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The Angry Buzz: This Week and Current Affairs Television

The Angry Buzz: This Week and Current Affairs Television

Holland, Patricia

Paperback

Television

ISBN10: 184511051X
ISBN13: 9781845110512
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
Published: Jan 27 2006
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.70 Width: 7.14 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Current affairs television in the UK, in more than half a century of programmes, has set out to tell us something we didn't know, treating its audience as citizens with the right to demand that 'something must be done'. Over their 36 year history, the current affairs series This Week and its replacement TVEye, helped to mark out that democratic project. This is the story of This Week, one of the few giants of the genre, set within the wider pattern of 'the angry buzz' of inquiry and dissent that is current affairs television. This is a particularly timely tale, now that many fear that current affairs may be an endangered species. Patricia Holland follows This Week from its beginnings in the 1950s as a light magazine programme with some serious moments, through the challenging programmes of the 1970s - which brought home the reality of poverty at home, famine in Africa and accusations of torture in Northern Ireland. The story continues right up to its demise in 1992, often blamed on its controversial programme Death on the Rock on the shooting of IRA terrorists in Gibraltar.

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