Word: bbc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...since had to cope with the symptoms of contact celebrity. He receives 15,000 letters a year; invitations and requests arrive daily. An assistant who handles this traffic is currently turning down lecture bookings for the rest of 1995. A good chunk of Sacks' time goes to the BBC, which is preparing a series about...
...time. His charming anecdotes of life as an English country vet tapped into the urban reader's apparently bottomless appetite for pastoral simplicity and infirm animals; All Creatures Great and Small, published in the U.S. in 1972, made Herriot a literary sensation-a status further enhanced by the popular BBC series based on his work. His 20 books were eventually translated into 20 languages. Meanwhile, British veterinary schools became swamped with applicants, and Herriot's practice in Thirsk (Darrowby in his books) was besieged by tourists attracted by the aggressive marketing of North Yorkshire as "Herriot Country...
Liddy, Magruder, Dean and the rest were back, 20 years older, to tell what they knew and when they knew it. The BBC interviewers elicited candor, several fresh revelations and, in five compelling hours, a definitive account of the scandal that brought down Richard Nixon's presidency...
...that time, the British airwaves were calcified in good taste. The only rock 'n' roll reached England from the piratic Radio Luxembourg. But BBC welcomed the occasional pop group, and the Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, knew it could make them. The band auditioned for producer Peter Pilbeam, who reported with guarded enthusiasm: "an unusual group ... with a tendency to play music." Rating the Beatles' singers, Pilbeam wrote, "John Lennon: yes; Paul McCartney: no." Anyway, they...
...Beatles' genius was best exhibited not in their glosses on archival rock but in Lennon's and especially McCartney's gifts for melody and harmony. In short order the Beatles' own compositions became more elaborate, and so did their studio technology, which the resources of the bbc could not meet. But the early songs still sound great. The full-note, three- part harmony ("Iiiiii'm sooooo glaaaad") in the bridge of I Feel Fine still seduces the listener into singing along. It's the expression of a pop- musical spirit eons removed from the rage and anxiety that replaced...