Abstract
Theatre-goers and readers of books are relatively few in number. It was the cinema which made story-telling in pictorial form widely available, and it was radio which first brought drama into millions of homes. In combining the advantages of the two, television has been able to satisfy the human need for ‘a good story’ as never before. ‘What we have now,’ as Professor Raymond Williams observed in 1975, ‘is drama as habitual experience: more in one week, in many cases, than most human beings would previously have seen in a lifetime.’1 By 1980 ITV and BBC television between them were offering the public eighty drama productions a week.
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Drama in a Dramatised Society: An Inaugural Lecture (Cambridge University Press, 1975).
Quoted in Television & Radio 1979 (Independent Broadcasting Authority/ Independent Television Publications Ltd) p. 93.
IBA Paper 61(78).
See also Chapter 3.
IBA Paper 61(78).
ITA Annual Report and Accounts 1969–70, p. 14.
See Volume 3, pp. 138–9.
Ibid, p. 144.
See also Chapter 4.
See also Chapter 3.
IBA Annual Report and Accounts 1975–76, p. 12.
IBA Paper 29(79): Appendix.
IBA Annual Report and Accounts 1975–76, p. 11.
IBA Annual Report and Accounts 1978–79, p. 16.
See Volume 3, pp. 275–7 and also Chapter 14.
See also Chapter 14.
IBA Paper 131(80).
Philip Purser in a communication to the author, January 1989.
Philip Purser, television critic of the Sunday Telegraph.
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Potter, J. (1990). Drama. In: Independent Television in Britain. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09907-8_12
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