Unit 2: Mass Media - Key Content

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Public service launched (1948)
NHS
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BBC policy book (1948)
The Green Book
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British Ealing Comedy (1949)
Passport to Pimlico
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Spiv movie (1950)
The Blue Lamp
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Bond book (1953)
Casino Royale
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Controversial film with Bill Haley soundtrack (1955)
Blackboard Jungle
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Channel launched ending BBC television monopoly (1955)
ITV
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End of food rationing marked ending of..........(1954)
Austerity
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1950s youth trend
Teddy Boys
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ITV soap (1960)
Coronation Street
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Report which finds adolescents taller than pre-WW2 (1960)
Albermarle Report
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New Wave film (1960)
Saturday Night, Sunday Morning
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New Wave film (1961)
A Taste of Honey
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New form of contraception (1961)
The Pill
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American "teenpic" film (1962)
Girls! Girls! Girls!
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BBC satire TV programme (1962)
That Was The Week That Was
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Political Scandal (1963)
Profumo Affair
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Number of Beatles No.1 (1963-1969)
Seventeen
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Launched Clean-Up TV campaign (1964)
Mary Whitehouse
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TV programme showing working class men from Newcastle (1963-1966)
Likely Lads
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Social Realism play (1965)
Up the Junction
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Social Realism play (1966)
Cathy Come Home
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TV programme featuring racist docker Alf Garnett (1965-1975)
Till Death Do Us Part
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Legal reform decriminalising homosexual relationships (1967)
Sexual Offences Act
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Legal reform (1969)
Divorce Reform Act
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Popular films released annually (1958-1976)
Carry On
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Female sitcom written by Carla Lane (1969-1979)
The Liver Birds
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Female sitcom written by Carla Lane (1978-1983)
Butterflies
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Legislation for women (1970)
Equal Pay Act
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Legislation for women (1976)
Sexual Discrimination Act
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Legislation preventing race discrimination (1976)
Race Relations Act
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Punk band that swore at Bill Grundy on live TV (1976)
Sex Pistols
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Disco film (1977)
Saturday Night Fever
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Public sector strike over low pay (1979)
Winter of Discontent
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Camp character in "Are You Being Served?" (1970s)
Mr Humpheries
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Controversially violent film (1970s)
A Clockwork Orange
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Controversially sexual film (1970s)
Emmanuel
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Most successful 1970s cinema
Bond films
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Investigative journalism TV programme that reported on Thalidomide and Northern Ireland (1970s)
The World in Action
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Race riots (1981)
Brixton
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War which lasted 74 days (1982)
Falklands War
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TV programme which filmed an episode about Zircon which was banned (1987)
Secret Society
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Telecommunications company launched by Murdoch (1989)
Sky
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1980s cinema
My Beautiful Laundrette
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1980s cinema
How to get Ahead in Advertising
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American TV programmes moulding consumerism (1980s)
Dynasty and Dallas
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US cop movie (1980s)
Police Academy
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US cop movie (1990s)
The Naked Gun
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Spitting Image and Have I Got News For You
TV Satire
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Creator of the first website (1991)
Tim Berners-Lee
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First pre-watershed lesbian kiss (1993)
Brookside
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Anne, Charles and Andrew all divorced (1992)
Annus horribilis
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Diana's interview (1995)
Panorama
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Helen Mirren cop TV programme (1991-2006)
Prime Suspect
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MP3 Player created by Apple (2001)
iPod
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Party at the Palace (2002)
Golden Jubilee
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Report on the Dodgy Dossier (2004)
Hutton Report
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Creator of Facebook (2004)
Mark Zuckerberg
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Video sharing site launched (2005)
YouTube
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50% of population no longer read... (2007)
Newspapers
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Positive BBC documentary about the Queen and Prince Phillip (2997)
Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work
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Soap which had an "all black" episode (2009)
Eastenders
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Card 2

Front

BBC policy book (1948)

Back

The Green Book

Card 3

Front

British Ealing Comedy (1949)

Back

Preview of the front of card 3

Card 4

Front

Spiv movie (1950)

Back

Preview of the front of card 4

Card 5

Front

Bond book (1953)

Back

Preview of the front of card 5
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