Issues and Singularity in the British Media Volume 2

David Haigron is a Senior Lecturer in British Studies at the University of Rennes, France. He is the author and (co-)editor of numerous publications on political communication, popular culture and social representations in the media.

Renée Dickason is Professor of British and Commonwealth studies at the University of Rennes, France. She has been a keen observer of British media for some thirty years. She is the author and (co-)editor of numerous publications on British social and cultural history, on war memories and on war representations in the media

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: Radio and Television Public Service Broadcasting: serving the people?.- Chapter 2: Sketching the British Broadcasting Landscape: from Experimentation to the Blooming and Shaping of a Self-perpetuating BBC Culture.- Chapter 3: Reithianism and Modern(ist) Broadcasting between the Wars: To Inform, Educate, or Project?.- Chapter 4: The Absence of Television: Broadcasting and War in Britain, 1939-45.- Chapter 5: Public Service Broadcasting in Britain.- Chapter 6: .- Government Intervention in the 21st-Century UK Broadcasting Ecology.- Part II: TV Productions: a tradition of innovation for each and for all.- Chapter 7: Experimenting with Programmes on British Television, 1945-1975.- Chapter 8: British TV Party Political Broadcasts: Persuasive, Performative Broadcasting.- Chapter 9: The Sum of the Parts: Orkney (BBC TV, 1971) - A Case Study.- Chapter 10: Teliesyn: A Singular Welsh Media Company's History through the Lenses of Cottle, Bourdieu and Berne.