{"title":"Le Régime social britannique à l’heure du Brexit, entre complexité constitutionnelle et incertitude politique","authors":"Clémence Fourton","doi":"10.4000/RFCB.7808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/RFCB.7808","url":null,"abstract":"Cet article examine les consequences de la sortie du Royaume-Uni de l’Union europeenne (UE) sur le regime social britannique, entendu comme l’ensemble complexe forme par les institutions sociales, leurs effets et leurs determinants. En particulier, le rapatriement des competences europeennes, l’integration et la reforme de l’acquis communautaire, et la rupture avec les institutions europeennes posent des questions de gouvernance et d’equilibres politiques, car ces developpements surviennent dans un paysage constitutionnel marque par l’absence codification et par la devolution d’une partie du pouvoir executif et legislatif aux nations. Hors de l’UE, la differenciation des regimes sociaux anglais, ecossais, gallois et nord-irlandais est donc vouee a s’accentuer. Hors de l’UE, le Royaume-Uni devra mettre au point de nouveaux mecanismes de lutte contre les inegalites regionales, sous peine de voir celles-ci s’accentuer. Hors de l’UE, le Royaume-Uni renonce egalement a la protection des droits sociaux par la Cour de justice de l’Union europeenne, et ceux-ci relevent a nouveau de la souverainete parlementaire. Hors de l’UE, le regime social britannique est donc plus que jamais le produit de rapports de force conjoncturels, marques notamment par la tentation de la concentration des pouvoirs a Londres, l’heritage conservateur en matiere de politiques sociales, et les logiques de differenciation territoriale. Enfin, le processus de sortie de l’UE provoque, en parallele de cette politisation des questions sociales, un deficit de lisibilite quant a leur definition a moyen et long terme.","PeriodicalId":31365,"journal":{"name":"Revue Francaise de Civilisation Britannique","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70598162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La BBC et l’information sur le conflit en Irlande du Nord (1960-1995)","authors":"É. Gallet","doi":"10.4000/rfcb.7491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/rfcb.7491","url":null,"abstract":"La BBC a joue un role actif dans les conflits, a commencer par la Deuxieme Guerre mondiale jusqu’a la Guerre en Irak, en passant par la Guerre des Malouines. La couverture du conflit en Irlande du Nord a toutefois suscite une difficulte inedite : ce conflit, contrairement aux autres guerres dans lesquelles les ennemis etaient etrangers, s’est deroule sur le territoire national et impliquait non seulement l’armee mais aussi des civils britanniques.Cet article dresse un panorama de la couverture realisee par la BBC depuis la recrudescence de la violence a la fin des annees 1960 jusqu’en 1995, en mettant l’accent sur les strategies utilisees par le gouvernement britannique pour influencer cette couverture, frappee de 1988 a 1994 par une censure directe. La reflexion est completee par un examen des documentaires et telefilms diffuses sur BBC 1 et BBC 2 entre 1988 et 1995. A quelques exceptions pres, la BBC a globalement adhere a la politique gouvernementale en Irlande du Nord en proposant une couverture partielle et partiale du conflit.","PeriodicalId":31365,"journal":{"name":"Revue Francaise de Civilisation Britannique","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48090787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Darrell Newton, Paving the Empire Road, BBC Television and Black Britons","authors":"Olivier Esteves","doi":"10.4000/rfcb.7622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/rfcb.7622","url":null,"abstract":"In Paving the Empire Road, BBC Television and Black Britons, Darrell Newton provides an insightful, exhaustive analysis of the ways in which the BBC, and beyond it other TV channels, have debated, integrated, projected, stereotyped non-whites on screen. The many references to other channels -notably ITV, Channel Four- in the last chapters are in fact so many pointers to the strong path dependence on decisions, policies, perceptions, approaches within the BBC, the latter providing in Newton’s ...","PeriodicalId":31365,"journal":{"name":"Revue Francaise de Civilisation Britannique","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48905548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"BBC Drama and the Politics of Production 1955-66","authors":"J. Leman","doi":"10.4000/rfcb.7642","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/rfcb.7642","url":null,"abstract":"This paper offers a critical perspective regarding the British Broadcasting Corporation, briefly touching on the early years, the dominance of radio, and the struggle to obtain recognition and resources for television production. The management structures, policies and decision making of the BBC will be considered, with reference to consequences for practitioners and for the form and content of programmes broadcast.","PeriodicalId":31365,"journal":{"name":"Revue Francaise de Civilisation Britannique","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70597937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Rises and Falls of Adult Education on the BBC","authors":"Allan Jones","doi":"10.4000/rfcb.7377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/rfcb.7377","url":null,"abstract":"Adult education at the BBC has a chequered history. During the 1920s and 1930s, the BBC invested heavily in adult education, but after a promising start the scheme failed. Further rises and falls followed. The development of The Open University (founded in 1969) was seen as a new venture for adult-educational broadcasting, but broadcasts formed only a small part of its teaching material. Two extremely successful BBC literacy ventures during the 1970s and 1980s, however, showed what adult educational broadcasting at its best was capable of. Despite its chequered history, educational broadcasting has been deeply pervaded by ethical values and adheres to the founding principles of public service broadcasting.","PeriodicalId":31365,"journal":{"name":"Revue Francaise de Civilisation Britannique","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49128825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Challenging the “Neutrality” of Public Service in the 1960s: The Wednesday Plays of Tony Garnett and Ken Loach","authors":"S. O’Carroll","doi":"10.4000/rfcb.7542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/rfcb.7542","url":null,"abstract":"Starting from the question of the BBC’s supposed social and political neutrality, the article examines a specific moment in the history of the Corporation, the 1960s, by focusing on an innovation in television production: a series of single plays (television dramas) called The Wednesday Play. The article examines the institutional origins of the series in relation to a critical assessment of the BBC in the Pilkington Report of 1962 and the subsequent broadening of the social origins of recruits in anticipation of the second public-service channel, BBC2. The article goes on to consider three emblematic plays, in order to illustrate both the potentialities and the problematic issues arising from mixing fictionality and veracity. Finally, the lasting social and political significance of these plays is assessed as a unique moment in the history of the BBC.","PeriodicalId":31365,"journal":{"name":"Revue Francaise de Civilisation Britannique","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48327641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“A Claim to Be Heard”: Voices of Ordinary People in BBC Radio Features","authors":"P. Lewis","doi":"10.4000/rfcb.7681","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/rfcb.7681","url":null,"abstract":"The BBC radio feature, originally influenced by the documentary film movement, combined music and sound with speech that at first was scripted, later recorded on location, along with ‘actuality’. This paper will ask ‘whose speech?’ A memorandum from BBC Director General, John Reith, in 1924, had insisted that “only those who have a claim to be heard above their fellows on any particular subject… should be put on the programme”. Nevertheless, from the 1930s onwards, there was a continuing effort on the part of more politically-minded producers to extend the range of voices heard on the air. The BBC’s North Region, where it was easier to escape Reith’s centralising control, led the way. Pioneering initiatives used the cumbersome recording apparatus of the time to reach into people’s homes and work-places to capture working class voices. After WW2 this example was followed in other regions, until, belatedly in the late 1950s, the BBC began to accept the use of portable recording. By this time a Europe-wide culture of radio feature-making had developed, influenced by the French exploration of musique concrete and the flourishing German Horspiel, and fostered by the Prix Italia and the International Features Workshop. British features producers contributed to this movement and won some success with highly-crafted, aesthetically innovative features. The paper concludes by examining examples of the voices heard in BBC radio features in the last decade of the 20th century.","PeriodicalId":31365,"journal":{"name":"Revue Francaise de Civilisation Britannique","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70597884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"John Reith and the BBC 1922-1939: Building an Empire of the Air?","authors":"T. Harris","doi":"10.4000/rfcb.7498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/rfcb.7498","url":null,"abstract":"The habit of government control engendered by the Great War ensured the emergence of a public broadcasting corporation over a set of private initiatives: but, even so, this required the exceptional drive and sense of mission of John Reith. The latter’s character is still credited, by many, with leading the BBC’s quest for the Holy Grail of broadcasting – media impartiality: yet the Earl of Crawford felt, in 1925, that Reith had a “swelled head”. The imprint of the latter on the BBC’s character and aims – balance and neutrality – seems rather to embody another fundamental principle: that of “unified control,” a paternalistic, central authority which determined what the BBC was, and what it was for… This article discusses the nature and impact of such an approach on the organisation, staffing and programming at the BBC from its beginnings to the eve of the Second World War. Ethical, even priggish, definitions of “entertainment” could collide with modernist flights of imagination, and yet the two complemented each other in a superior vision of what could be offered to audiences: both at home and throughout the empire. In respect of the latter in particular, however, was the BBC not already in denial of the gathering pace of international change, and working with an already outmoded view of Britain’s capacity to control it?","PeriodicalId":31365,"journal":{"name":"Revue Francaise de Civilisation Britannique","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70598263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La Représentation des jeux de pouvoir par la BBC : l’exemple de la série Yes, (Prime) Minister","authors":"Pierre-François Peirano","doi":"10.4000/rfcb.7121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/rfcb.7121","url":null,"abstract":"Diffusee sur la BBC entre 1980 et 1988, la serie televisee Yes, (Prime) Minister decrivit, sur le ton de la comedie, les conflits dans les hautes spheres de l’Etat. Dans cet article, la representation du monde politique et de la haute administration, dont les interets sont montres comme divergents, seront analysees a la lumiere du contexte de l’epoque et du role joue par les medias, en particulier, la BBC. Si Yes, (Prime) Minister reste le produit de son temps et des debats qui agitaient le Royaume-Uni dans les annees 1980 et les annees precedentes, les qualites d’ecriture de la serie lui conferent aussi un caractere universel, qui renforce l’hypothese de l’independance de la Corporation.","PeriodicalId":31365,"journal":{"name":"Revue Francaise de Civilisation Britannique","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70598084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"BBC Arabic (1938-1995): Soft Power or Reithian Practice Abroad?","authors":"Houcine Msaddek","doi":"10.4000/rfcb.7056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/rfcb.7056","url":null,"abstract":"This article sheds light on the origins and long-term progress of the Arabic Service of the BBC. It is therefore closely concerned with the BBC’s coverage of the particularly sensitive politics of the Middle East since the 1930s and thereby the delicate relationship between the BBC and the British government. The article also shows how the BBC managed to make its Arabic Service an integral part of modern Arab culture and how with the help of skilful broadcasters recruited among the Arab diaspora the Service’s programming testifies to a remarkable history of cultural interchange.","PeriodicalId":31365,"journal":{"name":"Revue Francaise de Civilisation Britannique","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47360912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}