ABSTRACT
Nationwide, in its regular weekday concern to bring its audience ‘some of the more interesting stories of life in today’s Britain’, constantly ‘makes new’ the understanding of national individuality which is its premise. Heath and Skirrow argue:
television is an apparatus used for the production-reproduction of the novelistic; it seems to address the problem of the definition of forms of individual meaning within the limits of existing social representations and their determining social relations, the provision and maintenance of terms of social intelligibility for the individual.
