In The Media
Williams has been a fixture of the British media for decades, and is indeed one of the most quotable politicians of the past 50 years. Williams also hosted in the early 1980s BBC TV's Shirley Williams in Conversation. She started her career soon after graduating university as a journalist, working firstly for the Daily Mirror and then for the Financial Times.
Williams also has appeared more than any other panellist on the BBC political talk show Question Time; most recently on 8 November 2012 in Bexhill.
In the fictional comic strip Invasion!, set in 1999 and first appearing in 1977, Shirley Williams was depicted as the Prime Minister, before being killed by the invading Volgans in the first episode. References are made to this event (and Williams's premiership) in later episodes, notably the recent reboot of the strip set in 2004, where Williams is still mentioned as having been the PM at the time of the invasion and is venerated to some extent by the resistance.
On Brian Eno's 1977 Before and After Science album, guest musician Robert Wyatt is credited for his percussion contributions under the pseudonym Shirley Williams.
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“Never before has a generation of parents faced such awesome competition with the mass media for their children’s attention. While parents tout the virtues of premarital virginity, drug-free living, nonviolent resolution of social conflict, or character over physical appearance, their values are daily challenged by television soaps, rock music lyrics, tabloid headlines, and movie scenes extolling the importance of physical appearance and conformity.”
—Marianne E. Neifert (20th century)