The BBC and National Identity in Britain, 1922-53
Thomas Hajkowski
Abstract
Examining the ways in which the BBC constructed and disseminated British national identity during the second quarter of the twentieth century, this book focuses in a comprehensive way on how the BBC, through its radio programmes, tried to represent what it meant to be British. It offers a revision of histories of regional broadcasting in Britain that interpret it as a form of cultural imperialism. The regional organisation of the BBC, and the news and creative programming designed specifically for regional listeners, reinforced the cultural and historical distinctiveness of Scotland, Wales and ... More
Keywords: BBC, British national identity, radio programmes, regional broadcasting, cultural imperialism, dual identities, nationalism, British imperialism, mass media, media history
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2010 | Print ISBN-13: 9780719079443 |
| Published to Manchester Scholarship Online: July 2012 | DOI:10.7228/manchester/9780719079443.001.0001 |
