BBC World Service

Overseas Broadcasting, 1932-2018
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-230-35560-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 338 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 563 g

This book is the first full-length history of the BBC World Service: from its interwar launch as short-wave radio broadcasts for the British Empire, to its twenty-first-century incarnation as the multi-media global platform of the British Broadcasting Corporation. The book provides insights into the BBC’s working relationship with the Foreign Office, the early years of the Empire Service, and the role of the BBC during the Second World War. In following the voice of the BBC through the Cold War and the contraction of the British empire, the book argues that debates about the work and purposes of the World Service have always involved deliberations about the future of the UK and its place in the world. In current times, these debates have been shaped by the British government’s commitment to leave the European Union and the centrifugal currents in British politics which in the longer term threaten the integrity of the United Kingdom. Through a detailed exploration of its past, the bookposes questions about the World Service’s possible future and argues that, for the BBC, the question is not only what it means to be a global broadcaster as we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, but what it means to be a national broadcaster in a divided kingdom.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Robertson, Emma

Johnston, Gordon

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Massenmedien & Massenkommunikation
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Fernsehen & Rundfunk
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Mediengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.    1 From Empire to World Service: an introduction.- 2. The Empire Service and English Language Broadcasting.- 3. The BBC and Foreign Language Broadcasting.- 4. Overseas Broadcasting and the Second World War.- 5. The BBC and the Cold War.- 6. One Voice, Many Accents? The BBC and Empire after the Second World War.- 7. Security, Trust and the Future of the BBC World Service.- 

Über Autor(innen)

Gordon Johnston is Honorary Fellow at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is the editor of Social History .

Emma Robertson is Senior Lecturer in History at La Trobe University, Australia. She is the author of Chocolate, Women and Empire: A Social and Cultural History (2009) and co-author of Rhythms of Labour: Music at Work in Britain (2013).