Broadcasting and the NHS in the Thatcherite 1980s

Holland, Patricia; Chignell, Hugh; Wilson, Sherryl

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“…The 1986 Peacock committee was set up in the United Kingdom to consider the introduction of advertising on the BBC. Although the license fee and the BBC as a public service broadcaster were maintained, in the report, viewers and listeners were referred to as consumers marking a decisive shift in the ways in which viewers are perceived by policy makers (see Holland et al 2013).…”

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In the Living Room

Wilson

2015

Television & New Media

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This article is based on a small pilot project exploring the role, function, and meanings of second screens and companion apps for TV audiences that is contextualized by existing academic audience research. This is mapped alongside industry research and academic debate about second screens. The results illustrate some disjunction between industry expectations of usage and viewers’ everyday experiences. I argue that industries’ tendency to conflate “viewer” with “fan” indicates a less than nuanced understanding of the television/companion app audience. Further, the lean forward/lean back binary applied to digital media users and television audiences respectively points to a problematic not addressed in much industry literature, while the respondents for this research indicate a complex interplay between the pleasures of viewing that incorporates the social and the personal with the second screen and the TV text.

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In the Living Room

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2015

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“…For example, in the early years of the conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government (1979)(1980)(1981)(1982)(1983)(1984)(1985)(1986)(1987)(1988)(1989)(1990), many hours of programming on both the BBC and ITV were aimed at teenagers looking for their first job due to the shrinkage of Britain's manufacturing industries. This was also the era when AIDS was publicly recognised, and broadcasters made numerous programmes about sexual health (Holland, Chignell & Wilson, 2013). Short-term priorities like these reduced the priority given to children's music, which was already relatively vulnerable in comparison to 'core' curriculum subjects.…”

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Broadcasting Children’s Music

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2017

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Broadcasting children's music on television and radio is motivated by, and aims to serve, adults' perceptions of children's wants and needs. Children's music in general is shaped by the understanding of what 'childhood' means and, in turn, supports adults' assumptions about childhood.This article develops these ideas in an analysis of examples from the history of British radio and television, beginning in the 1920s and continuing until the growing penetration of online interactive media challenged the status of broadcasting in the early 21 st century. The article discusses examples of different kinds of children's music in a broadcast context, including the broadcast of commercial recordings of music for children, such as versions of traditional songs and nursery rhymes as well as pop music aimed at children. It also considers the significance of signature tunes and repeated musical sequences from long-lived and well-loved children's programmes, because they play key roles in differentiating children's programmes from each other and distinguishing children's music from music aimed at adults. Broadcast programmes frequently include music that does not play a central role, when it is used as an accompaniment to drama, entertainment performance or animation. But such music contributes to programmes' tone and shapes their mode of address to an imagined child audience.Entertainment shows or magazine programmes include music performances alongside non-musical sequences and can use music to, for example, mark an occasion for sing-along activities or accompany games. The social function of broadcasting for children watching or listening at home or at school, usually with an adult or other children, is constituted in part by these varied forms of children's music.These forms of music shape conceptions of childhood through particular kinds of listening practices and ways of belonging to an audience.

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The Public and Public Health

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Placing the Public in Public Health in Post-War Britain, 1948–2012

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In this chapter, we explore conceptualisations of the public, of public health and the relationship between these. We suggest there are three key ways in which 'the public' is seen: as a collection of people; as a space for action; and as a set of values. Likewise, public health can be understood in terms of: the challenges it faced or faces; the systems employed to deal with these; and as a kind of philosophy or outlook. We also look at the changing nature of the relationship between the public and public health. We begin in the nineteenth century, move on to the early twentieth century, and map out the broad elements of the dynamic surrounding public health and the public after 1945. Keywords The public • Public health • Public health history • Population • Citizenship • Public sphere Who or what is the 'public' in 'public health'? How have these concepts changed over time, and what impact does this have on the relationship between the public and public health? In this chapter we set out to address these critical questions. We argue that the 'public' and 'public health' are not fixed or concrete entities: these are constructions that alter over time and place. The slipperiness of such concepts makes them hard to define, but by studying their malleability, important aspects of the nature of the

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Broadcasting and the NHS in the Thatcherite 1980s

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