Acknowledgements Preface Chapter 1 Introduction Historical Illusions: Different but the same Cross-boundary comparison and drawing the lines: problems of method? Historical Parameters and Public Service Frameworks Drama as a television genre Structure of feeling plus social imperative Questioning the ''golden age'' The Production Process, and Creative Practitioners Chapter 2 Democratising culture Peuple et culture, Télé-clubs and l''État d''Urgence Cultural intervention, an affair of state: Manifeste des 121 Culture and Class in Britain Cultural debates and definitions Cultural activism - France and Britain The BBC cultural mission The culture of everyday life: authoritarian structures The pre-Osborne drought Angry writers: a catalyst for change? Watching film in cinema .watching drama on television. Chapter 3: INSTITUTIONS AND POLITICAL ECONOMY OF FRENCH TELEVISION. Push pull factors of dramatic control Comparison Post-war priorities Radio - a basic essential of everyday life Television relaunched - officially. Five-year plan and a promising future for television Management structures: with commitment RTF has landed - with govt control:1958/59 De Gaulle in the living room De Gaulle, Peyrefitte and the voice of France ORTF start up: liberalism and dramatic suppression. Bureaucracy: les bouchons for programme makers Co-production, the erosion of public service broadcasting- and advertising May 68, censorship, no AI but transistors, and television drama directors Return to normal life: sackings and reforms Chapter Four: The Politics of British Television Drama: Class and Profitable Interventions Introduction Social and Historical context: post-war setting for television drama Institutional priorities: BBC Management Television has come to stay: a luxury service, or shoestring technology? Television sets for the people - in Britain - and in France! Public service, the BBC and centralized control BBC management and the TV ugly duckling Collins and McGivern: radio men converted to television To expand or not to expand, a question of politics and television access The Coronation, a Ten-Year Plan and competition for the BBC Programmes for sale, but under strict control:the start of ITV Regionality, ratings, drama and social class BBC, competition, and the search for new ideas Pilkington Report - Good marks generally.but for some, room for improvement The Greene start-up: The New Young Gladiators of BBC2 BBC culture, industrialization, and the rise of professionalism Television and Political Happenings Conclusion Chapter 5: THE POLITICS OF FRENCH TELEVISION DRAMA: The Liberation Generation Introduction Start Up: A Beautiful Future Management and dramatic changes Live output, technology, studios and dramatic results Authenticity: politics and practicalities Television director as auteur Liberation Generation and the Institut des Hautes Cinématographiques (IDHEC) The people''s teachers and public service Live broadcasts: directors, auteurs, trade unionists, fingers on the buttons Directors and politics part 1: ''The strike would be hard and long.'' Continuity genre and codes of politics Directors and politics part 2: the Lorenzi Affair and political victimisation Censorship, Drama Directors, and control of production process Drama Directors and control of the production process Trade union membership and opposition to de-professionalisation Television drama: quality and quantity post-1964 The drama of politics: May 68 and the television directors Conclusions Chapter 6: Writer, Director, Social Class: new voices in British television drama Introduction Writers, class, and the politics of culture: new writers, new drama Television drama scripts as a try out for theatre and cinema A sort of writers'' workshop Crossing the boundaries to interpretreality: the tiny window of television.

Chayefsky and new insights ''Television needs the writer even more than he needs television.'' The ''eloquence of the vernacular'', and social class Writers, politics, and teamwork Reorganisation for writers A ''real organisation of writers''.and no golden age Mediators and output: writers, producers, agents, gender, control The writer/mediator conflict "To get writers we have to woo them.good plays are in short supply." Chapter 7 Director, writer, change, and challenge in the drama of French Television Comparison The Director: the pivotal profession The press TV critics and status of the director The role of the writer Director, producer: control? Un des genres télévisuels par excellence : innovation and the politics of drama Si c''Était Vous : the first Nouvelle Vague production Les Cinq Dernières Minutes Television Drama and Political Consciousness: La Camera Explore. Écriture par l''Image -TV images and reality Conclusion Chapter 8 Comparisons Television relaunch, reluctant government support The People''s television sets Political address and drama Live transmission and recording potential: technology and aesthetics Public service, literary adaptations and theatrical influences Innovation, the author, and teamwork Drama which connects from the left Power in the studio Creativity, management, innovative output Bibliography Specialist Libraries and Archives consulted Libraries and archives Manuscript and other Primary Sources BBC Written Archives (Caversham) British Film Institute Library Special Collections Press Sources Archive material Personal Interviews Index.