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Title: THE HISTORY OF BROADCASTING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM: VOLUME II: THE GOLDEN AGE OF WIRELESS
By: Asa Briggs
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 0192129309
ISBN 13: 9780192129307
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Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 23 March, 1995
Series: History of Broadcasting
Pages: 654
Description: This is the second of a five-volume history of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom. This volume covers the period 1927-1939, from the BBC's establishment as a public corporation to the outbreak of war. During this time wireless was seen as a part of home-life, and this volume discusses the extension and enrichment of the activity of broadcasting, with chapters on programmes, the listeners and their needs, and the coming of television.
Synopsis: This is the second part of a projected four-volume history of broadcasting in the United Kingdom. This volume covers the period from the beginning of 1927, when the BBC ceased to be a private company and became a public corporation, up to the outbreak of war in 1939. The acceptance of wireless as a part of the homely background of life and the acceptance of the BBC as the 'natural' institution for controlling it distinguish this period from that covered in the earlier volume. From 1927 to 1939 the system of public control which had evolved from the early struggles was never seriously in jeopardy and the one big official inquiry, the Ullswater Report, favoured no major constitutional changes. The main theme of the second volume, therefore, may be called the extension and the enrichment of the activity of broadcasting.Different chapters deal with the programmes and programme-makers; the listeners and the ways in which their needs were (or were not) met as the system expanded; public attitudes to the BBC and the increasing complexity of its control and organization; the coming of television and the early experiments of Baird and others; and the retirement of Sir John Reith - not only the end of a regime but the end of an era. The volume ends with preparations for war.
Illustrations: 20 pp black and white plates, illustrations throughout
Publication: UK
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Returns: Returnable
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