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Record Nr.

UNINA9910502624103321

Autore

Plock Vike Martina

Titolo

The BBC German Service during the Second World War : Broadcasting to the Enemy / / by Vike Martina Plock

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021

ISBN

9783030740924

3030740927

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (307 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media, , 2634-6583

Disciplina

384.540943

384.5409410943

Soggetti

Great Britain - History

Europe, Central - History

World War, 1939-1945

Civilization - History

Social history

History of Britain and Ireland

History of Germany and Central Europe

History of World War II and the Holocaust

Cultural History

Social History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Speaking with Hitler -- PART I: PROGRAMMES -- 1. Straight News -- 2. News Talks -- 3. What Women Want: BBC Programmes for Women in Nazi Germany -- 4. Features and Satire -- PART II: PEOPLE -- 5. Voices in Exile: Personality Speakers from Germany -- 6. British Star Speakers -- 7. Enemy Aliens at the BBC -- 8. Monitoring -- 9. Inhaling English -- Epilogue.

Sommario/riassunto

This book, part media history and part group biography, tells the story of the BBC's attempts to reach out to listeners in Nazi Germany at a time when Anglo-German relations were particularly strained. Who were the individuals behind the microphone, whose names could only



be mentioned in whispered conversations on the continent? Who wrote the satirical sketches that offered comic relief to housewives struggling to obtain enough food to feed their families? And who made decisions about programme delivery and staffing? Drawing extensively on previously unexamined archival material, The BBC German Service during the Second World War: Broadcasting to the Enemy sheds light on the complex, often difficult working arrangements at the wartime BBC where people from different nationalities and socio-political backgrounds collaborated and argued about the delivery of an effective propaganda programme that would assist the Allies in defeating the Nazis. Vike Martina Plock is Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Exeter. She is the author of Joyce, Medicine and Modernity (2010) and Modernism, Fashion and Interwar Women Writers (2017). She is co-editor of Literature & History and advisory editor of the James Joyce Quarterly. .