Writing the Radio War: Literature, Politics, and the BBC, 1939–1945

Ian Whittington

Writing the Radio War merges the fields of sound studies, radio studies, and Second World War literary studies through considerations of both major and marginalized figures of wartime broadcasting.

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Writing the Radio War

Literature, Politics, and the BBC, 1939–1945

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Acknowledgements
pp vi-vii

Series Editors’ Preface
pp viii-viii

Dedication
pp ix-x

Introduction: Projecting Britain
pp 1-29

1 - Out of the People: J. B. Priestley’s Broadbrow Radicalism
pp 30-64

2 - James Hanley and the Shape of the Wartime Features Department
pp 65-82

3 - To Build the Falling Castle: Louis MacNeice and the Drama of Form
pp 83-116

4 - Versions of Neutrality: Denis Johnston’s War Reports
pp 117-152

5 - Calling the West Indies: Una Marson’s Wireless Black Atlantic
pp 153-184

Coda: Coronation
pp 185-191

Bibliography
pp 192-210

Index
pp 211-220

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