Armchair Nation (78 page)

Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show, The
221
–3,
227
–8

Morgan, Edwin: ‘Unscrambling the waves at Goonhilly'
151

Morgan, Patti
99

Morgan, Piers
363

Morley, Robert
92

Morley, Royston
42

Morning Magazine
106

Morris, Desmond
210
,
339
–40

The Naked Ape
339

Morrissey, Steven
304
–5

Mortimer, John
224

Morton, Thomas:
Speed the Plough
156

Mosley, Leonard
64
–5

Mosquito Coast, The
(film)
281

Mossman, James
135

Moult, Ted
233

Mount, Ferdinand
338

Mountjoy, Doug
258

Moynihan, John
75
,
76
,
294
,
296

Mr and Mrs
264

Mr Pastry
227

Mr Popcorn's Band
265

Mrs Dale's Diary
84

Muffin the Mule
65

Muggeridge, Malcolm
7
,
174

Mullan, Bob
272
,
337

Mullin, Chris
344

Mulvey, Laura
191

Munich Agreement (1938)
39

Muppet Show, The
355

Murdoch, Rupert
288
,
289
,
290

Murray, Isobel
229

Murray, Dr Margaret
97

Murray, Pete
118

Muswell Hill, London
28
,
45
,
59
,
71

My Breasts Are Too Big
341

Mynott, Jeremy
119

N

Nagasaki, Kendo (Peter Thornley)
4

Nairn, Ian
119

Nairn, Tom
357

Naked Civil Servant, The
213

Naked Jungle
333

NASA
375

national anthem
195
,
268

National Association for Freedom
202

National Cat Club Show
33

National Front
201

National Grid
145
,
146
,
195
,
250
,
330

National Media Museum (formerly National Museum of Photography, Film and Television), Bradford
26
,
52

National Theatre, London
6

National Union of Agricultural Workers
178

National Viewers' and Listeners' Association
6
,
160

Nationwide
3
,
242

NBC
130

Neagle, Anna
138

Neighbours
276
–7,
278
,
280
,
281
,
307
,
321
–2,
361

Neil, Andrew
365

Net Book Agreement
314

Netherbutton mast, Orkney
134

Network
279

Neville, Mike
348
–9

New Labour
308
,
314
,
344
,
350
,
360

New Musical Express
320

New Order
297

New Romantic look
213

New Scientist
185

New Statesman
137
,
225

New York
130
,
154
,
182

Newbattle Abbey College, Midlothian
132
,
133

Newcastleton, Scottish Borders
353

Newman, Sydney
172
,
207

Newnham College, Cambridge
79

News At Ten
195

News Chronicle
59

Nichols, Peter
187

Nicklaus, Jack
166

Nicolson, Harold
43
–4

night-time television
267
–9,
270

Nine and a Half Psychedelic Meditations on British Wrestling of the 1970s and Early '80s
(album)
4

Nine O'Clock News
235

Nixon, Richard
183

Noble, Michael
168
–9

Norbury, James
117

Norman, Philip
118

Babycham Night
85
–6

North, Richard
208

North East Tonight
348

North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board
131

Northern Ireland
75
,
84
,
85
,
126
–7,
129
–30,
197
–8,
363

Not Only … But Also
224

Nottingham Forest FC
297

Nottingham Panthers
61

Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey
275

NTSC system
164

Nuffield Foundation television inquiry
91
,
96
,
102
,
142

Nupen, Christopher
156

Nye, Sue
341

O

Obscene Publications Act
274

Observer
155
,
236
,
237
,
281
,
296
,
301

O'Connor, Des
187

Odeon, Leicester Square, London
77

Office, The
341
–2

Oi Polloi
354

Old Man of Hoy
171
–3,
190

Oldham riots (2001)
344

Olivier, Laurence
23

Olympia and York
326

Omnibus
156
,
182

‘One Day in the Life of Television' project (1988)
275
–80,
283

One Foot in the Past
369

One Man and His Dog
254
–5,
351
,
354

One O'Clock Gang, The
127

One O'Clock News
334

One O'Clock Show
127

Only Fools and Horses
255

OPEC oil crisis
194

Open Air
281

Open Door
216
–17

Open University
181
,
266
,
279

Opera for Everybody
94

Opie, Iona and Peter
105
,
107
,
142
,
359

Opportunity Knocks
210
,
211
,
232

Orcadian
204
,
321

Orkney
131
–4,
171
,
203
–5,
224
,
229
,
230
,
231

Orkney Herald
132
,
133
,
134
,
204
,
205

Orwell, George
271

1984
27
,
101
,
102
,
103

Osborne, John
116
,
189

The Entertainer
115

Otley College of Agriculture and Horticulture, Suffolk
353

Ouest France
newspaper
130

Our World
satellite link-up
154

Out of Town
125
,
218
–19,
352

Outer Hebrides
168
,
203
,
289
,
325

Owen, Bob
70

P

Page, Robin
351

Pale Fountains
265

Palin, Michael
183
,
189
,
200
,
342

Pallo, Jackie:
You Grunt, I'll Groan
3

Panorama
7
,
92
,
117
,
135
,
136
,
204
,
247
,
250
,
251

Paramount Astoria Girls
25
–6

Parkhead Public Hall, Glasgow
67

Parkinson
210
,
221
,
224

Parkinson, Michael
210

Parnaby, Florence
346

Parnell, Val
107

Parrott, John
262

Parry-Williams, T.H.
70

Parsons, Nicholas
218

Partridge Family, The
268

party political broadcasts
109

‘passive people meter'
273

Pater, Walter
237

Patey, Tom
172

Patten, Marguerite
76
,
130

Pavarotti, Luciano
297

Paxman, Jeremy
127
,
276

Peacock Committee on Broadcasting (1986)
268

Peel, John
222
–3

‘Penge Pub Effect'
150

Penguin Books
174
,
311

People
newspaper
91
,
92

‘Man o' the
People
' column
102

People Are Funny
109

People's Journal
170

Perry, Jimmy
201

Perry Mason
135

Pertwee, Jon
207

Pet Rescue
331

Peters, John Durham
15

Speaking into the Air
358

Peters, Sylvia
57
,
61
,
348

Phil Silvers
135

Philadelphia Phillies
151

Philip, Prince, Duke of Edinburgh
73
,
86
–7,
150

Phillips, Mark
194

Phoenix, Patricia
303
,
305

phone-ins
182
,
196
,
268
,
358
–9

Photomatons
16

Pickles, Mabel
96

Pickles, Wilfred
54
,
65
,
96
,
132

Picture Page
34
,
35
,
47
,
49
,
55

Picture Post
magazine
57
,
62
,
63
,
94
,
96
,
97

Piers Plowman
4

Pile, Stephen
268

Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting
154
–5

Pilkington Report on Broadcasting (1962)
121
,
242
,
343

Pimlott, Ben
222
,
267

Pimlott, J.A.R.:
An Englishman's Christmas
222

Pink Floyd
182

Pinter, Harold
116
,
192

The Caretaker
116

A Night Out
116

Pirandello, Luigi:
The Man with a Flower in his Mouth
19
–20,
21
,
22

Pius XII, Pope
14

Plaice, Stephen
278

Plaid Cymru
355

Plato:
Republic
373

Play for Today
231

Plowden, Lady Brigette
241

Pobol y Cwm
220

Podmore, Bill
305

Poe, Edgar Allan
102
–3

Points of View
159
,
239

Poldark
320

Pontop Pike transmitter, County Durham
74
–75

Poor Cow
(film)
166

Pop Idol
358
,
361

Porridge
158
,
246

Porter, Cole
157

Post Office
33
,
129
–30

Post Office Engineering Union
61

postcards

census (1933)
26
–7

viewers' feedback (1936)
35

Postgate, Oliver
185

Postgate, Raymond
311

Postman Pat
321

Postmaster General
27
,
74
,
103
–4,
106
,
107
,
150
,
167

Pot Black
256
–7,
259

Potter, Dennis
225
,
231
,
329
–31,
343
,
353
,
365

The Changing Forest
114

Emergency Ward 9
330

The Glittering Coffin
114

The Singing Detective
274
–5

Pound, Reginald
73

Powell, Neil
306

Powell, Sandy
24

power cut (May 1961)
145

Press Association
90

Preston Polytechnic
292

Price is Right, The
260

Priestland, Gerald
226
–7

Priestley, J.B.
89

Prisoner: Cell Block H
269

Private Eye
magazine
6

Private Life of a Kingfisher, The
167

programme planners
250

public service broadcasting
250
,
342

public viewing rooms
35
–6,
41

Puffin Club
2

Purser, Philip
236

Purves, Peter
3