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Article: Celebrated Elizabethans in the television age.(The Shadow of a Nation: The Changing Face of Britain)(Book Review)
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- February 1, 2004
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The Shadow of a Nation: The Changing Face of Britain. Nick Clarke. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. [pounds sterling]20.00. 277 pages. ISBN 0-297-60770-7.
Nick Clarke, voted Radio Broadcaster of the Year in 2000, presents BBC Radio Four's lunchtime news programme, The World at One. This is his second book and follows a best-selling biography of Alistair Cooke, another doyen of BBC Radio. Mr Clarke distrusts the glaring lights of television, blaming them for helping to destroy what he sees as 'the solid reality of everyday existence' of the pre-TV age and replacing it with the less substantial shadow-world of television celebrity. According to this book, television is a ...
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