- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd (17 July 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0719554802
- ISBN-13: 978-0719554803
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 13.7 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 887,778 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Plenty of gripping anecdotes' -- Sunday Times 'Kate Dunn has compiled a valuable and necessary work of oral history! She has mapped out a world of television that has been comprehensively lost' -- Independent on Sunday
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In a world where most programmes are recorded and perfected before they reach our screens, it is hard to imagine an era when every radio and TV programme went out live. The actors and actresses who worked in the BBC's first television studios at Alexandra Palace had - literally - to think on their feet, running from set to set, often while changing costume and making cuts to their scripts at the same time. In "Do Not Adjust Your Set", Dame Eileen Atkins, Wendy Craig, the late Sir Nigel Hawthorne and other old broadcasting hands recall the frenetic conditions in which such television classics as "Dixon of Dock Green" and "Z Cars" were made and the extraordinary hazards they had to deal with.
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By Kate Dunn (Bristol United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Do Not Adjust Your Set: The Early Days of Television (Hardcover)
I felt hugely privileged to be able to talk to so many of the great actors and actresses of our time about their formative experience of working in the early days of live television. 'Do Not Adjust Your Set' features contributions from the late Sir Nigel Hawthorne, Dame Eileen Atkins, Wendy Craig, Peter Bowles, George Baker, Christopher Lee, Peggy Mount and scores of other artists. My intention was not only to collect as many amusing anecdotes as possible - although the book is stuffed fully of funny stories - but also to capture an impression of the conditions under which many live broadcasts were made. Because nothing could be recorded during the 30s, 40s and 50s, little contemporaneous material survives and I wanted to ensure that achievements which defined how the new medium of television developed were preserved for all of us to read.
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This review is from: Do Not Adjust Your Set: The Early Days of Television (Hardcover)
I have just started to read this book and am very surprised in the number of factual errors I have found in the first 24 pages. For instance she says that both EMI and Marconi were American companies ( of course they were British ) and she talks about a film studio in " Dedham , Suffolk " . I think she must mean Denham in Hertfordshire. When I find so many errors so early in a book I makes me very reluctant to continue to the end.A pity realy , because I was so looking forward to enjoying this bookA
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