A brief update prior to departing for a week’s R and R in the Lake District. Unfortunately a looming date with Lake Windermere and an unusually busy week on campus (UG/PG dissertation and essay tutorials, plus assorted other activities) stopped me in my tracks, such that I remain tantalisingly close to completion of my chapter on CRF’s creation …
Monthly Archive: March 2014
Mar 03
Still in the summer of 1914…
The BBC continues to mark the commencement of the First World War, and my only explanation for the corporation compressing so many radio and television programmes in to these few weeks is a presumption that no-one would watch in late July/early August. Alternatively, someone in Broadcasting House was sufficiently prescient as to anticipate a crisis …
Adrian Smith, Emeritus Professor of Modern History, University of Southampton
