Download or read book A Social History of British Broadcasting written by Paddy Scannell and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1991-08-26 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a history of broadcasting and its impact on modern life in Britain from its origins in the 1920s to the outbreak of the Second World War. Its concerns are with programmes and their makers and with the audiences for which they were made. It is a pioneering work of cultural and social history.