What are we telling the nation?
David Edgar: Thoughts about the BBC, 7 July 2005
Uncertain Vision: Birt, Dyke and the Reinvention of the BBC
by Georgina Born.
Vintage, 352 pp., £10.99, August 2005,0 09 942893 8 Show More
by Georgina Born.
Vintage, 352 pp., £10.99, August 2005,
“... but reached its climax in the cloning contests of reality TV. According to research by Steven Barnett, in 1955 the BBC devoted 10 per cent of its schedule to arts programmes and nearly 25 per cent to children. Over the course of the last decade, the time devoted to soaps has almost doubled (approaching 10 per cent of peak output), current affairs ... ”