ISBN:
9042009780
Language:
English
Pages:
XV, 250 S.
Year of publication:
2003
Series Statement:
Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies 5.2003
DDC:
384.54
Keywords:
BBC German Service History
;
Congresses
;
Radio broadcasting Germany
;
Great Britain
;
History
;
Congresses
;
Konferenzschrift 2002
;
British Broadcasting Corporation
;
Hörfunksendung
;
Deutsch
Abstract:
The essays contained in this volume were originally delivered as papers to a conference on the German-language broadcasting of the BBC, held in London in 2002. For over sixty years, the BBC German Service was Britain's most authoritative voice to the German-speaking world, representing a virtual paradigm of British cultural and political attitudes towards Germany and Austria - and helping to define their perceptions of Britain and the British. Despite the BBC's enormous cultural standing and influence, however, this volume is the first to evaluate the Corporation's German-language broadcasting since the BBC German Service was closed down in 1999. The essays fall into three broad categories: German-language broadcasting during the Second World War, broadcasting to Germany and Austria during the Cold War, and finally a series of personal accounts from former employees of the Service.
Note:
Enth. Literaturangaben und ein Register
,
Beitr. teilw. in dt., teilw. in engl.
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