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Jan 20, 2022
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The BBC: A People’s History
By David Hendy
Profile Books, £25, hardback, 656 pages
Nearly a century ago, on 14 November 1922, the BBC made its first broadcast. Far from the cultural behemoth it later became, the nascent institution was a ramshackle affair, harnessing scant resources and youthful optimism in an idealistic quest for a brighter world. This major
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