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GtrsRGr8 · 05-17-2021, 02:31 PM

Palgrave Macmillan's Deal of the Day is BBC World Service
Overseas Broadcasting, 1932–2018. Regularly priced $79.99, it's only $9.99 today. That's nearly 88% off.

Description, courtesy of Palgrave Macmillan:
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 the voice of the BBC through the Cold War and the contraction of the British empire, the book argues that debates about the work and purposes of the World Service have always involved deliberations about the future of the UK and its place in the world. In current times, these debates have been shaped by the British government’s commitment to leave the European Union and the centrifugal currents in British politics which in the longer term threaten the integrity of the United Kingdom. Through a detailed exploration of its past, the book poses questions about the World Service’s possible future and argues that, for the BBC, the question is not only what it means to be a global broadcaster as we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, but what it means to be a national broadcaster in a divided kingdom.

Despite being one of the colonists

, I still find the subject intriguing. Maybe I'll find a kindred spirit. I am particularly interested in the BBC's work in World War II (the chapter devoted to that is 58 pages long), and just prior to it. Others may be more interested in discussion of the impact of the much more recent Brexit upon the BBC, or other topics.

338 pages. Available in both ePub and PDF.

Grab it here.

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GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	Palgrave Macmillan's Deal of the Day is BBC World Service Overseas Broadcasting, 1932–2018. Regularly priced $79.99, it's only $9.99 today. That's nearly 88% off. Description, courtesy of Palgrave Macmillan: 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 the voice of the BBC through the Cold War and the contraction of the British empire, the book argues that debates about the work and purposes of the World Service have always involved deliberations about the future of the UK and its place in the world. In current times, these debates have been shaped by the British government’s commitment to leave the European Union and the centrifugal currents in British politics which in the longer term threaten the integrity of the United Kingdom. Through a detailed exploration of its past, the book poses questions about the World Service’s possible future and argues that, for the BBC, the question is not only what it means to be a global broadcaster as we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, but what it means to be a national broadcaster in a divided kingdom. Despite being one of the colonists , I still find the subject intriguing. Maybe I'll find a kindred spirit. I am particularly interested in the BBC's work in World War II (the chapter devoted to that is 58 pages long), and just prior to it. Others may be more interested in discussion of the impact of the much more recent Brexit upon the BBC, or other topics. 338 pages. Available in both ePub and PDF. Grab it here. Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 05-17-2021 at 02:38 PM.