The Third Programme: A Literary History - Couverture rigide

Whitehead, Kate

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0198128932 ISBN 13 : 9780198128939

Editeur : Clarendon Press, 1989

Synopsis

This book traces the development of the Third Programme from post-war optimism to the pop culture of the Sixties. From 1946 to 1970 the BBC's Third Programme was a patron for Britain's creative writers, providing a platform for poets, novelists and playwrights to experiment with new forms of writing, free from commercial constraints. Using some previously untouched documentary sources, the author looks at the relationship between policy makers and the British literary establishment. He considers the influence of the Programme's spoken-word policy on contemporary writing. From the very beginning, the Third Programme was controversial, arousing passions both for and against it. Never far from the pages of the press, it was threatened by the first authors' strike championed by J.B.Priestley, it was the subject of debate in the Commons and Lords and the object of two campaigns for its survival joined by some including T.S.Eliot, Jean Cocteau, Albert Camus, Frank Kermode and Jonathan Miller.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Clarendon Press
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0198128932
• ISBN 13: 9780198128939
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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