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Main Title: Whose ABC? : the Australian Broadcasting Corporation 1983-2006 / K.S. Inglis. Book Cover
Author: Inglis, K. S. (Kenneth Stanley), 1929-2017.
Imprint: Black Inc., 2006.
Collation: 645 p. : notes, bib., index, pbk ; 24 cm.
Subject: Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
Television and television programs
Radio
Broadcasting and broadcasters
ISBN: 9781863951890
Notes:
Whose ABC? is Ken Inglis's long-awaited political and cultural history of one of Australia's best-loved institutions. Combining in-depth research, interviews with the key players and a gift for story-telling, it is social history of the highest order.Since 1983, the ABC has seen controversial managing directors -- David Hill, Jonathan Shier -- come and go. There have been fights over funding -- "eight cents a day" -- and charges of bias. There have been both programming triumphs -- from Bananas in Pyjamas to Kath and Kim -- and accusations of cowardice and dumbing down.Whose ABC? deals with all these events and more. It seeks out the truth of events and breaks new ground. The result is an unfailingly readable narrative that will be seen as a classic of Australian historical writing.
Result Collection Location Shelf No Status Notes
Non-Fiction Main Library 384.54 ABC Available