The BBC : a century on air / David Hendy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hendy, David, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television broadcasting--Great Britain--History.

Television broadcasting.

Radio broadcasting--Great Britain--History.

Radio broadcasting.

Broadcast journalism--Great Britain--History.

Broadcast journalism.

Social history--20th century.

Social history.

Social history--21st century.

British Broadcasting Corporation--History.

British Broadcasting Corporation.

British Broadcasting Company--History.

British Broadcasting Company.

Great Britain.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 638 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First US edition.

Other Title:

British Broadcast Corporation : a century on air

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : PublicAffairs, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, 2022.

Summary:

"The first in-depth history of the iconic radio and TV network that has shaped our past and present. Doctor Who; tennis from Wimbledon; the Beatles and the Stones; the coronation of Queen Elizabeth and the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales: for one hundred years, the British Broadcasting Corporation has been the preeminent broadcaster in the UK and around the world, a constant source of information, comfort, and entertainment through both war and peace, feast and famine. The BBC has broadcast to over two hundred countries and in more than forty languages. Its history is a broad cultural panorama of the twentieth century itself, often, although not always, delivered in a mellifluous Oxford accent. With special access to the BBC's archives, historian David Hendy presents a dazzling portrait of a unique institution whose cultural influence is greater than any other media organization. Mixing politics, espionage, the arts, social change, and everyday life, The BBC is a vivid social history of the organization that has provided both background commentary and screen-grabbing headlines--woven so deeply into the culture and politics of the past century that almost none of us has been left untouched by it"--The publisher

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. Crucible

1. Making a New World

2. Riding the Tiger

3. Professionals

4. Us and Them

5. Stardust

II. War

6. Under Siege

7. London Calling

8. Turning the Tide

III. Consensus and Conflict

9. A Bomb About to Burst

10. Building Pyramids

11. Strangers

12. The Shock of the New

IV. Attack and Defence

13. Trade and Treachery

14. The Expanding Labyrinth

15. On the Rack.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 572-606) and index.

Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain in 2022 by Profile Book Ltd.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781610397049

1610397045

OCLC:

1305300561

Publisher Number:

99991194434