Not All Propaganda is Art 7: Manufacturing Dissent

Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything

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🗓️ 19 March 2024

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In 1959, Anti-Americanism surged in the UK. England seethed over America’s treatment of its Prime Minister who was smacked down for daring to use diplomacy to resolve the crisis over divided Germany. In 1959 England also fretted over a new American export: the Beatnik. The British foreign office forcefully responded with a report advocating for “ an increased effort in the field of press, radio and television in the U.K. to say the right kind of things about the Americans.” This is the very moment Kenneth Tynan was commissioned to make a documentary for British Television about American Non-conformism and Dissent. We take a close look at one of the Cold War's most bizarre and inspired artifacts of Anti Anti-American propaganda.

Shownotes: Laura Bradley writes on Brecht and German theater. Kenneth Tynan’s documentary aired on January 27th, 1960 and then was supposedly erased (it wasn’t).

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1:22.1	In the mid-1950s British theatre critic Kenneth Tainen was England's loudest
1:27.0	champion of anti-Western artists like Bertold Brecht. This is how his wife at the time, Elaine Dundee,
1:34.7	recalls his Brechtian conversion.
1:37.2	He'd gone off to see Mother Courage at the Tayen Bay,
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