Timewatch · SEASON 7
Wars of the Word
Episode 2 · 1988-02-03
- Documentary
Episode overview
The control of national television is seen by regimes the world over as a necessary adjunct to their survival today. Peter France presents two films about the control and effect of mass communications in other times. The first tells the story of the financial control of the political press by the establishment in early 19th-century Britain, and the second the psychological power of a dramatic radio broadcast in the USA 100 years later, when the young Orson Welles petrified a nation.
50 minutes
Season 7 episodes
1. Evidence of Neglect1988-01-06
2. Wars of the Word1988-02-03
3. The Man in the Iron Mask1988-03-02
4. The Hunger Winter1988-03-30
5. Dishonour and Death1988-06-01
6. Verdict on the Shroud1988-07-27
7. Shadow of the Ripper1988-09-07
8. A Woman's Story1988-10-05
9. Visions of a Conqueror: The Glorious Revolution1988-11-09
10. Bukharin and the Terror1988-12-07
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