Title The BBC German Service during the Second World War : broadcasting to the enemy / Vike Martina Plock

Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021] ©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 293 pages) : illustrations Series Palgrave studies in the history of the media Palgrave studies in the history of the media. Contents Introduction: Speaking with Hitler -- Part I. Programmes. Straight news -- Sonderberichte : German news talks -- What women want : BBC programmes for women in Germany -- Features and satire -- Part II. People. Voices in exile : German personality speakers -- The voice of England : British personality speakers -- Enemy aliens -- Monitoring -- Inhaling English : listeners in Germany -- Epilogue Summary This book, part media history and part group biography, tells the story of the BBCs 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 21, 2021) Subject BBC German Service -- History SUBJECT BBC German Service fast Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Press coverage -- Great Britain World War, 1939-1945 -- Press coverage -- Germany Radio broadcasting -- Germany -- History -- 20th century Press coverage Radio broadcasting Germany Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9783030740924 3030740927

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