Initially created to counteract broadcasts from Nazi Germany, the
BBC’s Eastern Service became a cauldron of global modernism and
an unlikely nexus of artistic exchange. Directed at an educated
Indian audience, its programming provided remarkable moments:
Listeners in India heard James Joyce reading from Finnegans Wake on
the eve of independence, as well as the literary criticism of E. M.
Forster and the works of Indian writers living in London. In Radio
Empire, Daniel Ryan Morse demonstrates the significance of the
Eastern Service for global Anglophone literature and literary
broadcasting. He traces how modernist writers used radio to
experiment with form and introduce postcolonial literature to
global audiences. While innovative authors consciously sought to
incorporate radio’s formal features into the novel, literature
also exerted a reciprocal and profound influence on
twentieth-century broadcasting. Reading Joyce and Forster alongside
Attia Hosain, Mulk Raj Anand, and Venu Chitale, Morse demonstrates
how the need to appeal to listeners at the edges of the empire
pushed the boundaries of literary work in London, inspired
high-cultural broadcasting in England, and formed an invisible but
influential global network. Adding a transnational perspective to
scholarship on radio modernism, Radio Empire demonstrates how the
history of broadcasting outside of Western Europe offers a new
understanding of the relationship between colonial center and
periphery.
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