“It's nice to watch television but it's even nicer when you've got a drink in your hand,' Gregory Ratcliffe, a Birmingham shopkeeper, told Reynolds News. 'Makes it more intimate somehow. Gives you the feeling that you're in a posh cabaret.” HomeTelevisionDrinkingAspirationBritainFifties Book:Modernity Britain: Opening the Box, 1957-59 Source: Modernity Britain: Opening the Box, 1957-59