BBC World Service: Overseas Broadcasting, 1932-2018

by Gordon Johnston and Emma Robertson

Book Overview

This book is the first full-length history of the BBC World Service: from its interwar launch as short-wave radio broadcasts for the British Empire, to its twenty-first-century incarnation as the multi-media global platform of the British Broadcasting Corporation. The book provides insights into the BBC's working relationship with the Foreign Office, the early years of the Empire Service, and the role of the BBC during the Second World War. In following...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349595225
• ISBN13: 9781349595228
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"