Radio Fun and the BBC Variety Department, 1922-67 Comedy and Popular Music on Air /

• Main Author: Dibbs, Martin (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media
• Subjects: Great Britain-History.; Social history.; World War, 1939-1945.; Civilization-History.; Journalism.; History of Britain and Ireland.; Social History.; History of World War II and the Holocaust.; Cultural History.

This book provides a narrative history of the BBC Radio Variety Department exploring, along chronological lines, the workings of, tensions within and the impact of BBC policies on the programme-making department which generated the organisation's largest audiences. It provides an insight into k...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter One: Introduction
• Chapter Two: 1922-1933: Variety before Variety
• Chapter Three: 1933-1939: The Show Begins
• Chapter Four: 1939-1945: 'We will be working under difficulties'
• Chapter Five: 1945-1955: A Golden Age for Radio Comedy
• Chapter Six: 1956-1967: Sound Into Vision: Popular Into Pop
• Chapter Seven: Coda
• Sources and Further Reading
• Index.