Agrégation anglais 2021 tronc commun civilisation, la BBC 1922-1995, post one

Those who are planning on taking the agrégation in 2021 will perhaps have noticed that the new question on "civilisation britannique" is out, and concerns the history of the BBC. The framework document (texte de cadrage) is here:

http://saesfrance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/programme-agreg-ext-2021.pdf


I will be posting here regularly links and information concerning this question - most frequently links to videos, but also to other useful elements as publications and academic conferences and seminars take up the challenge of exploring the history of this very impressive institution, a history which is multiform and includes the institutional, the political, the economic, the social and the cultural. Here are some initial ideas for reading, and a few videos. this list was put together by myself and a colleague from Toulon.

La BBC et le service public de l’audiovisuel, 1922-1995

Premiers repères bibliographiques

Nous avons surtout privilégié ce qui est facilement disponible en ligne, confinement oblige.

John Mullen, Frédéric Armao

Appia Henri et Cassen, Bernard, Presse, Radio et Télévision en Grande-Bretagne, Paris, Armand Collin, 1969.

Bignell, J., « The spaces of the Wednesday Play (BBC TV 1964–1970): production, technology and style », Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 34 (3), 2014, pp. 369-389.  Disponible en ligne.

Briggs Asa, The Birth of Broadcasting, 1961. (Vol 1)  Disponible en ligne  https://www.americanradiohistory.com/UK/BBC-Books/Birth-of-Broadcasting-Briggs-Vol-1-1961.pdf

Briggs, Asa, « The Culture of the BBC: A Personal Appreciation », Revue LISA/LISA e-journal, http://journals.openedition.org/lisa/662

Briggs, Asa, – The BBC – the First Fifty Years – (Condensed version of the five-volume history by the same author), Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1985. 

Cottle, Simon, « Making ethnic minority programmes inside the BBC: professional pragmatics and cultural containment », Media, Culture and Society, April 1, 1998.

*Crisell, Andrew, An Introductory History of British Broadcasting, London, Routledge 1997 ou 2002 (ou éditions ultérieures)

Elstein, David, The political structure of UK broadcasting 1949-1999, Lüneburg: Meson press 2015. Livre disponible en ligne : https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/1129/Elstein_2015_The_Political_Structure_of_UK_Broadcasting_1949-1999.pdf?sequence=1

Hendy, David, Life on air: a History of Radio Four, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007.

Murphy, Kate, « From Women’s Hour to Other Women’s Lives: BBC talks for women and the women who made them, 1923-1939 » in Andrews, Maggie and McNamara, Sallie, Women and the Media: Feminism and Femininity in Britain, 1900 to the Present, Londres : Routledge, 2014. Disponible en ligne. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/33052/3/Femininity%20and%20Feminism%20-%20final%20edit%203.pdf

Murphy, Kate, « A Marriage Bar of Convenience?  The BBC and Married Women’s Work 1923-1939 », Twentieth Century British History, 25, 2014. Disponible en ligne. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/33051/3/BBC%20Marriage%20Bar%20-%20second%20revision%20-%20final.pdf

O’Malley, Tom, Closedown? The BBC and Government Broadcasting Policy, 1979-1992, Londres, Pluto Press, 1992.

Ruff, Daniel « Margaret Thatcher et la BBC : régulation ou manipulation ? », Revue LISA/LISA e-journal [En ligne], Vol. IV - n°3, 2006. https://journals.openedition.org/lisa/2047

Schaffer, Gavin « Till Death Us Do Part" and the BBC: Racial Politics and the British Working Classes 1965-75 », Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 45, No. 2, April 2010).

Schwyter Jürg R., Dictating to the Mob, the History of the BBC Advisory Committee on Spoken English, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Skoog, Kristin, « Neither worker nor housewife but citizen: BBC's Woman's Hour 1946–1955 », Women's History Review, 2017. Disponible en ligne. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/27408/1/Skoog-WHR-Neither%20worker%20nor%20housewife-Dec-2016-v1.pdf

Street, Sean, Crossing the Ether: Pre-War Public Service Radio and Commercial Competition in the UK, London, John Libbey, 2006. (La thèse doctorale sur laquelle cet ouvrage est basée est disponible gratuitement en ligne ici http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/393/1/Street,_Sean_Ph.D._2003.pdf)

Vallée, Cécile, « La propagande cachée sur les ondes de la BBC pendant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale : vers une héroïsation nationale », Revue LISA/LISA e-journal vol. IV - n°3, 2006. https://journals.openedition.org/lisa/2025

Viera, J.D. « Terrorism At The BBC: The IRA On British Television », Journal of Film and Video, Fall 1988.

Waymark, Peter Astley Grosvenor, Television and the Cultural Revolution: the BBC under Hugh Carleton Greene, 1960-1969, PhD thesis, The Open University, 2006. Disponible en ligne ici : https://oro.open.ac.uk/59754/1/424650.pdf

Documentaires en ligne

Manchester: the Early Days of Radio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wxMGlQZ8No

Racism on TV in Great Britain (BBC2, 1979) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy57O9ZMENA

Forty years of BBC Local Radio (BBC 4, 2017) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLQPIslTfAc

BBC TV News – the First Thirty Years (BBC2 1984) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13Og6bNzGnQ

The Story of Pop Radio (BBC Radio 1, 1983)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8T9Z6bmetg&t=89s