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BBC World Service - Overseas Broadcasting, 1932-2018 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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BBC World Service - Overseas Broadcasting, 1932-2018 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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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 book poses 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.
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