Radio Fun
Philip Purser, 27 June 1991
A Social History of British Broadcasting. Vol. I: 1922-29, Serving the Nation
by Paddy Scannell and David Cardiff.
Blackwell, 441 pp., £30, April 1991,0 631 17543 1 Show More
by Paddy Scannell and David Cardiff.
Blackwell, 441 pp., £30, April 1991,
The Collected Essays of Asa Briggs. Vol. III: Serious Pursuits, Communication and Education
Harvester Wheatsheaf, 470 pp., £30, May 1991,0 7450 0536 5 Show More
Harvester Wheatsheaf, 470 pp., £30, May 1991,
The British Press and Broadcasting since 1945
by Colin Seymour-Ure.
Blackwell, 269 pp., £29.95, May 1991,9780631164432 Show More
by Colin Seymour-Ure.
Blackwell, 269 pp., £29.95, May 1991,
“... be said that for the first half of their first volume of A Social History of British Broadcasting Paddy Scannell and David Cardiff seem scarcely to try. As they tread the well-worn path through the BBC’s approaches – first as a company, then as a corporation – to politics and international affairs and the General Strike and the Abdication crisis ... ”
