This book provides a narrative history of the BBC Radio Variety Department exploring, along chronological lines, the workings of, tensions within and the impact

This book is a social history of popular history in Britain between the end of the First World War and the 1970s. It considers how ordinary people were taught h

First published 1975. Covers the period, 1927-1939, from the BBC's establishment as a public corporation, to the outbreak of war