Paul Mason
Bob Hoskins 1942 – 2014: TV’s working class hero
Bob Hoskins’ sudden stardom in the 1970s symbolises the moment working class voices finally made it onto the mainstream stage, screen and broadcast drama.
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BBC salary report reveals huge gender pay gap
There are few women and even fewer ethnic minority stars: the BBC has published its list of top earners to an outcry over diversity. Theresa May demanded to know why the corporation paid women less than men for doing the same job, while a number of high profile presenters were forced to defend their salaries.
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Matt Frei
Downton Abbey grips America in the nostalgia of the past
Impossible hats, stately homes and the terrible consequences of class: why Downton Abbey has got millions of Americans glued to their television screens.
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Michael Crick
Cameron: exclude Farage from TV debates
Include UKIP in televised debates? No thanks, David Cameron says, as Michael Crick reports.
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Michael Crick
Downton Abbey – the Cameron connection
Those, like me, who are looking forward to the Christmas Day special of Downton Abbey on ITV may be interested in a festive morse.
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Jon Snow
Channel 4 News: 30 years on
Jon Snow looks back on 30 years of news, trouble and love that have shaped Channel 4 News since it first launched in 1982.
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Jon Snow
Savile provokes dark memories, but also hope
As rumours emerge about Jimmy Savile and the showbiz industry’s culture of sexism, Jon Snow recalls his own experience of the television industry in the 1970s – and how much has changed.
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Matt Frei
David v David on the Letterman Show
The Prime Minister got a c minus for his quiz. He confessed – in jest – that the grilling might spell the end of his career. Matt Frei on David Cameron on Letterman.
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Alex Thomson
Television in court: “a wee bit Jeremy Kyle”?
Alex Thomson reports on a milestone in the televising of court cases in Scotland.
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Is British TV failing Scotland?
I’d forgotten how English the British media is. Having started my career in BBC Scotland it used to be something I was quite aware of.