Postgraduate Hot Topic: Hearing history
Although the BBC’s contribution to the development of radio is well documented, programme output from UK independent, or commercial radio (launched in 1973) can also provide an alternative view of the world at specific points in time. Emma Wray (lecturer in Radio Studies) examines how commercial radio – through its phone-ins, news and documentaries – offers a mine of information for the study of the social, cultural and political issues that dominated two pivotal decades in British history.
An interesting and relatively recent development in...
