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by Alwyn W Turner
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About Me
- Alwyn W. Turner
- ...is a writer living in London. His next book will be The Last Post: Music, Remembrance and the Great War. Previous work includes a trilogy on modern British history: Crisis? What Crisis?, Rejoice! Rejoice! and A Classless Society, and some stuff about popular culture in Britain: The Biba Experience, Halfway to Paradise, Glam Rock, Portmeirion and The Man Who Invented the Daleks. That sort of thing.
Labels
- 1940s (1)
- 1950s (3)
- 1960s (3)
- 1970s (8)
- 1980s (7)
- 1990s (2)
- A Classless Society (26)
- Aurum (17)
- BBC (11)
- Biba (8)
- Billy Fury (4)
- Brian Freeborn (3)
- Bryan Gould (4)
- Charles Moore (3)
- Clough Williams-Ellis (3)
- Crisis? What Crisis? (33)
- Cult Rock Posters 1972-1982 (3)
- Daily Mail (10)
- Daily Mirror (1)
- Daily Telegraph (10)
- Dan Atkinson (8)
- David Aaronovitch (3)
- David Bowie (8)
- David Cameron (16)
- Doctor Who (6)
- Dominic Sandbrook (4)
- Ed Balls (4)
- Ed Miliband (20)
- Edwina Currie (3)
- Enoch Powell (5)
- European Union (4)
- First World War (4)
- Gary Glitter (4)
- gay marriage (4)
- Giles Radice (3)
- glam rock (9)
- Gordon Brown (7)
- Halfway to Paradise (21)
- Harold Wilson (5)
- Harry Goodwin (10)
- Harry Hammond (23)
- Hugo Frey (3)
- Iain Dale (3)
- Janice Atkinson-Small (3)
- Jeremy Vine (3)
- Jerry Lee Lewis (3)
- Jim Callaghan (4)
- Jimmy Savile (6)
- John Major (8)
- John Summers (9)
- Ken Livingstone (7)
- Labour Party (14)
- Larry Parnes (3)
- Let us now praise (3)
- Magic Gardens (3)
- Mail on Sunday (5)
- Margaret Thatcher (17)
- Mary Whitehouse (4)
- Mojo (6)
- My Generation (11)
- New Statesman (10)
- NHS (3)
- Nick Clegg (3)
- Nick Cohen (3)
- Nigel Farage (8)
- Norman Tebbit (3)
- Olympic Games (5)
- paedophilia (7)
- Peter Hitchens (3)
- Portmeirion (4)
- Prince Charles (3)
- Question Time (4)
- quote for the week (20)
- Radio 2 (3)
- Radio 4 (4)
- Radio Five Live (5)
- Rejoice Rejoice (16)
- Richard Littlejohn (3)
- Roger Lewis (4)
- Sam Harrison (6)
- Scotland (3)
- Simon Heffer (4)
- Stand Down Margaret (3)
- Steve Thomas (5)
- Sunday Times (4)
- The Age of Insecurity (3)
- The Guardian (7)
- The Last Post (7)
- The Man Who Invented the Daleks (22)
- The Spectator (4)
- The Sun (3)
- The Sweeney (3)
- The Times (4)
- Things Can Only Get Bitter (16)
- Tony Benn (5)
- Tony Blair (19)
- Tony Hancock (3)
- Top of the Pops (6)
- top ten (10)
- Trash Fiction (5)
- UKIP (11)
- University of Chichester (6)
- V and A (22)
- Wales (3)
- William Hague (3)
- Yesterday's Papers (5)
5 comments:
Hi,
Enjoyed the book a lot, although the trail seems to go a bit cold when Nation goes to California. Was there less documentation or were you less interested in Nation outside of his UK context? Mention of a 'Merlin' TV show is tantalizing. And you overlook one superlative Nation TV script, his Take-Over episode of the Avengers...
Yes, I'm sorry about Take-Over - it got lost in the attempt to bring the manuscript down to manageable proportions, and I didn't realise it had disappeared entirely until publication.
I enjoyed reading CRISIS, WHAT CRIS? and REJOICE!REJOICE! Do you have any plans to write an account of the rather blander 1990s?
I've just noticed the ommission of the last 2 letters in 'Crisis?!'.
Thanks for the kind words about the books, Tyrone, and in answer to your query: yes, there'll be another one along in a bit - please see my blog entry for today.
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