Abstract
An overview of BBC television drama that has portrayed aspects of the Troubles, the article defines three types of output - drama-documentaries, the single-authored drama and the serial form. Each is considered in turn and analysed in terms of approach to the underlying political crisis.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Broadcasting in a Divided Community: Seventy Years of the BBC in Northern Ireland |
Editors | Martin McLoone |
Publisher | Queen's University Belfast |
Pages | 20-34 |
ISBN (Print) | 085389-620-8 |
Publication status | Published (in print/issue) - 1996 |
Keywords
- television history
- BBC NI
- television drama
- the Troubles