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Zusatztext 'Stephen Games is a leading authority on the life and work of Nikolaus Pevsner and this lucid and immensely readable history is as fascinating as it is informative. We learn much of Pevsner's work as a broadcaster but at the same time the post-war BBC and British society is revealed in this very detailed account. The fascination of Stephen Games' authoritative account of Pevsner's BBC career is how much we learn about the BBC itself and post-war Britain. This is a thoughtful and perceptive contribution to the field which will be seized on by broadcasting historians.' Hugh Chignell! Bournemouth University! UK Informationen zum Autor Stephen Games is a designer and writer specialising in architecture and cultural history. Formerly with the BBC! the Guardian and the Independent! he has written extensively about Nikolaus Pevsner and John Betjeman! runs the New Premises design studio in North London! and teaches around the world. He was educated at the Central School of Art and Magdalene College! Cambridge! has lectured on architectural history and theory at Kent University! and has taught at Boston University and Temple University! Philadelphia. He is the winner of a British Press Award and has twice been a guest scholar at the Getty Research Institute! Los Angeles. Zusammenfassung This book looks at the rise in Pevsner’s standing at the BBC, at what he was admired for, and at the circumstances surrounding his being commissioned, in the mid-1950s. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 Chronology; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 A German in London; Chapter 3 Geoffrey Grigson; Chapter 4 The BBC at War; Chapter 5 First Broadcasts; Chapter 6 The Third Programme; Chapter 7 The First Four Years; Chapter 8 King Penguins; Chapter 9 Into the Fifties; Chapter 10 The Reith Lectures; Chapter 11 Fallout from the Reiths; Chapter 12 His Last Gasp; Part 2 Context; Chapter 13 Audience Response; Chapter 14 Press Response; Chapter 15 Critical Response; Chapter 16 Pevsner’s Language; Chapter 17 The Changing Character of the BBC; Chapter 18 Pevsner’s Vulnerability—a Test Case; Chapter 19 Pevsner’s Producers and Englishness; Chapter 20 Belles-Lettres;...
