Books by Asa (Vice-President Briggs

Volume 5 of a study of the history of broadcasting in the United Kingdom, examining the impact of competition. It should be of interest to: institutions where media history is taught; students of British media history at postgraduate level; and general readers who are drawn to the current debates about the BBC.

This volume covers ten critical years in the history of broadcasting: 1945 to 1955, during which television grew in popularity and the BBC lost its monopoly. Dealing not only with broadcasting policy, but with the changing arts and techniques of presenting various subjects, and exploring a society and culture now remote from our own.

This is part of a five-volume set on the history of broadcasting in the UK. It provides an exhaustive chronicle of the BBC's activities, achievements and personnel.

Part of a five-volume history of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom, this title covers early amateur experiments in wireless telephony in America and in England, the pioneer days at Writtle in Essex and elsewhere, and the coming of organized broadcasting and its rapid growth during the first four years of the BBC's existence as a private Company.

This volume covers the period 1939 to 1945 and discusses the impact of the Second World War on the BBC, and the role which the BBC played within the history of the War.