Writing the radio war : literature, politics and the BBC, 1939-1945 /

Wartime British writers took to the airwaves to reshape the nation and the Empire. 'Writing the Radio War' positions the Second World War as a critical moment in the history of cultural mediation in Britain. Through chapters focusing on the middlebrow radicalism of J.B. Priestley, ground-b...

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Main Author: Whittington, Ian
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
Series:Edinburgh critical studies in war and culture.
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