The BBC German Service during the Second World War : broadcasting to the enemy / Vike Martina Plock.
Plock, Vike Martina, author.
2021
D799.G7 P56 2021
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Title The BBC German Service during the Second World War : broadcasting to the enemy / Vike Martina Plock.
Author Plock, Vike Martina, author.
ISBN 9783030740924 (electronic bk.)
3030740927 (electronic bk.)
9783030740917
3030740919
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74092-4
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 293 pages) : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-74092-4 doi
Call Number D799.G7 P56 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 384.5409410943
Summary This book, part media history and part group biography, tells the story of the BBCs attempts to reach out to listeners in Nazi Germany at a time when Anglo-German relations were particularly strained. Who were the individuals behind the microphone, whose names could only be mentioned in whispered conversations on the continent? Who wrote the satirical sketches that offered comic relief to housewives struggling to obtain enough food to feed their families? And who made decisions about programme delivery and staffing? Drawing extensively on previously unexamined archival material, The BBC German Service during the Second World War: Broadcasting to the Enemy sheds light on the complex, often difficult working arrangements at the wartime BBC where people from different nationalities and socio-political backgrounds collaborated and argued about the delivery of an effective propaganda programme that would assist the Allies in defeating the Nazis. Vike Martina Plock is Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Exeter. She is the author of Joyce, Medicine and Modernity (2010) and Modernism, Fashion and Interwar Women Writers (2017). She is co-editor of Literature & History and advisory editor of the James Joyce Quarterly.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 21, 2021).
Series Palgrave studies in the history of the media.
Available in Other Form BBC GERMAN SERVICE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR.
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Introduction: Speaking with Hitler
Part I. Programmes. Straight news
Sonderberichte : German news talks
What women want : BBC programmes for women in Germany
Features and satire
Part II. People. Voices in exile : German personality speakers
The voice of England : British personality speakers
Enemy aliens
Monitoring
Inhaling English : listeners in Germany
Epilogue.

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