Overview
- Focuses ?on the history and work of the BBC Variety Department from the pre-Variety period until the reorganisation of the BBC’s radio networks
- Explores the work of the Department during the post-war period, so far a significant yet neglected period in time
- Provides insight into key events, personalities, programmes, censorship and anti-American policy
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media (PSHM)
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Book Title: Radio Fun and the BBC Variety Department, 1922—67
Book Subtitle: Comedy and Popular Music on Air
Authors: Martin Dibbs
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95609-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-95608-4Published: 25 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07069-4Published: 31 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-95609-1Published: 17 September 2018
Series ISSN: 2634-6575
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6583
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 298
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Social History, History of World War II and the Holocaust, Cultural History, Journalism