Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on the Text -- Chronology -- Part One The Confidence Course -- Introduction -- Changes at the top: Isis, 22 May 1957 -- Stubbornyuddedness: Dean Forest Guardian, 4 October 1957 -- Base ingratitude?: New Statesman, 3 May 1958 -- Just gimmicks: Isis, 4 June 1958 -- I am proud of my home and family…no obsession: Dean Forest Guardian, 5 September 1958 -- Potter: 1: Isis, 21 January 1959 -- It's time to get out of the rut: Daily Mirror, 3 October 1959 -- Paradise Gained: Dennis Potter on Television: Isis, 27 January 1960 -- The Establishment: Ten O'Clock, BBC Home Service, 6 October 1961 -- Flyover in my eyes: Daily Herald, 18 November 1961 -- Pre-packed childhood: Sunday Times, 20 May 1962 -- At last - free speech is creeping into TV: Daily Herald, 29 September 1962 -- Greed in the corn: Daily Herald, 6 October 1962 -- TV can make religion dramatic: Daily Herald, 17 November 1962 -- This TV newcomer smiles as she bites: Daily Herald, 26 November 1962 -- Secret of Coronation Street: Daily Herald, 12 January 1963 -- Stop nagging at us!: Daily Herald, 9 February 1963 -- Entitled to Know: Nationalization Pamphlet: That Was The Week That Was, BBC-TV, 2 March 1963 -- Culture leaps out of its cage: Daily Herald, 9 March 1963 -- This was a glorious wallop: Daily Herald, 30 March 1963 -- Don't be so T-Victorian: Daily Herald, 3 August 1963 -- And everyone seemed slightly ashamed: Daily Herald, 26 August 1963 -- The sweet screams of success: Daily Herald, 14 October 1963 -- I won't say no to Doctor Who: Daily Herald, 30 November 1963 -- Treasures of the past: Daily Herald, 14 December 1963 -- Steptoe pushes out the television junk: Daily Herald, 18 January 1964 -- Writers are kings without riches: Daily Herald, 25 January 1964 Did I hear the poodle growl?: Daily Herald, 15 February 1964 58 -- Z Cars comes to the end of the alley: Daily Herald, 14 March 1964 -- Out goes pomposity: Daily Herald, 22 April 1964 -- Sport is too good to leave with the experts: Daily Herald, 25 July 1964 -- School Sketch: Not So Much a Programme More a Way of Life, 9 January 1965 -- Letter to the Stage: Stage, 29 July 1965 -- Drama with no safety curtain: New Society, 30 December 1965 -- The art of true invective: New Society, 27 January 1966 -- A Boswell in the bicarbonate: New Society, 26 May 1966 -- Aberfan: New Society, 27 October 1966 -- Young Ibsen: towards the southbound steamer: Times, 9 December 1967 -- George Orwell: New Society, 1 February 1968 -- I really must tell you I'm so very happy: Sun, 13 May 1968 -- Dennis Potter exposed: Sun, 20 May 1968 -- Armchair revolution: New Society, 20 June 1968 -- The face at the window: Times, 3 August 1968 -- Back - to weave dreams out of my own wallpaper: Sun, 21 October 1968 -- Lightning over a dark field: Times, 7 December 1968 105 -- Part Two Telling Stories -- Introduction -- Acid drops: Plays and Players, November 1971 -- The sweetest music this side of heaven: Times, 2 December 1971 -- Tsar's army: New Statesman, 13 October 1972 -- Alf takes over: New Statesman, 20 October 1972 -- Switch on, switch over, switch off: Times, 15 March 1973 -- Kafka and Brasso: Times, 14 May 1973 -- The Hart Interview: BBC1, 14 August 1973 -- Receding dreams: New Statesman, 15 March 1974 -- Boy in a landscape: New Statesman, 29 March 1974 -- Mimic men: New Statesman, 13 September 1974 -- Second time round: New Statesman, 27 September 1974 -- In a rut: New Statesman, 22 November 1974 -- Violence out of a box: New Statesman, 29 November 1974 -- Switch back: New Statesman, 7 March 1975 -- Telling stories: New Society, 15 May 1975 164 Marching to Zion: New Society, 19 June 1975 168 -- One man's week: Sunday Times, 18 April 1976 -- A note from Mr Milne: New Statesman, 23 April 1976 -- Poisonous gas: New Statesman, 28 May 1976 -- Puppets on a string: Sunday Times, 5 December 1976 -- And with no language but a cry: BBC Radio 3, 27 December 1976 -- Glop: New Statesman, 22 April 1977 -- A Frosty night: Sunday Times, 8 May 1977 -- Whistling in the dark: Sunday Times, 12 June 1977 195 -- The spectre at the harvest feast: Sunday Times, 19 June 1977 -- Various kinds of scavenger: Sunday Times, 24 July 1977 -- Realism and non-naturalism: Edinburgh International Television Festival, 1 September 1977 203 -- Part Three Ticket to Ride -- Introduction -- Trampling the mud from wall to wall: Sunday Times, 6 November 1977 -- Tonight: BBC1, 7 November 1977 -- I accuse the inquisitors: Sunday Times, 4 December 1977 -- An innocent abroad: Sunday Times Magazine, 8 January 1978 -- Let the cry of rage be heard: Sunday Times, 29 January 1978 -- A play astonishing in its excellence: Sunday Times, 5 February 1978 255 -- The other side of the dark: All in the Waiting, BBC Radio 4, 23 February 1978 -- Start the Week with Richard Baker: BBC Radio 4, 13 March 1978 -- Bank holiday blues: Sunday Times, 3 September 1978 266 -- The lascivious leer of the senses: Sunday Times, 19 November 1978 -- Goodbye to all that: Sunday Times, 26 November 1978 272 -- Theatre Call: BBC World Service, 9 February 1979 -- Anteroom to purgatory: Tatler, November 1979 -- Cheryl Campbell - An appreciation by Dennis Potter: Over 21, March 1980 283 -- Potter rights: Broadcast, 6 October 1980 285 -- Writers' reading in 1981: Guardian, 10 December 1981 -- Pruning dead wood in Gorky Park: Sunday Times Magazine, 18 December 1983 -- Introduction: Tender is the Night, 1987 -- Writers' attitudes to wealth creation: Independent, 17 June 1987 The John Dunn Show: BBC Radio 2, 13 December 1989 -- Sincerely theirs: letters as literature: New York Times, 27 May 1990 -- Pride: 'Breathe on 'um Berry!', 1992 -- Downloading: January 1992 -- Smoke screen: Guardian, 28 March 1994 -- Introduction to Karaoke and Cold Lazarus: 28 April 1994 -- The Artist: The Dane, July 1953 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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