Broadcasting and the NHS in the Thatcherite 1980s [electronic resource] : The Challenge to Public Service /
Holland, Patricia.author.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- 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?.
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.
Great Britain. National Health Service
Communication.
Sociology.
Political science.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Motion pictures and television.
Media Research.
Media Studies.
Political Science.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Screen Studies.