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Author Newton, Darrell M., author

Title Paving the Empire Road : BBC television and black Britons / by Darrell M. Newton
Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2011
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 267 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Radio, race, and the Television Service -- 2. Television programming and social impact -- 3. Voices of contention and BBC programming -- 4. Black eye -- 5. Contemporary voices from within
Summary The book explores how BBC management attempted to address race relations for the benefit of white Britons and African Caribbeans as their presence in England increased beyond the post-war years. Archival documents are used to demonstrate how established policies often shifted
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject British Broadcasting Corporation.
SUBJECT British Broadcasting Corporation fast
Subject Television broadcasting -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
Television and politics -- Great Britain -- History
West Indians -- Great Britain -- Public opinion -- History -- 20th century
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Television & Video.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
British colonies
Emigration and immigration
Race relations
Television and politics
Television broadcasting -- Social aspects
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century
Subject Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011410836
ISBN 9781781702840
1781702845
9781847794604
1847794602