London Calling Italy : BBC Broadcasts during the Second World War (Studies in Popular Culture)

Lo Biundo, Ester

Manchester University Press（2025/06発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 224 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781526190802
• DDC分類 940.5488641

Full Description

London calling Italy is a book about Radio Londra, as the BBC Italian Service was known in Italy, and the company's development as a global leader in the broadcasting industry, starting from the Second World War. Drawing on unexplored archive material collected in Italy and the United Kingdom, it aims to understand how the BBC programmes engaged with ordinary Italians, while concurrently conducting political warfare against fascist Italy. The book also focuses on the relationship between the BBC Italian anti-fascist broadcasters, the British Foreign Office, and Labour Party. Key sources analysed in the book are, among others, the Foreign Office's records, the programmes broadcast by the BBC Italian Service during the Allied campaign, the memoirs of Italian anti-fascist broadcasters, the BBC surveys on the audience and the letters sent by listeners of the Italian Service.

Contents

Introduction: why Radio London?
1 Radio at war
2 The Italian Service
3 Exiles: biographies, memories and experiences of the Italian anti-fascist broadcasters
4 The Italian broadcasters and the British Foreign Office
5 The enemy: Ente Italiano per le Audizioni Radiofoniche (EIAR)
6 Occupation/Liberation
7 Who tuned in to the BBC? The Italian Service: its target audiences and listeners
Conclusion: Radio Londra between myth and reality

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