BBC World Service: Overseas Broadcasting, 1932-2018

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.-

Author: Gordon Johnston, Emma Robertson
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 11/26/2019
Pages: 338
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780230355606

About the Author

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).