Simon J Potter

Broadcasting Empire

The BBC and the British World, 1922-1970. Sprache: Englisch.
gebunden , 272 Seiten
ISBN 0199568960
EAN 9780199568963
Veröffentlicht Oktober 2012
Verlag/Hersteller Oxford University Press
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Beschreibung

Examines how, for much of the twentieth century, the BBC supported the British empire, and how it sought to link listeners in Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. Considers the impact of the end of empire on British broadcasting.

Portrait

Simon J. Potter is the author of News and the British World: the Emergence of an Imperial Press System, 1876-1922 (2003), and has published widely on the history of the press and broadcasting in the British empire. He was formerly a Government of Ireland Research Fellow, a Rydon Fellow at the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, London, and a Harold White Fellow at the National Library of Australia.