A British Broadcasting Centenary and Media History

Abstract

Book review of: Martin Cooper, Radio’s Legacy in Popular Culture. The Sounds of British Broadcasting over the Decades (London: Bloomsbury, 2022); David Hendy, The BBC: a People’s History (London: Profile Books, 2022); Jamie Medhurst, The Early Years of Television and the BBC (Edinburgh University Press, 2022) and Simon J. Potter, This is the BBC. Entertaining the Nation, Speaking for Britain? 1922-2022 (Oxford University Press, 2022).