I’m Sure I Speak For Many Others…

Unpublished letters to the BBC

Colin Shindler

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English

BBC Books
04 June 2023

Film, TV & Radio; Television; Popular culture; Humour collections & anthologies; Gift books

'Dear Mr. Adam, I am writing on behalf of the Central Watch and Social Problems Committee of the Mothers’ Union to ask whether you have a programme in mind on the moral issue of venereal disease.'

'Sir, Where are the B.B.C’s censors? We do not care for the language that was inflicted on us Tuesday night in “The Battle of Britain”. Don’t retort, ‘You need not listen if you don’t want to’. We did not know it was coming.'

'Dear Mr. Frost, Let me start by saying how much I enjoy your programme & that I was among those many who felt almost that they had lost a blowsy old friend when dear & vulgar, but nonetheless thought-provoking and funny TW3 went off the air.'

For anyone who regularly feels tempted to put pen to paper, I’m Sure I Speak For Many Others is an alternative history of the BBC, from its triumphant broadcast of the coronation in 1953, to that Tynan moment, the controversial That Was The Week That Was, and the groundbreaking Grange Hill.

Stretching across over forty years of programming, these never before seen letters represent the joy, the fury and the wit of the nation.

By: Colin Shindler
Imprint: BBC Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 126mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 166g
ISBN: 9781785948527
ISBN 10: 1785948520
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 04 June 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Colin Shindler is a bestselling author, film screenwriter, TV producer and well respected lecturer in the Faculty of History at Cambridge University. His previous books include Sunday Times bestseller National Service, Four Lions, and Manchester United Ruined My Life which was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year prize.