1st Edition

Radio Modernisms Features, Cultures and the BBC

Edited By Aasiya Lodhi, Amanda Wrigley Copyright 2020
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

This collection interrogates and stimulates deep, cross-disciplinary engagement with the various understandings and interplays of ‘radio modernisms’ from the early decades of the twentieth century through to the 1950s. Academics from a range of different disciplines explore their common interests in the richness and heterogeneity of BBC Radio’s imaginative programming – in terms of sound;... Read more

1. Introduction: Radio Modernisms: Features, Cultures and the BBC

Aasiya Lodhi and Amanda Wrigley

2. Radio’s Vernacular Modernism: The Schedule as Modernist Text

Kate Lacey

3. Waves: Aestheticism, Radio Drama and Virginia Woolf

Todd Avery

4. BBC Features, Radio Voices and the Propaganda of War 1939–1941

Alex Goody

5. Making Waves: Una Marson’s Poetic Voice at the BBC

Leonie Thomas

6. ‘Countries in the Air’: Travel and Geomodernism in Louis MacNeice’s BBC Features

Aasiya Lodhi

7. Who’s Listening to Modernism? BBC Features and Audience Response

Alexandra Lawrie

8. Intermedial Relationships of Radio Features with Denis Mitchell’s and Philip Donnellan’s Early Television Documentaries

E. Charlotte Stevens and John Wyver

9. Afterlives of BBC Radio Features

Amanda Wrigley

10. Afterword: Radio Modernisms: Features, Cultures and the BBC

David Hendy

Biography

Aasiya Lodhi is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Westminster, UK. She was previously an arts and current affairs producer at BBC Radio 3, Radio 4, and BBC World Service.





Amanda Wrigley is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Film, Theatre and Television at the University of Reading, UK. She is also a Visiting Fellow in the School of Arts and Cultures at the Open University, UK, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.