Reading Radio 4 A Programme-by-Programme Analysis of Britain's Most
This book is a study of contemporary Radio 4 output, covering the entire broadcast day. Radio is largely neglected by media and cultural studies. The small body of existing work on Radio 4 is predominantly historical, focusing on institutional history, or
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Macdonald Daly
Reading Radio 4
Macdonald Daly
Reading Radio 4 A Programme-by-Programme Analysis of Britain’s Most Important Radio Station
Macdonald Daly
ISBN 978-1-137-57656-9 ISBN 978-1-137-57657-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-57657-6 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016959958 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Cover image © Derek Croucher / Alamy Stock Photo Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Macmillan Publishers Ltd. The registered company address is: The Campus, 4 Crinan Street, London, N1 9XW, United Kingdom
For Sean Matthews
Foreword
This is a scholarly book, but it has also been written with the non-academic reader expressly in mind. The intellectual context for such a study, as well as its problematics and methodology, is discussed in the lengthy Introduction which immediately follows, but the reader who is not overly concerned with academic questions, and wishes mainly to explore the account given of individual Radio 4 programmes, is encouraged to skip immediately to the first chapter.
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Introduction 1 05.20 Shipping Forecast 35 05.30 News Briefing 49 05.43 Prayer for the Day 53 05.45 Farming Today 59 05.58 Tweet of the Day 67 06.00 Today 73 09.00 Round-Table Discussions and One-to-One Interviews 99 09.45 Book of the Week 127 10.00 Woman’s Hour 131
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10.55 The Listening Project 143 11.00 Morning Documentaries 147 11.30 Morning Comedies 167 12.00 Home Front/A History of Ideas 177 12.15 You and Yours 181 13.00 The World at One 189 13.45 Fifteen-Minute Feature 201 14.15 Afternoon Drama 207 15.00–17.00 Miscellaneous Afternoon P
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