History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom: Volume II: The Golden Age of Wireless

by Asa Briggs

This is the second part of a projected four-volume history of broadcasting in the United Kingdom.

This volume covers the period from the beginning of 1927, when the BBC ceased to be a private company and became a public corporation, up to the outbreak of war in 1939. The acceptance of wireless as a part of the homely background of life and the acceptance of the BBC as the natural' institution for controlling it distinguish this period from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192129309
• ISBN13: 9780192129307
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.0" x 8.6"