“A Claim to Be Heard”: Voices of Ordinary People in BBC Radio Features

The BBC radio feature, originally influenced by the documentary film movement, combined music and sound with speech that at first was scripted, later recorded on location, along with ‘actuality’. This paper will ask ‘whose speech?’ A memorandum from BBC Director General, John Reith, in 1924, had ins...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Peter M. Lewis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherche et d'Etudes en Civilisation Britannique 2020-12-01
Series:Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique
Subjects:
BBC
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/rfcb/7681