Examining the ways in which the BBC constructed and disseminated
British national identity during the second quarter of the
twentieth century, this book is the first study that focuses in a
comprehensive way on how the BBC, through its radio programs, tried
to represent what it meant to be British. The BBC and national
identity in Britain offers a revision of histories of regional
broadcasting in Britain that interpret it as a form of cultural
imperialism. The regional organization of the BBC, and the news and
creative programming designed specifically for regional listeners,
reinforced the cultural and historical distinctiveness of Scotland,
Wales, and Northern Ireland. The BBC anticipated, and perhaps
encouraged, the development of the hybrid "dual identities"
characteristic of contemporary Britain. -- .
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