Writing the radio war : literature, politics and the BBC, 1939-1945

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Writing the radio war : literature, politics and the BBC, 1939-1945

Title remainder

literature, politics and the BBC, 1939-1945

Statement of responsibility

Ian Whittington

Creator

• Whittington, Ian

Subject

• British Broadcasting Corporation -- History
• Radio broadcasting -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Radio broadcasting and the war

Language

eng

Summary

Wartime British writers took to the airwaves to reshape the nation and the Empire'Writing the Radio War' positions the Second World War as a critical moment in the history of cultural mediation in Britain. Through chapters focusing on the middlebrow radicalism of J.B. Priestley, ground-breaking works by Louis MacNeice and James Hanley at the BBC Features Department, frontline reporting by Denis Johnston, and the emergence of a West Indian literary identity in the broadcasts of Una Marson, 'Writing the Radio War' explores how these writers capitalised on the particularities of the sonic medium to communicate their visions of wartime and postwar Britain and its empire. By combining literary aesthetics with the acoustics of space, accent, and dialect, writers created aural communities that at times converged, and at times contended, with official wartime versions of Britain and Britishness. --

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• Edinburgh critical studies in war and culture

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Literary form

non fiction

Series statement

Edinburgh critical studies in war and culture