Radio’s Legacy in Popular Culture: The Sounds of British Broadcasting over the Decades

Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Figures
Chapter 1: Constructing a radio culture: The years up to 1922
	Writing a radio history
	How to read, watch and listen across the decades
	An outline of the book
	Pre-history: Before the days of the BBC
	Birth of the BBC
Chapter 2: Broadcasting on air, 1922 to 1935
	Radio: A history of discovery
	Writers ask what radio can, and cannot, do
	Radio causes trouble: The human side of broadcasting
	How far can it go? Radio’s geographic coverage
	Part of the fabric of the home: Domesticity and social class
Chapter 3: Developing ways of listening : Class and distinction, 1935 to 1938
	Forming listening habits: From the personal to the public
	Winifred Holtby and the fictionalizing of radio
	Solitary listening
	Radio as a conversation-starter and as a marker of social class
	At the movies: People like us listening to the wireless
	Satirizing radio: Making fun of the new medium
	Radio in the public space: Communal listening and soundscapes
	Radio in the public space: Royal broadcasting
Chapter 4: The home front: Modernism, war and its aftermath, 1938 to 1949
	The wireless comes of age
	Radio, Modernism and James Joyce
	Radio news: Journalism and the build-up to war
	The wireless and entertainment during the war
	Propaganda, exhortation and cinema’s representations of radio listening
	After the war: Auntie’s media choices expand
Chapter 5: The new Elizabethans and new questions, 1950 to 1968
	Post-war radio: From change to revolution
	The end of the ancient regime
	The brave new future: Radio and the Festival of Britain
	Radio on film: Continuity with an edge of suspicion
	The beginning of the turn: From Auntie to inquisitor
	Death, intrigue and horror: Radio’s dark side
	A jumpin’ little record I want my jockey to play
	From rock ‘n’ roll to pirate radio
	The Who and the Small Faces: Mod style goes offshore
Chapter 6: Britain and the fascination with American radio nostalgia, 1969 to 1979
	Don’t touch that dial: Transatlantic inspiration
	The American influence
	Play Misty for Me: The radio as a threat to life
	Baby boomer radio: How youth cultures came of age
	Format radio: The persistent popularity of American country music
	British cultural reactions
Chapter 7: Video killed the radio star: Satire, politics and international listening, 1979 to 1984
	Singing songs about the radio
	The eventual British responses to radio listening
	Satire: Radio begins to eat itself
	The international turn: Radio crossing political borders
	British politics and radio broadcasting: The late 1970s and early 1980s
Chapter 8: Hang the DJ: Critiquing the present, remembering the past, 1984 to 1993
	British commercial radio: From public service to profit-seeking
	Critiques of radio presentation: ‘Hang the blessed DJ’
	Criticizing the BBC: Views of the Corporation from within
	Still looking to the United States: Searching for the art of the DJ
	British nostalgia of the late 1980s
	American nostalgia of the late 1980s
Chapter 9: Death and psychology: Radio, genocide and loneliness, 1993 to 2006
	The growth of local and community radio
	The satirizing of British radio continues
	Pirate radio: Making fun of English land-based illegal broadcasters
	Radio on-screen: The movie soundtrack and the acousmêtre
	Radio agony aunts and uncles: Stories from Seattle and Glasgow
Chapter 10: Listening back and looking forward: Nostalgia and new technology, 2006 to 2022
	Hearing, not listening
	The return to nostalgia?
	Critique, comedy and satire
	Crime and thriller: Radio in the here and now
	Radio and new ways of listening: The next generation
Afterword
References
	Primary sources (1): Printed, visual, musical, electronic and works of art
	Chapter 1
	Chapter 2
		Novels, short stories and poetry
		Film and TV
		Music
		Radio
	Chapter 3
		Novels and poetry
		Film
		Theatre
		Music
		Radio
	Chapter 4
		Novels, short stories and poetry
		Film
		Theatre
		Radio
	Chapter 5
		Novels, poetry and magazines
		Film and TV
		Music
		Radio
	Chapter 6
		Novels
		Film and TV
		Music
		Radio
		Art
	Chapter 7
		Novels
		Film and TV
		Music and live comedy
		Radio
	Chapter 8
		Novels
		Film and TV
		Music
		Radio
	Chapter 9
		Novels
		Film, TV and video games
		Theatre
		Music
		Radio
	Chapter 10
		Novels and graphic novels
		Film and TV
		Music
		Radio
		Sculpture
	Primary sources (2): Contemporary non-fiction: Journals, memoirs, essays, articles and others
	Secondary sources
Index