TY  - BOOK
AU  - Potter,Simon James
TI  - This is the BBC: entertaining the nation, speaking for Britain? 1922-2022 
SN  - 9780192898524
U1  - 384.550941 POT.B 23/eng/20220714
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom, New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - British Broadcasting Corporation
KW  - History
KW  - fast
KW  - Television broadcasting
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Télévision
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: The BBC's century -- 1: The Company, 1922-1926 -- 2: The Corporation, 1927-1939 -- 3: Propaganda and war, 1939-1945 -- 4: Losing control, 1945-1959 -- 5: Transformation and stagnation, 1960-1979 -- 6: On the market, 1980-1999 -- 7: At risk, 2000-2022 -- Prospect: The BBC after broadcasting
N2  - 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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