Golden Age of Wireless (history of Broadcasting in the U.k. Vol 2).
Author: A. BRIGGS
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Published: 1965
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Published: 1965
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Asa Briggs
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1995-03-23
Total Pages: 680
ISBN-13: 9780192129307
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published 1975. Covers the period, 1927-1939, from the BBC's establishment as a public corporation, to the outbreak of war
Author: Asa Briggs
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 688
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 638
ISBN-13: 9780191670015
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is part of a five-volume set on the history of broadcasting in the UK. It provides an exhaustive chronicle of the BBC's activities, achievements and personnel.
Author: Asa Briggs
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 1113
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Martin Conboy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-09-15
Total Pages: 629
ISBN-13: 1317629477
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Routledge Companion to British Media History provides a comprehensive exploration of how different media have evolved within social, regional and national contexts. The 50 chapters in this volume, written by an outstanding team of internationally respected scholars, bring together current debates and issues within media history in this era of rapid change, and also provide students and researchers with an essential collection of comparable media histories. The Routledge Companion to British Media History provides an essential guide to key ideas, issues, concepts and debates in the field. Chapter 40 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315756202.ch40
Author: Kate Murphy
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-28
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1137491736
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBehind the Wireless tells the story of women at the BBC in the 1920s and 30s. Broadcasting was brand new in Britain and the BBC developed without many of the overt discriminatory practices commonplace at the time. Women were employed at all levels, except the very top, for instance as secretaries, documentary makers, advertising representatives, and librarians. Three women held Director level posts, Hilda Matheson (Director of Talks), Mary Somerville (Director of School Broadcasting), and Isa Benzie (Foreign Director). Women also produced the programmes aimed at female listeners and brought women broadcasters to the microphone. There was an ethos of equality and the chance to rise through the ranks from accounts clerk to accompanist. But lurking behind the façade of modernity were hidden inequalities in recruitment, pay, and promotion and in 1932 a marriage bar was introduced. Kate Murphy examines how and why the interwar BBC created new opportunities for women.
Author: M. Taylor
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-11-25
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 1137392592
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAsa Briggs has been a prominent figure in post-war cultural life - as a pioneering historian, a far-sighted educational reformer, and a sensitive chronicler of the way in which broadcasting and communication more generally have shaped modern society. He has also been a devoted servant of the public good, involved in many inquiries, boards and trusts. Yet few accounts of public life in Britain since the Second World War include a discussion or appreciation of his influential role. This collection of essays provides the first critical assessment of Asa Briggs' career, using fresh research and new perspectives to analyse his contribution and impact on scholarship, the expansion of higher education at home and overseas, and his support and leadership for the arts and media more generally. The online bibliography of Asa Briggs' publications which accompanies the book is available on the The Institute of Historical Research website here.
Author: Christopher Stray
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2013-10-16
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 1472538609
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis important collection of essays both contributes to the expanding field of classical reception studies and seeks to extend it. Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain, it looks at a range of different genres (epic, novel, lyric, tragedy, political pamphlet). Within the published texts considered, the usual range of genres dealt with elsewhere is extended by chapters on books for children, and those in which childhood and memories of childhood are informed by antiquity; and also by a multi-genre case study of a highly unusual subject, Spartacus. "Remaking the Classics" also goes beyond books to dramatic performance, and beyond the theatre to radio - a medium of enormous power and influence from the 1920s to the 1960s, whose role in the reception of classics is largely unexplored. The variety of genres and of media considered in the book is balanced both by the focus on Britain in a specific time period, and by an overlap of subject-matter between chapters: the three chapters on twentieth-century drama, for example, range from performance strategies to post-colonial contexts.The book thus combines the consolidation of a field with an attempt to push it in new and exciting directions.
Author: Robert Giddings
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2001-02-14
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 0230596290
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe classic serial, invented by BBC Radio Drama sixty years ago, survived and adapted itself to television, the arrival of colour and the global market in what has become a flood of classics with all channels competing for ratings and overseas sales. This richly detailed book traces these developments and analyses the genre's response to social, economic, technical and cultural changes, which have re-shaped it into the form we recognise today. The book contains considerable interview material with performers and media professionals.