BBC World Service : overseas broadcasting, 1932 -2018 / Gordon Johnston, Emma Robertson.
2019
HE8697.45.G7
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Title
BBC World Service : overseas broadcasting, 1932 -2018 / Gordon Johnston, Emma Robertson.
Author
Johnston, Gordon.
ISBN
9781137318558 (electronic book)
1137318554 (electronic book)
9780230355606
0230355609
1137318554 (electronic book)
9780230355606
0230355609
Publication Details
London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Language
English
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1 online resource
Item Number
10.1057/978-1-137-31
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HE8697.45.G7
Dewey Decimal Classification
070.4
Summary
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 BBCs 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 governments 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 book poses questions about the World Services 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.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.