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Title: Wartime Broadcasting
Condition: New
Author: Mike Brown
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1784422649
EAN: 9781784422646
ISBN: 9781784422646
Publisher: Shire Publications
Genre: History
Topic: Military History, Films & TV
Release Date: 22/02/2018
Description: On 3 September 1939, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain sat tensely at a microphone, using radio to declare that ‘this country is at war with Germany’. During the ensuing wartime years, the BBC was the sole radio broadcaster in Britain, boosting morale through programmes such as ‘ITMA’ and ‘Worker’s Playtime’; helping the Home Front with useful hints and advice; transmitting government messages; and providing news. Personalities and stars became household names – Tommy Handley, Arthur Askey, Ethel and Doris Walters, Mr Middleton – and their catchphrases could be heard everywhere. And yet, as this fascinating book explains, the BBC chose to avoid propaganda, and had to tread a fine line between what the people wanted to hear and what it was felt they should hear.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 210mm
Item Length: 149mm
Item Weight: 148g
Book Series: Shire Library
Release Year: 2018

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