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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"BBC Written Archives"”.
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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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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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Secondary education in BBC Broadcast 1944–1965: drawing out networks of conversation and visions of reform
… in non-fiction British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) programmes in the twenty-one years that followed the 1944 Education Act. The primary sources drawn on for this study include the surviving microfilmed radio scripts, dating from 1944–1965 and held at the BBC Written Archives (BBC WAC). The …
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Secondary Education in BBC Broadcast 1944–1965: drawing out networks of conversation and visions of reform
… in non-fiction British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) programmes in the twenty-one years that followed the 1944 Education Act. The primary sources drawn on for this study include the surviving microfilmed radio scripts, dating from 1944–1965 and held at the BBC Written Archives (BBC WAC). The …
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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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"""The ineffable moments will be harder won"": the genesis, compositional process, and early performance history of Michael Tippett's The Heart's Assurance"
… Priaulx Rainier, and documents within the BBC Written Archives, shed further light on the cycle’s genesis. The majority of scholarship on Tippett focuses on his larger orchestral and operatic works. This study reveals why scrutiny of The Heart’s Assurance, clearly a smaller genre, is …