,
64
,
85
,
103

ballroom dancing
99
–100

Balmoral Castle
86
,
87

‘Ban Welsh Telly' group
221

Banks-Smith, Nancy
237
,
306

Bannister, Roger
171

Barber, Anthony
193
,
194

Barker, Eric
65

Barker, Ronnie
199
,
209

Barkley, William
6

Barnes, George
131

Barnes, Julian
281

Barnett, Angela
183

Barnett, Lady Isobel
90

Barnett, John
159

Barry, Michael
35
–6,
313

Barthes, Roland
3
–4

Barton, Jack
240
,
246

Basil Brush Show, The
207

Bateman, Nick
334
,
337

Bates, Michael
201

Bath: Octagon
215

Batman
268

Baudrillard, Jean
268
–9,
272

Bauman, Zygmunt
306

Baverstock, Donald
155

Baxter, Raymond
149

Bazalgette, Peter
312
,
313
,
331
–2,
339
,
359

BBC Alba
354
,
355
,
357
–8

BBC archives
25
,
26

BBC Belfast
197

BBC Broadcasting Research

Department
253
,
308

Daily Life in the 1980s
253
–4

BBC Club
214

BBC Good Food show, Birmingham

National Exhibition Centre
313

BBC Handbook
48
–9,
250

BBC Home Service
66
,
84
,
128

BBC iPlayer
364

BBC library sound effects
68

BBC Light Programme
60
,
84
,
85

BBC Midlands
348

BBC Natural History Unit
166

BBC Northern Ireland
198

BBC Radio 1
248

BBC Radio 2
236
,
264

BBC Radio 4
264

BBC Radio Leicester
196

BBC Radio London
196

BBC Scotland
197

BBC Symphony Orchestra
21

BBC Television Centre, White City, London
10
,
164
,
351

BBC Wales
197

BBC Yearbook
51

BBC-3
6

BBC1

end of rationing of broadcasting hours
2

globe ident
180
,
187
,
190

colour television
184
,
187

a classic Saturday night
206
–10

new daytime service (1986)
266

BBC2

launch of
161
,
225
–6

colour television
163
,
164
,
166
,
167

unions resist plan to start BBC2

earlier
228

BBC4
343

Beach Head
184

Beadle's About
321

Beatles, the
16
,
154
,
173
,
190
,
227
,
298
,
361

Behan, Brendan
7

Belfast
74
,
75
,
85
,
126
,
128
,
197
,
198

Bell, Julian
43

Bellamy's Britain
301

Belmont transmitter, Lincolnshire
129
,
217

Benn, Tony
360

Bennett, Alan
78

Bennett, Cyril
255

Benny Hill Show, The
223

Bentine, Michael
118
,
339

Bentley, Marcus
334

Bergson, Henri
198
,
225

Bernstein, Sidney
120
,
121
,
122
,
217

Best, George
85

Betamax
248

Betjeman, John
113
,
160
,
304

Between the Lines
158

Beveridge, Lord
112
–13

Beverley Sisters
84

Bevins, Reginald
150

Biafran War
174

Bickle, H.M.
56

Big Brother
271
,
328
,
333
–40

Big Chief I-Spy
2

Big Match, The
296

Big Society
362

Bill, The
278
,
302
–3,
307
,
309

Billington, Michael
154

Billy Bunter
67
–8

Bilsdale transmitter, North Yorkshire Moors
217

Birkett, Lord
138

Birkinshaw, Douglas
33

Birmingham
58
,
61
,
62
,
158
,
242
,
243
,
244
,
256
,
361

Birmingham, Alabama
243
,
361

Birmingham Evening Mail
282

Birt, John
25
,
308
,
331

Black, Cilla
182
,
186

Black, George
124

Black, Peter
97
,
166
,
236

Black and White Minstrel Show
135
,
166
,
182
,
365

Black Hill transmitter, North Lanarkshire
123

Black Mountain transmitter, Northern Ireland
129

Blackburn, Lancashire
64
,
220

Blackburn, Tony
248

Blackman, Honor
157

Blackpool FC
75
–6

Blackwell, Nigel
267

Blackwood, Algernon
56
–7,
73

Blair, Lionel
267

Blair, Tony
360
–1

Blanchflower, Danny
295

Blanchot, Maurice
270

Blankers-Koen, Fanny
54

Blankety Blank
233

Bleak House
261

Blériot, Louis
13
,
14

Bligh, Jasmine
41
,
46

Blind Date
321

Blitz
magazine
305

Blockbusters
281

Blodau'r Ffair
journal
124

Blue Peter
2
–3,
178
,
190
,
282
,
286

Blunkett, David
344

Blythe, Ronald
177
–8,
353
,
367

Akenfield
177
,
352

Blyton, Enid
112

Bodkin, Professor Thomas
104

Bollywood films
280
,
281
,
345

Bolton, Betty
26

Bolton, Lancashire
122
,
142

Bolton FC
75

Bonanza
146

Bonington, Chris
172

Book Programme, The
247

Boon, Eric
40
,
41

Boorman, John
166

Border Television
126
,
218
,
219
,
349

Born, Georgina
309

Boulestin, Marcel
43

Boult, Sir Adrian
21

Bournemouth radio transmitter
30

Bowie, David
183
–4,
212
,
213

boxing
40
–1,
49
,
62
,
103
,
296

Boy George (George O'Dowd)
213

Boyd, William
281

Braben, Eddie
223
–4,
227
–8

Bradbury, Malcolm
120
,
155

Bradford
77
,
78
,
79
,
344

riots (2001)
344

Bradman, Don
53

Bragg, Melvyn
285

Brains Trust, The
114

Brasher, Chris
171
,
190

Bray, John
149

breakfast television
264
–5,
268

Breakfast Time
276

Brent, Douglas
100

Bridgewater, Leslie
94

Bridgewater, Tony
23

Briggs, David
333

Brighton, Sussex
82
,
134

Wax Museum
140

Britain's Got Talent
359

British Asians
201
–2,
344
,
345

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

first scheduled television programme
17
–18

first synchronised sound and vision broadcast (March 1930)
19

the first television play
19
–20

BBC accent
58

viewer panel
99
,
200

curfew
195

public meetings
215

ITV-BBC duopoly
217
,
249
,
279
,
332

BBC Television's fortieth anniversary (1976)
226

Film and Videotape Library
226

audience appreciation index
341

British Film Institute (BFI)
226
,
275
,
276
,
280
,
302
,
307
,
310
,
321
,
356

British Legion
117

British Leyland
194

British Medical Journal
111

British Relay
346

British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB)
291
,
292

British Telecom
358

Broadbent, Joan
183

Broadcasting Act (1990)
279
,
336
,
357
,
362

Broadcasting Act (1996)
362

Broadcasting House, Belfast
198

Broadcasting House, London
24
,
26
,
27
,
30
,
35
,
139

Broadcasting Standards Council
305

Bronowski, Jacob
110

Bronzino:
Venus and Cupid
189

Brooker, Charlie
340
–1

Brookes, Peter
206

Brookside
307

Brown, Allan
357

Brown, George Mackay
132
–33,
203
–6,
224
,
229
–31,
259
,
321
–22,
324

An Orkney Tapestry
204

Brown, Gordon
141
,
341
,
359
–60,
361
,
363

Brown, John Seely
344

Brown, Mhairi
203
,
204
,
205

Browne, Thomas
237

Bruce Forsyth's Big Night
252

Bruno, Frank
296

Brunsdon, Charlotte
242

Bryant, Arthur
80

Buchanan, Jack
138

Buckham, Bernard
35

Buckingham Palace, London
36
,
42
,
80
,
86

Buckland, Norah
157
–8

Bucknell, Barry
317