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Informationen zum Autor Hugh Chignell is Emeritus Professor of Media History at the Faculty of Media and Communication, Bournemouth University, UK. He taught on the MA Radio Production and BA Radio and was director of the Centre for Media History. Chignell has published widely on radio including British Radio Drama 1945-63 (Bloomsbury 2019), Public Issue Radio (2011), and Key Concepts in Radio Studies (2009). Zusammenfassung British Radio Drama, 1945-1963 reveals the quality and range of the avant-garde radio broadcasts from the 'golden age' of British radio drama. Turning away from the cautious and conservative programming that emerged in the UK immediately after World War II, young generations of radio producers looked to French theatre, introducing writers such as Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco to British radio audiences. This 'theatre of the absurd' triggered a renaissance of writing and production featuring the work of Giles Cooper, Rhys Adrian and Harold Pinter, as well as the launch of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Based on primary archival research and interviews with former BBC staff, Hugh Chignell places this high-point in the BBC’s history in the broader context of British post-war culture, as norms of morality and behavior were re-negotiated in the shadow of the Cold War, while at once establishing the internationalism of post-war radio and theatre. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Post War Britain2. Post War BBC Radio Drama Department3. Radio drama, 1945-19534. Technologies of production and consumption5. Radio drama and the absurd6. Giles Cooper7. Features Department dramatists8. Realist radio drama9. The 1960sConclusionList of ProgramsBibliographyIndex
