The Radio Front: The BBC and the Propaganda War 1939-45

Within 17 years of the first ever public broadcast in the UK, Britain again found itself at war. From humble, or ‘tedious’ beginnings broadcasting to localities during those early years, the Home Office and the BBC suddenly awakened to the potential wartime benefits of public radio. Behind the curtains of a million blacked-out homes the Home Service sought to keep the nation informed, upbeat and entertained. When Radio Came of Age examines the relationship between the government, the corpor...