BBC World Service

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Overseas Broadcasting, 1932–2018

Gordon Johnston, Emma Robertson

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English

Palgrave Macmillan
26 November 2019

Radio; British & Irish history; Social & cultural history; Media studies

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.

By: Gordon Johnston, Emma Robertson
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2019 ed.
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
Weight: 580g
ISBN: 9780230355606
ISBN 10: 0230355609
Pages: 338
Publication Date: 26 November 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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).

Reviews for BBC World Service: Overseas Broadcasting, 1932–2018

Johnston and Robertson have marshalled an almost overwhelming amount of archival material into a coherent whole, covering all five continents from 1932 to 2018, whilst still producing a very readable, knowledgeable and engaging account. Archival research is at the heart of this book, with a wide variety of sources fruitfully placed in conversation with each other. ... this volume makes its fascinating history available to a new generation of scholars in an erudite and accessible form. (Emily Oliver, Archives - The Journal of the British Records Association, Vol. 55 (2), 2020)