Popular Culture
- The bridge is a distinctive landmark, used as a symbol of Bristol on postcards, promotional materials, and informational web sites such as Visit Bristol. BBC West uses a clip of the bridge in their opening titles for their regional news programme BBC Points West which serves the West TV region.
- The bridge is also used as a backdrop on The West Country Tonight - a regional news programme broadcast by ITV West from their Bristol studios.
- Construction of the bridge was featured in the Channel 4 television series The Worst Jobs in History, as part of an episode entitled The Worst Industrial Jobs in History, first broadcast on 7 May 2006.
- In 2011, the bridge featured in the BBC2 programme "Climbing Great Buildings" - when Dr Jonathan Foyle and Lucy Creamer climbed the bridge and went into the bridge supports.
- The bridge was prominently used in many episodes of the BBC programme, Casualty, whilst the programme was produced in Bristol for 25 years. In December 2011, the bridge was featured in the ending scenes of the last ever Bristol-made edition of the BBC's Casualty (TV series) programme.
- The bridge played an important role in the Doctor Who Eighth Doctor Adventures novel Reckless Engineering, when the Eighth Doctor arrived in a world where history had been changed, the presence of the bridge- constructed at least two decades prior to when it should have been in this reality- helping the Doctor determine how history had been altered and plan how to set it back to normal accordingly.
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“Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Resorts advertised for waitresses, specifying that they “must appear in short clothes or no engagement.” Below a Gospel Guide column headed, “Where our Local Divines Will Hang Out Tomorrow,” was an account of spirited gun play at the Bon Ton. In Jeff Winney’s California Concert Hall, patrons “bucked the tiger” under the watchful eye of Kitty Crawhurst, popular “lady” gambler.”
—Administration in the State of Colo, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Cynicism makes things worse than they are in that it makes permanent the current condition, leaving us with no hope of transcending it. Idealism refuses to confront reality as it is but overlays it with sentimentality. What cynicism and idealism share in common is an acceptance of reality as it is but with a bad conscience.”
—Richard Stivers, U.S. sociologist, educator. The Culture of Cynicism: American Morality in Decline, ch. 1, Blackwell (1994)