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1. The Times 20 Mar. 2003: 28.
2. For example, www.foyleswar.com; http://www.1066country.com/general/foyleswar/foyleswar_about.aspx; Rod Green, The Real History Behind Foyle's War (London: Carlton Books); Foyle's Hastings (Hastings: Hastings Borough Council, 2006).
3. See, for instance, the recent special issue of European Journal of Cultural Studies, 10.1 (2007), on ‘Televising History’, which focuses almost entirely on the problems and challenges of documentary history; CitationCannadine, which is similarly dominated by concerns about the transmission/teaching of history through television; or CitationRoberts and Taylor, in which only three out of 16 chapters specifically address non-documentary forms.
4. Isaacs inexplicably refers to the programme as The Dragon Has Two Heads. See also Kevin Williams’ paper in this collection.
5. The original Chronicle programmes explored the alleged links between Templar treasure and the French village of Rennes-Le-Chateau and were presented by Henry Lincoln, who went on to co-author (with Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh) The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (1982). In 1996 Timewatch broadcast a forensic critique of the Rennes-Le-Chateau ‘mysteries’ including Lincoln's Chronicle programmes themselves (Timewatch, ‘History of a Mystery’, BBC, 1996).
6. For the history of British television drama, see, for instance, CitationBrandt; CitationTulloch; CitationBignell, Lacey and MacMurraugh-Kavanagh; Cooke.
7. The terms ‘popular memory’ and ‘collective memory’ are often used interchangeably. For a cogent discussion of the uses and specific meanings of these terms (as well as the variants ‘social memory’ and ‘public memory’), see CitationSummerfield and Peniston-Bird 12–13.
8. See, for instance, CitationSorlin, CitationFerro, CitationLandy, CitationHughes-Warrington.
9. Though not always: see, for instance, CitationSamuel.
10. ‘[A]nd when I say “English” I really mean British. …’ Priestley 2 (the ‘Dunkirk’ Postscript, 5 June 1940).
11. Interestingly, Angus CitationCalder was commissioned to write the script for the Home Front episode of The World at War, ‘Home Fires’ (CitationChapman ‘The World at War’ 139).
12. Also of relevance are Enemy at the Door (ITV, 1978–80) set in the occupied Channel Islands, and Channel 4's dramatization of Mary Wesley's period family saga The Camomile Lawn (1992). For a list of relevant titles, see the BFI website http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1127960/index.html.
13. See Maureen CitationPaton, ‘Who Can Fill Morse's Shoes?’, The Times 5 Oct. 2002: 2. Inspector Morse (1987–2000), based on the novels by Colin Dexter, was ITV's greatest drama success of the 1990s, credited among other accolades with inventing the two-hour stand-alone detective drama as a mainstream feature in British television (Daily Telegraph 13 Nov. 2002: 71; Cooke 148–49).
14. The other two were The Last Detective and Lloyd and Hill: the former was a moderate success and ran for several series; the latter was not commissioned beyond the pilot.
15. Sarah Crompton, ‘Why We Love the Best TV 'Tecs’, Daily Telegraph 13 Nov. 2002: 23; see too The Times 27 Oct. 2002: 58.
16. See Sally Kinnes, ‘The One To Watch’, The Times 27 Oct. 2002: 58.
17. See Sally Kinnes, ‘The One To Watch’, The Times 27 Oct. 2002: 58.
18. Hugh Massingberd, ‘War Crimes on the Home Front’, Daily Mail 10 Aug. 2003: 60.
19. See, in particular, the volte-face by the Daily Mail's TV critic Peter CitationPaterson, from ‘War Effort? Why Bother?’, 28 Oct. 2002: 49, to ‘Spitfire Was Scrambled’, 18 Nov. 2002: 47. The Daily Mail went on to run a three-part serialization over Christmas 2002 of a new Foyle's War story written especially for the paper by Anthony Horowitz.
20. See Financial Times 21 Dec. 2004: 4.
21. See For a detailed exploration of the history of the idea of English national character, see CitationMandler passim.
22. Thomas CitationSutcliffe, ‘A Queer Victory in the Ratings War’, The Independent 1 Dec. 2003: 21.
23. Peter CitationPaterson, ‘Historically Incorrect’, Daily Mail 24 Nov. 2003: 49; James Delingpole, ‘Period Charm’, The Spectator 6 Dec. 2003: 70.
24. The Complete Beyond the Fringe, EMI CD, 1996, Disc 1 track 12. The series of sketches included the original version of Peter Cook's RAF officer sending a flyer off on a suicide mission with the words, ‘We need a futile gesture at this stage. It will raise the whole tone of the war.’
25. See too how popular fiction has engaged with the home front experience, from Graham Greene's The End of the Affair (1951) and the wartime short stories of Elizabeth Bowen (The Demon Lover, 1945), to Sarah Waters's The Night Watch (2006). In a related example, in their study of terrorism and its representation on British television in the 1980s, CitationSchlesinger, Murdock and Elliott conclude that drama was the televisual form most open to alternative explanations and explorations of the ‘Troubles’. Schlesinger Murdock and Elliott 76–80.