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Radio Fun and the BBC Variety Department, 1922—67

Martin Dibbs
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      This book provides a narrative history of the BBC Radio Variety Department exploring, along chronological lines, the workings of, tensions within and the impact of BBC policies on the programme-making department which generated the organisation’s largest audiences. It provides an insight into key events, personalities, programmes, internal politics and trends in popular entertainment, censorship and anti-American policy as they individually or collectively affected the Department. Martin Dibbs examines how the Department's programmes became markers in the daily and weekly lives of millions of listeners, and helped shape the nation's listening habits when radio was the dominant source of domestic entertainment. The book explores events and topics which, while not directly forming part of the Variety Department’s history, nevertheless intersected with or had an impact on it. Such topics include the BBC’s attitude to jazz and rock and roll, the arrival of television with its impact on radio, the pirate radio stations, and the Popular Music and Gramophone Departments, both of whom worked closely with the Variety Department.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Martin Dibbs EAN: 9783319956084 COUNTRY: Switzerland PAGES: WEIGHT: 544 g HEIGHT: 210 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Springer International Publishing AG DATE PUBLISHED: 2018-09-25 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, HISTORY / Social History, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism WIDTH: 148 cm SPINE:

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      Western Europe, Media studies: journalism, European history, Social and cultural history, Second World War

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      Martin Dibbs is an independent scholar and freelance musician. His early education over the airwaves, courtesy of Lord Reith, stimulated a lifelong interest in British radio history. A Londoner by birth, he now lives in the East Neuk of Fife and is currently working on a book about jazz at the BBC.
      This book provides a narrative history of the BBC Radio Variety Department exploring, along chronological lines, the workings of, tensions within and the impact of BBC policies on the programme-making department which generated the organisation’s largest audiences. It provides an insight into key events, personalities, programmes, internal politics and trends in popular entertainment, censorship and anti-American policy as they individually or collectively affected the Department. Martin Dibbs examines how the Department's programmes became markers in the daily and weekly lives of millions of listeners, and helped shape the nation's listening habits when radio was the dominant source of domestic entertainment. The book explores events and topics which, while not directly forming part of the Variety Department’s history, nevertheless intersected with or had an impact on it. Such topics include the BBC’s attitude to jazz and rock and roll, the arrival of television with its impact on radio, the pirate radio stations, and the Popular Music and Gramophone Departments, both of whom worked closely with the Variety Department.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Martin Dibbs EAN: 9783319956084 COUNTRY: Switzerland PAGES: WEIGHT: 544 g HEIGHT: 210 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Springer International Publishing AG DATE PUBLISHED: 2018-09-25 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, HISTORY / Social History, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism WIDTH: 148 cm SPINE:

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      Western Europe, Media studies: journalism, European history, Social and cultural history, Second World War

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      Martin Dibbs is an independent scholar and freelance musician. His early education over the airwaves, courtesy of Lord Reith, stimulated a lifelong interest in British radio history. A Londoner by birth, he now lives in the East Neuk of Fife and is currently working on a book about jazz at the BBC.

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