Part of a five-volume history of the rise and development of broadcasting in the United Kingdom.

Part of a five-volume history of the rise and development of broadcasting in the United Kingdom.

Part of a five-volume history of the rise and development of broadcasting in the United Kingdom.

This is the first of a five-volume history of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom. The Birth of Broadcasting covers early amateur experiments in wireless telephony in America and in England, the pioneer days at Writtle in Essex and elsewhere, and the coming of organized broadcasting and its rapid growth during the first four years of the BBC's existence as a private Company before it became a public Corporation in January 1927. Briggs also considers the impact of wireless on society, and he has much to say about personalities and programmes as well as Corporation policies.

First published 1975. Covers the period, 1927-1939, from the BBC's establishment as a public corporation, to the outbreak of war