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British Television Drama: A History

Lez Cooke
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The early development of television drama - 1936-54 popular drama and social realism - 1955-61 British TV drama comes of age - 1962-9 history, realism and ideology - 1970-9 TV drama and Thatcherism - 1980-90 reinventing TV drama - 1991-2001 as mentioned in this paper.
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The early development of television drama - 1936-54 popular drama and social realism - 1955-61 British TV drama comes of age - 1962-9 history, realism and ideology - 1970-9 TV drama and Thatcherism - 1980-90 reinventing TV drama - 1991-2001.

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