What was the name of the soap about a women's magazine that was on BBC from 1962 to 1965?
"BBC also produced several serials: ""Compact"" was about the staff of a women's magazine; ""The Newcomers"" was about the upheaval caused by a large firm setting up a plant in a small town; ""United!"" contained 147 episodes and focused on a football team; ""199 Park Lane"" (1965) was an upper class serial, which ran for only 18 episodes. None of these serials came close to making the same impact as ""Coronation Street"". Indeed, most of the 1960s BBC serials were largely wiped. During the 1960s, ""Coronation Street""s main rival was ""Crossroads"", a daily serial that began in 1964 and aired"
"All About Soap All About Soap was a fortnightly UK magazine founded in October 1999. It was released on Tuesdays. Storylines of the shows it covers are from soap operas shown in the United Kingdom and from Australia, including ""EastEnders"", ""Coronation Street"", ""Emmerdale"", ""Hollyoaks"", ""Neighbours"" and ""Home and Away"". The magazine launched in 1999 as a sister magazine to ""Inside Soap"" and as a rival to ""Soaplife"" which had taken off just months earlier, the same year. Out of the three leading soap magazines, it is the only one to have featured a celebrity column written by a soap star."
"Nova (UK magazine) Nova, published from March 1965 to October 1975, was a thoughtful glossy title that created its own unique niche in the British consumer magazine market at the very moment when women's hemlines rose six inches above the knee. It has been described as ""a politically radical, beautifully designed, intellectual women's magazine. In 1965 ""Nova"" discussed sex and the Pill, and epitomised the sophistication of London with its bold type and white space."" For its day, Nova's agenda of journalistically taboo subjects included contraception, abortion, cancer, race, homosexuality, divorce and royal affairs, invariably boosted by stylish and provocative"
"of episodes exist in the BBC archive, four out of the original run of 373. (See Wiping.) Compact (TV series) Compact was a British television soap opera shown by the BBC from 1962 to 1965. The series was created by Hazel Adair and Peter Ling, who together subsequently devised ""Crossroads"". In contrast to the kitchen sink realism of ""Coronation Street"", ""Compact"" was a distinctly middle-class serial, set in the more ""sophisticated"" arena of magazine publishing. An early ""avarice"" soap, it took the viewer into the business workplace, and aligned the professional lives of the characters with more personal storylines. The"
"Compact (TV series) Compact was a British television soap opera shown by the BBC from 1962 to 1965. The series was created by Hazel Adair and Peter Ling, who together subsequently devised ""Crossroads"". In contrast to the kitchen sink realism of ""Coronation Street"", ""Compact"" was a distinctly middle-class serial, set in the more ""sophisticated"" arena of magazine publishing. An early ""avarice"" soap, it took the viewer into the business workplace, and aligned the professional lives of the characters with more personal storylines. The show was scheduled for broadcast on Tuesdays and Thursdays, thus avoiding a clash with ITV's ""Coronation Street"""
"famous in publishing circles as a woman's magazine that had more male readers than female, which was an aspect of its financial decline during the economic crisis of the 1970s. The magazine was revived in May 2000, but it lasted just 13 issues, closing with its June 2001 issue. Nova (UK magazine) Nova, published from March 1965 to October 1975, was a thoughtful glossy title that created its own unique niche in the British consumer magazine market at the very moment when women's hemlines rose six inches above the knee. It has been described as ""a politically radical, beautifully designed,"
"The Lady (magazine) The Lady is Britain's longest-running weekly women's magazine. It has been in continuous publication since 1885 and is based in London. It is particularly notable for its classified advertisements for domestic service and child care; it also has extensive listings of holiday properties. The magazine was founded by Thomas Gibson Bowles, the maternal grandfather of the Mitford sisters. Bowles also founded the English magazine ""Vanity Fair"". Bowles gave the Mitford girls' father (David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale) his first job: general manager of the magazine. Early contributors included Nancy Mitford and Lewis Carroll, who compiled a puzzle"
"Mirror"". She has been listed alongside Alison Adburgham of ""The Guardian"" and Ernestine Carter of ""The Sunday Times"" as one of the most influential British-based fashion journalists of the decade. In 1960 ""The Spectator"" reported that Garland had left the ""Mirror"" in order to join British ""Vogue"" as part of a greater change of the magazine's focus away from luxury and exclusivity. After leaving ""Vogue"" in 1964, Garland became Editor-in-Chief of ""Woman's Journal"", at that time the largest women's magazine in the UK. In 1965 she launched ""Man's Journal"", an equivalent publication aimed towards the male reader, with designer Hardy"
"Gems (TV series) Gems is a British television soap opera produced for the ITV network by Thames Television. Three seasons of the programme were transmitted between 1985 and 1988. Devised by Tessa Diamond, who had previously created ITV's first television soap, ""Emergency Ward 10"", ""Gems"" was the name of a fictional fashion design company based in Covent Garden and managed by the Stone brothers, Alan and Stephen, whose differences in outlook and temperament meant that the business was often in choppy waters. The professional problems and personal lives of the employees of the company were the focus of the soap's"
"Woman (UK magazine) Woman is an English weekly magazine launched in 1937. Its target audience is for 30-to 40-year-old women. It encompasses a mix of celebrity gossip and TV news, real-life stories, and fashion and beauty tips. Its lifestyle section offers ideas on homes, interiors and food, product reviews and advice. Odhams Press founded the first colour weekly, ""Woman"" in 1937, for which it set up and operated a dedicated high-speed print works. During World War II the magazine provided a range of fashion tips to cope with clothes rationing as well as recipes to deal with the shortages and"
"inroads into the magazine market. Petticoat (magazine) Petticoat was a British weekly magazine for young women which was published from 1966 - the height of the Swinging Sixties - until 1975, in London by Fleetway/IPC, printed in 40 page issues by Eric Bemrose in Long Lane, Liverpool. Launched by ""Honey"" magazine founder Audrey Slaughter and subtitled 'For the young and fancy free' on its original masthead, ""Petticoat"" responded to the emergence of a more liberal teenager and young woman. From 9-Sep-1967, it absorbed ""Trend"", renaming itself ""Petticoat/Trend"" until it dropped the latter name about a year later. By this time,"
"Emmerdale's Lucy Pargeter (who plays Chas Dingle), Verity Rushworth (Donna Windsor) and Matthew Bose (Paul Lambert) have all written the celebrity column. The magazine also launched the All About Soap Bubble Awards. The magazine had a circulation of 68,487 copies in June 2013. Its circulation was 64,376 copies in February 2014. The magazine's circulation was 34,678 copies in the six months from June to December 2015. After seventeen years, the magazine ceased publication in December 2016. All About Soap All About Soap was a fortnightly UK magazine founded in October 1999. It was released on Tuesdays. Storylines of the shows"
"issues of social exclusion and alienation that most of the media at the time preferred to sweep under the carpet. The best remembered editions of these series are the ""Out of Step"" programme on nudism (the term ""naturism"" had yet to become commonplace), which claimed to show the first naked woman on British television, and the ""People in Trouble"" programme on mixed marriages (a highly sensitive issue at the time as post-war immigrants tentatively began to integrate into British life). They were repeated in 1982 on Channel 4. Another 1958 Farson series, entitled ""Keeping in Step"", looked at establishment institutions"
"and ""Soaplife"", the magazine ran into financial difficulties. Despite the selling of the title to a London company and gaining a readership of 75,000, ""Into Soap"" folded in September 2008. The closure of the publication resulted in job losses, unpaid bills to staff and photographers and Cochrane having to sell his house after filing for bankruptcy. Into Soap Magazine Into Soap Magazine (stylized as ""IntoSoap"") was a fortnightly British magazine covering news, interviews, photos and gossip from the world of British soap opera. It existed between February 2004 and 2008. Branded as a ""glam and sexy new magazine"" the first"
"Petticoat (magazine) Petticoat was a British weekly magazine for young women which was published from 1966 - the height of the Swinging Sixties - until 1975, in London by Fleetway/IPC, printed in 40 page issues by Eric Bemrose in Long Lane, Liverpool. Launched by ""Honey"" magazine founder Audrey Slaughter and subtitled 'For the young and fancy free' on its original masthead, ""Petticoat"" responded to the emergence of a more liberal teenager and young woman. From 9-Sep-1967, it absorbed ""Trend"", renaming itself ""Petticoat/Trend"" until it dropped the latter name about a year later. By this time, its slogan had changed to"
"Your Wardrobe Your Wardrobe was a British television series which aired from 1949 to 1950. While there are virtually no references to the series online, it is notable as an early example of a fashion television series, and an early example of a BBC television programme aired at women. Featuring Margot Lovell and Mary Malcolm, topics varied in the series. Some episodes reflected the affluent nature of early TV set owners, such as an episode which looked into fur coats, while other episodes reflected the austerity of post-war-Britain, with a series of segments on inexpensive clothes which aired for several"
"Jackie (magazine) Jackie was a weekly British magazine for girls. The magazine was published by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd of Dundee from 11 January 1964 until its closure on 3 July 1993—a total of 1534 issues. The name was chosen from a list of girls' names, although it was nearly dropped due to the association with Jackie Kennedy following her husband's assassination in 1963. An urban legend exists that it was named after Jacqueline Wilson who worked there at the time, before she became a notable children's author. Although the author has attempted to perpetuate this claim, this"
"ladies' maids and housekeepers. In Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, a character advertises in ""The Lady"" for a nanny. The Lady (magazine) The Lady is Britain's longest-running weekly women's magazine. It has been in continuous publication since 1885 and is based in London. It is particularly notable for its classified advertisements for domestic service and child care; it also has extensive listings of holiday properties. The magazine was founded by Thomas Gibson Bowles, the maternal grandfather of the Mitford sisters. Bowles also founded the English magazine ""Vanity Fair"". Bowles gave the Mitford girls' father"
"damage can be done to the environment. Emerald Soup Emerald Soup was a 1963 British children's science fiction television series. The series, consisting of seven 25-minute episodes produced by Associated British Corporation for the ITV network, was aired weekly from Saturday 9 November to Saturday 21 December 1963. It conflicted with the initial episodes of the BBC series Doctor Who, also broadcast on Saturdays, which started on 23 November 1963. The series was set in a small rural community, where a group of local children discover a laboratory constructed in the vicinity that is conducting secret radiation tests. The children"
"Emerald Soup Emerald Soup was a 1963 British children's science fiction television series. The series, consisting of seven 25-minute episodes produced by Associated British Corporation for the ITV network, was aired weekly from Saturday 9 November to Saturday 21 December 1963. It conflicted with the initial episodes of the BBC series Doctor Who, also broadcast on Saturdays, which started on 23 November 1963. The series was set in a small rural community, where a group of local children discover a laboratory constructed in the vicinity that is conducting secret radiation tests. The children attempt to stop these tests before any"
"Life in Squares Life in Squares is a British television mini-series that was broadcast on BBC Two from 27 July to 10 August 2015. The title comes from Dorothy Parker's witticism that the Bloomsbury Group, whose lives it portrays, had ""lived in squares, painted in circles and loved in triangles"". The three-part serial centres on the close and often fraught relationship between sisters, Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, and Vanessa’s sexually complicated alliance with gay artist Duncan Grant as they, and their group of like-minded friends, navigate their way through love, sex and artistic life through the first half of"
"and in September 2008 the company announced its closure. Eve (magazine) Eve was an illustrated magazine for women published in London. Not to be confused with ""Eve: The Lady's Pictorial"", a 1920s magazine later merged with ""The Gentlewoman"" and ultimately retitled ""Britannia and Eve"". ""Eve"" was launched by BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, in 2000. Created under a working title Project Urma, the first edition was dated September 2000 and was sold on newsstands from early August 2000. As with much BBC activity at the time, the magazine attracted criticism from those who believed that the broadcaster"
"Into Soap Magazine Into Soap Magazine (stylized as ""IntoSoap"") was a fortnightly British magazine covering news, interviews, photos and gossip from the world of British soap opera. It existed between February 2004 and 2008. Branded as a ""glam and sexy new magazine"" the first issue was launched on 11 February 2004 and featured the following articles: The co-owner and director of ""Into Soap"" was Nick Cochrane, who played Andy McDonald on Coronation Street for 9 years. The company he formed for the publication of the magazine was Treble Media Ltd. However, due to fierce competition from other publications ""Inside Soap"""
"pictures that included pubic hair and full frontal nudity, both of which were considered beyond the bounds of the erotic and in the realm of pornography at the time. In 1965, ""Mayfair"" was launched in the UK in competition to ""Playboy"" and ""Penthouse"". In September 1969 ""Penthouse"" was launched in the U.S., bringing new competition to ""Playboy"". In order to retain its market share ""Playboy"" followed ""Penthouse"" in the display of pubic hair, risking obscenity charges, and launching the ""Pubic Wars"". As competition between the two magazines escalated, their photos became increasingly more explicit. In the late 1960s, some magazines"
"alternatives. In August 1943 the recipes article focused on uses of ""Household milk"", which was how they referred to powdered milk. ""Woman"" is published by TI Media. For the second half of 2013 the circulation of the magazine was 252,239 copies. Woman (UK magazine) Woman is an English weekly magazine launched in 1937. Its target audience is for 30-to 40-year-old women. It encompasses a mix of celebrity gossip and TV news, real-life stories, and fashion and beauty tips. Its lifestyle section offers ideas on homes, interiors and food, product reviews and advice. Odhams Press founded the first colour weekly, ""Woman"""
"Filament (magazine) Filament was a quarterly erotic magazine aimed at women, published in the United Kingdom. It ran for 9 issues, from June 2009 to December 2011. The magazine featured both explicit and non-explicit pornographic imagery of men, designed specifically for heterosexual women (as distinct from that designed for gay men). The magazine claimed to use ""academic and primary research"" in producing its content. Critical reactions to ""Filament"" were varied. Voxpops with women undertaken by New Zealand current affairs programme ""Close Up"" were mixed, and those undertaken by British chat show ""The Wright Stuff"" were mainly negative, though some blogs"
"available on the BBC website. Everywoman (radio programme) Everywoman was a weekly radio magazine programme broadcast on BBC World Service between March 1997 and April 2006. Billed as ""for and about women"", the programme covered a variety of social, political, environmental, and health issues from a woman's viewpoint. Everywoman was regularly presented by Anna Umbima, Jane Garvey, and Shyama Perera. The song ""Agolo"" by Angélique Kidjo, was popularised by its use as the programme's theme tune. Everywoman was axed in October 2005 as part of a shake-up of World Service programming, and ended in April 2006.. Archived episodes of the"
"Spare Rib Spare Rib was a second-wave in the United Kingdom that emerged from the counter culture of the late 1960s as a consequence of meetings involving, among others, Rosie Boycott and Marsha Rowe. ""Spare Rib"" is now recognised as an iconic magazine, which shaped debate about feminism in the UK, and as such it was digitised by the British Library in 2015. ""Spare Rib"" contained new writing and creative contributions which challenged stereotypes and supported collective solutions. The magazine was published between 1972 and 1993. The title derives from the Biblical reference to Eve, the first woman, created from"
"TVTimes TVTimes is a television listings magazine published in the United Kingdom by TI Media. It is known for its access to television actors and their programmes. In 1981 it was briefly rebranded as ""TVTimes Magazine"", the premise being it contained more than simply television listings. In 2006 it was refreshed for a more modern look, increasing its emphasis on big-star interviews and soaps. ""TVTimes"" belongs to TI Media's family of television magazines including ""What's on TV"" and ""TV & Satellite Week"", as well as the soap bi-weekly ""Soaplife"". The magazine was launched on 22 September 1955, at the start"
"Lady Penelope (comic) Lady Penelope was a British weekly comic book magazine for girls which ran from 1966 to 1969. The title character was based on Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward, the secret agent seen in the television series ""Thunderbirds"". Most of the other strips in the comic were also based on popular television shows of the era. Before ""Lady Penelope"" became an independent comic, a strip featuring the title character was one of four colour strips to launch the TV Century 21. It was published while ""Thunderbirds"" was still being made and the script acted as a prelude to the upcoming"
"Inside Soap Inside Soap is a weekly UK magazine, released every Tuesday. It covers current and future storylines in soap operas shown in the United Kingdom. When ""Inside Soap"" was first published in October 1992, it was a monthly magazine. It went on to be published fortnightly in the mid 1990s, before going weekly early in September 2003. The editor has been Steven Murphy since the late 1990s. ""Inside Soap"" traditionally provides interviews from actors who play characters in the soap operas and outlines current storylines; occasionally past storylines are included in featurettes. As of 2009, soaps included in its"
"broadcast in colour. They were shot on 16mm film, sometimes combined with studio discussions or outside broadcasts. The documentary strand covered several stories on sex, the sex industry and exploitation, and in 1967 it broke new ground by showing the first ever bare female breast on British television (""Daily Express""). For its time, ""Man Alive"" tackled many thought-provoking subjects. The programme also faced accusations of sensationalism, however. Writing in ""The Times"" in 2005, Paul Hoggart said ""I had not realised that BBC Two's landmark 1960s documentary strand ""Man Alive"" was accused at the time of cynical sensationalism, with producers rejoicing"
"which were considered beyond the bounds of the erotic and in the realm of pornography at the time. In 1965, ""Mayfair"" was launched in the UK in competition with both ""Playboy"" and ""Penthouse"". As competition between the magazines escalated, their photos became increasingly more explicit. In the late 1960s, magazines began to move into more explicit displays often focusing on the buttocks as standards of what could be legally depicted and what readers wanted to see changed. ""Fiesta"" magazine, first published in 1966 by Galaxy Publications, introduced a ""Readers' Wives Striptease"" section in the early 1970s. This consisted of a"