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