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Whittington intricately explores the way his key figures negotiate their own political beliefs within the wartime exigencies of the BBC... As well as being a fascinating study in the processes behind artistic endeavour these tensions also expose wider discomfort with certain parts of the war, and its meanings, for the British establishment. ---Linsey Robb, Cercles

Whittington intricately explores the way his key figures negotiate their own political beliefs within the wartime exigencies of the BBC... As well as being a fascinating study in the processes behind artistic endeavour these tensions also expose wider discomfort with certain parts of the war, and its meanings, for the British establishment. ---Linsey Robb, Cercles

"Whittington intricately explores the way his key figures negotiate their own political beliefs within the wartime exigencies of the BBC... As well as being a fascinating study in the processes behind artistic endeavour these tensions also expose wider discomfort with certain parts of the war, and its meanings, for the British establishment.--Linsey Robb ""Cercles"" Gracefully written and unfailingly astute, attuned to the nuances of text, sound and institution, Writing the Radio War illuminates the complexly mediated construction of British nationhood during wartime, and in the process makes a compelling case for the vitality and durability of literary radio studies.-- ""Debra Rae Cohen, University of South Carolina"""

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Ian Whittington is Associate Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of Writing the Radio War: Literature, Politics and the BBC, 1939-1945 (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) as well as a number of essays on radio studies and twentieth-century British, Irish, and Anglophone literature.

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