This, like Good Behaviour, is a black comedy set in a crumbling Anglo-Irishbig house, Durraghglass. Unlike Good Behaviour it sets its protagonist family (of the same generation as Aroon St Charles) in...
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February 1959: A non-deferential interview of Prime Minister...
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February 1959
A non-deferential interview of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan
by broadcaster Robin Day
is credited with first making television a significant part of the political process in Britain.
Steele, Sir Richard, and Joseph Addison, editors. The Guardian. J. Tonson.
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1970: Robin Day launched a BBC radio phone-in programme,...
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1970
Robin Day
launched a BBC radio phone-in programme, It's Your Line, in which, for the first time, ordinary people in Britain were enabled to question the senior politicians.
Steele, Sir Richard, and Joseph Addison, editors. The Guardian. J. Tonson.