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Radio still remains an important form of media, with millions listening to it daily. It has been reborn for the digital era, and is an area where there is great interest in its development, role and form. Attempting to fill the gap in research on British radio criticism, this volume explores the development and role of radio criticism in the discourse around radio in Britain from its birth in the 1920s up to present day. Using a historical approach to explore how, as radio emerged, the press provided coverage which helped shape and reflect radio's position in popular culture, Paul Rixon delivers an interesting and engaging exploration that provides a cultural perspective on radio, with a specific focus on newspaper criticism. Radio Critics and Popular Culture is an innovative and original addition to existing research and will be invaluable for those interested in the way that British radio has evolved.

Radio broadcasting --- Radiodiffusion --- Radio broadcasting, British --- History. --- Histoire. --- History and criticism.

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"The Wireless Past chronicles the emergence of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) as a significant promotional platform and aesthetic influence for Irish modernism from the 1930s to the 1960s. This is the first book-length study of Irish literary broadcasting on the BBC and situates the works of W. B. Yeats, Elizabeth Bowen, Louis MacNeice, and Samuel Beckett in the context of the media environments that shaped their works. Drawing upon unpublished radio archives, this book shows that radio broadcasting, rather than prompting a break with literary history and traditional literary forms, in fact served as an important means for reinterpreting the legacies of oral and print traditions. In the years surrounding World War II, radio came to be seen as a catalyst for literary revivals and, simultaneously, a force for experimentation. This double valence of radio--conjoining revivalism and experimentation--creates mid-century modernism's radiogenic aesthetics"--

English literature --- Mass communications --- BBC [London] --- anno 1930-1939 --- anno 1940-1949 --- anno 1960-1969 --- anno 1950-1959 --- Ireland --- Radio and literature --- Irish literature --- Modernism (Literature) --- Radio broadcasting, British --- British radio broadcasting --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Literature and radio --- Poetry and radio --- Radio and poetry --- Literature --- History. --- Irish authors --- History and criticism. --- History --- British Broadcasting Corporation --- British Broadcasting Company --- B.B.C. --- BBC --- British Broadcasting Corporation. --- Great Britain. --- Hayʼat al-Idhāʻah al-Barīṭānīyah --- Ying-kuo kuang po kung ssu --- Yingguo guang bo gong si --- Irish authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- B.B.C. (British Broadcasting Corporation) --- BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) --- BBC Group