Radio Four has been described as "the greatest broadcasting channel in the world", "the heartbeat of the BBC", and a cultural icon of Britishness. In this first major behind-the-scenes account of the station's history, David Hendy draws on the BBC's vast archives and interviews with key personnel to tell the compelling inside stories behind its best-loved programs like Today, The Archers, Gardeners' Question Time , and the Shipping Forecast. From its birth in 1967, Hendy explores the station's struggle to justify itself in ...
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Radio Four has been described as "the greatest broadcasting channel in the world", "the heartbeat of the BBC", and a cultural icon of Britishness. In this first major behind-the-scenes account of the station's history, David Hendy draws on the BBC's vast archives and interviews with key personnel to tell the compelling inside stories behind its best-loved programs like Today, The Archers, Gardeners' Question Time , and the Shipping Forecast. From its birth in 1967, Hendy explores the station's struggle to justify itself in a television age amid passionate disputes with its fiercely loyal listeners. A kaleidoscopic view of the changing nature of the BBC, this book provides a gripping insight into the very nature of British life and culture in the last decades of the twentieth century.
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