1. See S. Hall, ‘Television as a Medium and its Relation to Culture’, Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Stencilled Occasional Paper, 1971. Hall argued: ‘The utopia of straight transmission, or the “naturalist fallacy” in television, is not only an illusion. It’s a dangerous deception’ (p. 97). See also J. Fiske and J. Hartley, Reading Television (London: Methuen, 1978), p. 24.
2. See S. Malik, Representing Black Britain: A History of Black and Asian Images on British Television (London: Sage, 2002), p. 10, 24 and 173.
3. See Malik, Representing Black Britain, D. Newton, Paving the Empire Road: BBC Television and Black Britons (Manchester University Press, 2011),
4. J. Pines (ed.), Black and White in Colour: Black People in British Television since 1936 (London: BFI, 1992),
5. S. Bourne, Black in the British Frame: The Black Experience in British Film and Television (London: Continuum, 2001),