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Index
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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