Broadcasting and the NHS in the Thatcherite 1980s :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
the challenge to public service
First Statement of Responsibility
Patricia Holland.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2013
CONTENTS NOTE
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Prologue: Echoes of the 1980s --;Introduction: Thatcherism, the Public and Writing Broadcasting History --;PART I: PROGRAMMES AND CHRONOLOGY 1927 --;1970 --;1. Myths of Origin: Public Service or the Road to Serfdom? --;PART II: PROGRAMMES AND CHRONOLOGY 1970 --;1980 --;2. Freedom and the Public: Campaigner, Participant, Consumer --;3. Broadcasting into the 1980s --;PART III: PROGRAMMES AND CHRONOLOGY 1979 --;1983 --;4. Restructuring Social Class --;5. From Needs to Wants: Restructuring Audiences, Restructuring Patients --;6. Your Life in Whose Hands? Restructuring Professionals --;PART IV: PROGRAMMES AND CHRONOLOGY 1983 --;1987 --;7. The Third Age and the Fresh Winds of Market Forces: Restructuring Broadcasting --;8 Griffiths, Peacock and Restructuring Public Service --;9. Aids and 'the public' at Risk --;PART V: PROGRAMMES AND CHRONOLOGY 1986 --;1990 --;10. Who's the Casualty? Popular Programmes --;11. The NHS and Third Term Politics --;12. 'Quality' and the Broadcasting White Paper --;Postscript: Public Service or Kitemark?
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Patricia Holland offers a fascinating study of the ways in which changes to public services, and shifts in the concept of 'the public' under Margaret Thatcher's three Conservative governments, were mediated by radio and television in the 1980s.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Broadcasting -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Broadcasting policy -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Great Britain. -- National Health Service -- History.