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Subject: [BBC-HISTORY] Suitcase of Soundscapes: The London Transcription Service and the Packaging of Wartime Sounds for the BBC's Global Radio
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Open access in latest issue...
Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television Volume 44, 2024 - Issue 3
Suitcase of Soundscapes: The London Transcription Service and the
Packaging of Wartime Sounds for the BBC's Global Radio Audience Erica
Harrison
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01439685.2024.2310356
The wartime work of the BBC is widely remembered, but the focus on the
live broadcasting of news across Britain and occupied Europe which characterises most previous studies overlooks the extensive production
of transcription recordings for both allied and neutral countries during
the conflict.
Transcription programmes, along with other neglected fields such as
library music, have left more robust archival traces than the more
celebrated and 'ephemeral' live programming, thereby challenging the
continued centrality of 'liveness' to scholarly understandings of radio
as a medium. This article looks at the programmes produced by the BBC's
London Transcription Service
(LTS) through the case study of an unstudied collection of wartime discs
which are preserved at the Czech Radio Archive in Prague. These
programmes, produced by international teams for a truly global audience,
offer further insights into the wartime 'projection of Britain' and show
how the specificities of transcription were used to ensure audiences
received an impression of Britain and the Allied cause that was
carefully tailored to them
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