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This collection interrogates and stimulates deep, cross-disciplinary engagement with the various understandings and interplays of 'radio modernisms' from the early decades of the twentieth century through to the 1950s. This book was originally published as a special issue of
Media History.
List of contents
1. Introduction: Radio Modernisms: Features, Cultures and the BBC 2. Radio's Vernacular Modernism: The Schedule as Modernist Text 3. Waves: Aestheticism, Radio Drama and Virginia Woolf 4. BBC Features, Radio Voices and the Propaganda of War 1939-1941 5. Making Waves: Una Marson's Poetic Voice at the BBC 6. 'Countries in the Air': Travel and Geomodernism in Louis MacNeice's BBC Features 7. Who's Listening to Modernism? BBC Features and Audience Response 8. Intermedial Relationships of Radio Features with Denis Mitchell's and Philip Donnellan's Early Television Documentaries 9. Afterlives of BBC Radio Features 10. Afterword: Radio Modernisms: Features, Cultures and the BBC
About the author
Aasiya Lodhi is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Westminster, UK. She was previously an arts and current affairs producer at BBC Radio 3, Radio 4, and BBC World Service.
Amanda Wrigley is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Film, Theatre and Television at the University of Reading, UK. She is also a Visiting Fellow in the School of Arts and Cultures at the Open University, UK, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Summary
This collection interrogates and stimulates deep, cross-disciplinary engagement with the various understandings and interplays of ‘radio modernisms’ from the early decades of the twentieth century through to the 1950s. This book was originally published as a special issue of Media History.
