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9781472512451

London Calling Britain, the BBC World Service and the Cold War

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    9781472512451

  • ISBN10:

    1472512456

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2014-05-22
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary

From its inception in 1932, overseas broadcasting by the BBC quickly became an essential adjunct to British diplomatic and foreign policy objectives. For this reason, the World Service was considered the primary means of engaging with attitudes and opinions behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. Although funded by government Grant-in-Aid, the Service's editorial independence was enshrined in the BBC's Charter, Licence and Agreement and it is the delicate balance of power that lay in the relations between Whitehall and the World Service during the Cold War as a result that is explored in detail in London Calling.

This book also assesses the nature and impact of the World Service's programmes on listeners living in the Eastern bloc countries. In doing so, it traces the evolution of overseas broadcasting from Britain, alongside the political, diplomatic and fiscal challenges that the country faced right up to the Suez crisis and the 1956 Hungarian uprising. These were defining experiences for the United Kingdom's international broadcaster that, as a consequence, helped shape and define the BBC World Service as we know it today. London Calling is an important study for anyone interested in the media and foreign policy histories of Great Britain or the history of the Cold War more generally.

Author Biography

Alban Webb is Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC) at the Open University, UK. He is also Associate on the Cold War Studies Programme at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction \ Part I - From Total War to Cold War \ 1. Planning for Peace \ 2. The Home Front \ 3. The Cold War Challenge \ Part II - Inter-National Service \ 4. The Imagined Audience \ 5. The Radio Arms Race \ Part III - Global Reach \ 6. Mapping the Cold War \ 7. Austerity Britain \ Part IV - Battlefields \ 8. The Soviet Challenge \ 9. Hungary \ 10. Suez \ Conclusion \ Bibliography \ Index

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