'Political Fantasy in a Realistic Situation': The Scotch on the Rocks (BBC 1973) Controversy
'Political Fantasy in a Realistic Situation': The Scotch on the Rocks (BBC 1973) Controversy
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“现实情境中的政治幻想”：加冰威士忌（BBC 1973）争议
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10.1080/14714787.2017.1396915
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2017
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Hill J
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苏格兰威士忌是一部由BBC 1台于1973年5月和6月播出的五集电视剧。它涉及到建立一个独立的苏格兰的举措，被英国广播公司称为“现实情况下的政治幻想”。该系列是根据道格拉斯赫德，当时的保守党首相泰德希思的政治秘书合写的小说，并成为一个运行的运动和苏格兰民族党的正式投诉的对象。英国广播公司节目投诉委员会维持了这一投诉，结果该节目再也没有重播，而且很长一段时间内被认为已经被销毁（尽管现在发现存在三集）。虽然该方案的实际消失使其在某些方面具有一定程度的神秘性，但迄今为止，对它或它所引起的争议几乎没有进行认真的讨论。本文填补了这一空白，通过检查的政治和广播环境中，该计划的制作，针对它的批评和好奇的意识形态紧张局势明显在系列本身。在这样做的时候，文章确定了特殊的位置，该系列在苏格兰电视剧的历史中占据，并表明它如何可能被理解为一个更大的兴趣比迄今为止被承认的工作。
Scotch on the Rockswas a five-part drama series broadcast by BBC1 in May and June 1973. It dealt with moves towards the creation of an independent Scotland and was referred to as a ‘political fantasy in a realistic situation’ by the BBC. The series was based on a novel co-written by Douglas Hurd, then political secretary to Conservative Prime Minister Ted Heath, and became the object of a running campaign and formal complaint by the Scottish National Party. This complaint was upheld by the BBC Programmes Complaints Commission with the result that the programme was never repeated and for a long time was believed to have been destroyed (though three episodes have now been discovered to exist). Although the programme’s effective disappearance has imbued it with a degree of mystique in certain quarters, there has so far been little serious discussion of it or the controversy that it generated. This article fills that gap by examining the political and broadcasting contexts in which the programme was produced, the criticisms directed at it and the curious ideological tensions evident in the series itself. In doing so, the article identifies the peculiar position that the series occupies within the history of Scottish television drama and indicates how it may be understood as a work of greater interest than has so far been acknowledged.