Books by Gordon Johnston
“From 1938, the BBC simultaneously operated as Britain’s broadcaster for audiences in the UK and as the voice of Britain overseas. Johnson and Robertson’s book is good at reminding us of this very bizarre fact. The organization that viewers and listeners in Britain see as their broadcaster, as primarily providing programmes for them, is also an enormous transnational media operator, projecting British soft power and propaganda.” Read more...
Simon J. Potter, Historian
Interviews where books by Gordon Johnston were recommended
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Network Nations: A Transnational History of British and American Broadcasting
by Michele Hilmes -
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Paving the Empire Road: BBC television and Black Britons
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Behind the Wireless: A History of Early Women at the BBC
by Kate Murphy -
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BBC World Service: Overseas Broadcasting, 1932-2018
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London Calling: Britain, the BBC World Service and the Cold War
by Alban Webb
The best books on The BBC, recommended by Simon J. Potter
The best books on The BBC, recommended by Simon J. Potter
The British Broadcasting Corporation celebrates its centenary this year. The beloved institution has always had a paradoxical identity: part monopoly and government organ, part commercial enterprise and government critic; part bringer of change, part defender of the status quo. Here Simon Potter, Professor of Modern History at the University of Bristol, talks us through the history and the transformations the BBC has undergone since it was first founded in 1922.
