This is the BBC : entertaining the nation, speaking for Britain? 1922-2022 / Simon J. Potter
Founded in 1922, over the last century the BBC has become Britain's most influential broadcaster. Its programmes have been part of everyday life in the UK and around the world, from Its That Man Again to Life on Earth, Doctor Who, and Eastenders, reflecting social change and reshaping our cultu...
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| Hauptverfasser: | Potter, Simon James (VerfasserIn) |
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Veröffentlicht: | Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2022 |
| Ausgabe: | First edition |
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| Internet: | Inhaltsverzeichnis Cover |
| Zusammenfassung: | Founded in 1922, over the last century the BBC has become Britain's most influential broadcaster. Its programmes have been part of everyday life in the UK and around the world, from Its That Man Again to Life on Earth, Doctor Who, and Eastenders, reflecting social change and reshaping our culture. However, the BBC now faces significant challenges, which may even jeopardize its continued existence. This book draws out these issues and looks at how similar threats – including hostile governments, management failures, and transformative new technologies – were met and overcome in the past. For one hundred years the BBC has justified existence on the basis that it speaks to and for the nation, uniting the country and projecting British influence overseas. However, in a more diversed and divided Britain, many questions whether we still need this sort of broadcaster. New global competitors and digital technologies, and deep funding cuts, threaten the Corporation's ability to play its traditional role. By exploring the BBC's past, Potter helps us think more clearly about its future. In the hundredth year of the British Broadcasting Corporation, historian Simon J. Potter looks back over the hundred year history, asking if the BBC is really the 'voice of Britain', and what comes next for British public broadcasting.02022 marks the centenary year of the British Broadcasting Corporation. As Britain's most famous and influential broadcaster, the BBC faces a range of significant challenges to the way it operates, and perhaps to its existence, from the government but also from a rapidly changing media environment. Historian Simon J. Potter explores the hundred year history of this corporation, drawing out the roots of these challenges and understanding how similar threats - hostile politicians and prime0ministers, the advent of television - were met and overcome in the past.0Potter poses the question 'Is the BBC the voice of Britain?', exploring its role in changing wider culture and society, promoting particular versions of British national identity, both at home and overseas. The BBC has long claimed to speak for the British people, to the British people, and with a British accent, and Potter explores how far these claims have been justified with this exciting new study which covers the establishment of the BBC Empire Service and the World Service, and focuses on0people, programmes, and politics to understand the Corporation's engagement with changing ideas about culture and society in Britain, including issues of class, gender, and race |
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| Beschreibung: | Enthält Literaturangaben und ein Register |
| Beschreibung: | viii, 308 Seiten 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780192898524 |
