‘Torture, treacle, tears and trickery’: Celebrities, ‘Ordinary’ People, and this is your life (BBC, 1955–65)

Stardom and celebrity: A reader

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 156-170

  Holmes, Su ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781446269534.n16     Document Type: Chapter

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