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Television Policy: The MacTaggart Lectures

Bob Franklin

Abstract

This book offers an account of the major developments in television programming and policy since 1976 by collecting in a single volume the James MacTaggart Memorial Lectures delivered at the Edinburgh International Television Festival across the last quarter of a century. The MacTaggart lecturers include the most celebrated and distinguished programme makers, producers, performers, playwrights, policymakers, and senior media executives across all sectors of broadcasting. The book provides a forum for the significant debates that have helped to shape both television content and policy across tw ... More

Keywords: television programming, television policy, MacTaggart Lectures, programme makers, producers, performers, playwrights, policymakers, senior media executives, broadcasting

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2005 Print ISBN-13: 9780748617173
Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: September 2012 DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748617173.001.0001

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Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Bob Franklin, editor

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction

Bob Franklin

The James MacTaggart Lectures

TV Drama: The Case against Naturalism

John McGrath

Naturalism and Television

Marcel Ophuls

Taboos in Television

Norman Lear

Signposting Television in the 1980s: The Fourth Television

Jeremy Isaacs

Television Drama, Censorship and the Truth

John Mortimer

The Day after Tomorrow: The Future of Electronic Publishing

Peter Jay

The Primacy of Programmes in the Future of Broadcasting

Denis Forman

Reflections on Working in Film and Television

John Schlesinger

‘Opening up the Fourth Front’: Micro Drama and the Rejection of Naturalism

Troy Kennedy Martin

Power and Pluralism in Broadcasting

Phillip Whitehead

Ethics, Broadcasting and Change: The French Experience

Christine Ockrent

Freedom in Broadcasting

Rupert Murdoch

Deregulation and Quality Television

Verity Lambert

The Future of Television: Market Forces and Social Values

David Elstein

The Future of the BBC

Michael Grade

Occupying Powers

Dennis Potter

A Culture of Dependency: Power, Politics and Broadcasters

Greg Dyke

Talent versus Television

Janet Street-Porter

A Glorious Future: Quality Broadcasting in the Digital Age

John Birt

Rewarding Creative Talent: The Struggle of the Independents

Laurence Marks, and Maurice Gran

Television versus the People

Peter Bazalgette

Public-Interest Broadcasting: A New Approach

Richard Eyre

A Time for Change

Greg Dyke

The Soul of British Television

David Liddiment

Television's Creative Deficit

Mark Thompson

Freedom of Choice: Public-Service Broadcasting and the BBC

Tony Ball

First Do No Harm

John Humphrys

End Matter

Appendix A Edinburgh International Television Festival, 29 August-2 September 1977: Programme

Appendix B

Index