This book brings together for the first time David Morley and Charlotte Brunsdon's classic texts, Everyday Television: Nationwide and The Nationwide Audience. Originally published in 1978 and 1980 these two research projects combine innovative textual readings and audience analysis of the BBC's current affairs programme Nationwide. In a specially written introduction the authors trace the history of the original Nationwide project and clarify the origins of the two books.

This book brings together for the first time David Morley and Charlotte Brunsdon's classic texts Everyday Television: Nationwide and The Nationwide Audience originally published in 1978 and 1980.