The BBC at 100: change & innovation in 60s Britain

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🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In the latest episode of our monthly series marking the centenary of the BBC, media historian David Hendy speaks to Matt Elton about the ways in which the corporation kept up with a changing Britain through the 1960s. (Ad) David Hendy is the author of The BBC: A People’s History (Profile Books, 2022). Buy it now from Waterstones: https://go.skimresources.com?id=71026X1535947&xcust=historyextra-social-histboty&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Fthe-bbc%2Fdavid-hendy%2F%2F9781781255254%3Fawaid%3D3787%26utm_source%3Dredbrain%26utm_medium%3Dshopping%26utm_campaign%3Dcss%26gclid%3DCj0KCQiAip-PBhDVARIsAPP2xc2PCYX_d_582jtZj6du6A-9dNO8d8xXvVkPhP_Jmh1FuEm7Mui3xSYaAvwiEALw_wcB Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:10.2	Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine and BBC History Reveal.
1:24.5	I'm Ellie Cawthorne.
1:26.1	In the latest episode in our monthly series marking the centenary of the BBC,
1:32.5	media historian David Hendy and Matt Elton have reached the 1960s, when the BBC was forced to adapt
1:40.3	quickly to keep up with the rapid changes transforming British society.
1:45.5	So David, is it fair to say that as we pick up this story at the start of the 1960s,
1:51.0	the BBC was poised awkwardly between its past and its future?
1:55.5	Yes, I think that idea of it being poised between past and future really neatly sums up where the BBC is at the
2:02.9	start of the 60s. The writer E.M. Forster said something interesting about broadcasting. He was
2:09.4	actually talking about the third programme, but I think it stands in a way for the BBC more broadly.
2:16.0	He said it has two faces, one that faces the past and one that faces
2:22.3	the future. And also, to put it slightly differently, a face that reflects and a face that explores.
2:29.7	And I think that really captures where we are with the BBC at the start of the 1960s.
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