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Showing 1 to 20 of 164 for “"BBC"”.
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BBC Radio 4's Anaylsis, 1970-1983
… and written archives and interviews with former BBC staff, examines the BBC Radio 4 current affairs programme, Analysis between the years 1970 and 1983. It addresses a number of questions about the programme, including the precise reasons for its creation, how it evolved, and how it covered a …
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The BBC and European integration, c. 1945-1975
The BBC was the most prominent media organisation in Britain between 1945 and 1975. Listened to and watched by huge audiences, the facts and opinions broadcast in its programmes defined national debates. In the formative years for European integration, an issue that would prove divisive between and …
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The BBC Polish Service during World War II
Despite considerable interest in the BBC European Service and the role of transnational broadcasting during the Second World War, surprisingly little attention has hitherto been paid to the BBC Polish language broadcasts. As the first full length academic study of the wartime BBC Polish Service, …
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Creativity management in original television production at the BBC
… managed in original television production at the BBC, and to that end, it seeks to make an original contribution to both organisational creativity management and television production discourses. The thesis offers an extensive literature review that connects cultural production, television …
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Mediating the Past: BBC Radio Archaeology Broadcasting, 1922-1966.
The advent of BBC radio broadcasting in 1922 created a new opportunity for communicating archaeology. Accessing archive material from the BBC Written Archives at Caversham, and referencing scholarship from the disciplines of media research, archaeological historiography and public history, the …
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BBC TV's Panorama, conflict coverage and the 'Westminster consensus'.
The BBC's 'flagship' current affairs series Panorama, occupies a central place in Britain's television history and yet, surprisingly, it is relatively neglected in academic studies of the medium. Much that has been written focuses on Panorama's coverage of armed conflicts (notably Suez, Northern …
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A history of BBC local radio in England: c1960 – 1980
The story of BBC Local Radio in England, from the days of its conception around 1960, through to the launch of the first stations in 1967 and the finalisation of how to complete the chain in 1980 is a neglected area of research in media history. This thesis tells this story, using previously …
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The 'responsible' woman: the BBC and women's radio 1945-1955
The BBC's women's radio in the British post-war period (1945 – 1955) is still a very much neglected area of historical research, although the BBC after the Second World War continued to produce many talks and programmes that were specifically aimed at women, such as the factual Woman’s Hour (1946) …
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BBC School Broadcasting, Progressivism in Education and Literacy 1957-1979
This thesis accounts for the history of BBC television and radio programmes made for use in schools, their relationship with educational progressivism, and the application of linguistic theory to literacy programmes in the period 1957-1979. School broadcasting has been neglected by the disciplines …
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The production of religious broadcasting: the case of the BBC
… subject of religion and its treatment within the BBC as a microcosm to unpack some of the dilemmas of contemporary broadcasting. In recent years religious programmes have evolved in both form and content leading to what some observers claim is a “renaissance” in religious broadcasting. However, …
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A church and family housing for Berkland Baptist Church (BBC)
… part of actual living. Berkland Baptist Church (BBC) is one of the leading churches that address to return to the spirit of early churches where religious life and daily life are fully integrated. This thesis, thus, explores a new concept of what a built form of a church would be. The final …
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Television sitcom production at the BBC 1973-1984: an integrated approach
Between 1973 and 1984 BBC Television produced and transmitted a number of popular situation comedies. These were designed to be light-hearted, inoffensive entertainment, but they nevertheless explored, reflected and reinforced changing public attitudes to private sexual behaviour. Central to the …
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Realizing animals at the BBC : new media technology and wildlife documentary
… Firstly, it presents a rigorous account of the BBC's central role in the construction of wildlife documentary in Britain. It examines both how and why the BBC had such an important role in the development of this genre, and why depictions of wildlife have been so important to the BBC's evolving …
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Delivering a Public Service? The BBC Asian Network and British Asian audiences.
… how minority ethnic producers employed by the BBC Asian Network, the BBC’s only ethnic specific digital radio station, construct a distinctive audience for the broadcaster. The study looks at the challenges, barriers and conflicts that have emerged as a consequence of BBC strategic attempts to …
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Media consumption amid contestation: Northern Nigerians’ engagement with the BBC World Service
… of the long-term relationship between the BBC World Service and its mainly Muslim Northern Nigerian audiences. It broadly explores the pattern and consequences of Northern Nigerians’ interactions with international media, focusing particularly on their engagement with the BBC World Service. …
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Networks of Nature: Stories of Natural History Film-making at the BBC
… and radio producer Desmond Hawkins. By 1997 the BBC's Natural History Unit has established a global reputation for wildlife films, providing a keystone of the BBC's public service broadcasting charter, playing an important strategic role in television scheduling and occupying a prominent position …
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Representations of Housewife Identity in BBC Home Front Radio Broadcasts, 1939-1945
… examines women’s gender identity as present in BBC radio programmes aimed at housewives, specifically broadcasts that dealt with rationing and cooking. Broadcasts regularly emphasized women’s ingenuity and ability to cook nutritious meals using limited food options while also devaluing women’s …
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