BBC Monitoring - Summary of World Broadcasts

The UvA Library recently acquired a subscription to the BBC Monitoring Summary of World Broadcasts, from 1939 to 1958. Created at the outset of World War Two, BBC Monitoring aimed to rapidly gather and interpret international news. The database includes a summary of World Broadcasts transcripts of original radio and television broadcasts, translated into English and summarised. Besides the database, the UvA Library also has a subscription to different BBC journals, including reports on countries. I have also included a few interesting books recently published on the BBC. 

    GO TO BBC MONITORING 1939-1958   

Journals

• BBC History Magazine
• BBC Worldwide Monitoring: International Reports.
  Africa, Asia, Australia & Oceania, Central America & Caribbean, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America.  

For more journals of the BBC go to the UvA journals overview and search on BBC

Recently published literature

Lloyd, Justine. Gender and Media in the Broadcast Age: Women’s Radio Programming at the BBC, CBC, and ABC. New York, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Lo Biundo, Ester. London Calling Italy: BBC Broadcasts during the Second World War. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022.

McCarthy, Liam. Finding a New British Asian Sound on BBC Radio : The South Asian Diaspora in Britain and BBC Radio. 1st ed. Cham: Springer International Publishing AG, 2023.

Medhurst, Jamie. The Early Years of Television and the BBC. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022.

Plock, Vike Martina. The BBC German Service during the Second World War: Broadcasting to the Enemy. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 

Potter, Simon James. Wireless Internationalism and Distant Listening : Britain, Propaganda, and the Invention of Global Radio, 1920-1939. First edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.

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