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Revisiting Transnational Broadcasting: The BBC's foreign-language services during the Second World War book cover

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Revisiting Transnational Broadcasting The BBC's foreign-language services during the Second World War

Edited By Nelson Ribeiro, Stephanie Seul Copyright 2017
124 Pages
by Routledge

124 Pages
by Routledge

124 Pages
by Routledge
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Presenting a collection of original chapters, this book reassesses the history of the BBC foreign-language services prior to, and during, the Second World War. The communication between the British government and foreign publics by way of mass media constituted a fundamental, if often ignored, aspect of Britain’s international relations. From the 1930s onwards, transnational broadcasting – that... Read more

Introduction – Revisiting Transnational Broadcasting: The BBC’s Foreign-Language Services During the Second World War Stephanie Seul and Nelson Ribeiro

1. ‘Plain, Unvarnished News’? The BBC German Service and Chamberlain’s Propaganda Campaign Directed at Nazi Germany, 1938-1940 Stephanie Seul

2. BBC Portuguese Service During World War II: Praising Salazar While Defending the Allies Nelson Ribeiro

3. Pawns in a Chess Game: The BBC Spanish Service During the Second World War Gloria García González

4. Our Enemy’s Enemy: Selling Britain to Occupied France on the BBC French Service Kay Chadwick

5. Repatriated Germans and ‘British Spirit’: The Transfer of Public Service Broadcasting to Northern Post-War Germany (1945-1950) Hans-Ulrich Wagner

6. The BBC Polish Service During the Second World War Agnieszka Morriss

7. Broadcasting by the Czechoslovak Exile Government in London, 1939-1945 Erica Harrison

Biography

Nelson Ribeiro is an Assistant Professor at the Catholic University of Portugal in Lisbon, where he is the Coordinator for Communication Studies. He is a member of the Board at the Research Centre for Communication & Culture, and vice-chair of the Communication History Section at ECREA.

Stephanie Seul is Lecturer in Media History in the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Bremen, Germany, and a member of the editorial board of Media History.

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