“A claim to be heard”: voices of ordinary people in BBC radio features by Lewis, Peter M.

“…The BBC radio feature, originally influenced by the documentary film movement, combined music and sound with speech that at first was scripted, later recorded on location, along with ‘actuality’. …”
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Le discours rapporté dans un corpus d’anglais oral : formes et frontières by Sylvie HANOTE

“…It is based on the acoustic analysis of an oral corpus drawn from the radio (BBC Radio for British English and National Public Radio for American English) which has been compiled at Poitiers University. …”
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Digital Attraction : from the real to the virtual in manuscript studies by Peter Ainsworth

“…In a BBC Radio 4 programme broadcast on 26 April 2011 (Tales from the Digital Archive), archaeologist Christine Finn explored some of the ways in which the digital revolution has changed writers’ working methods, and the consequential impact that these have had on librarians, curators and conservators. …”
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Digital Attraction : from the real to the virtual in manuscript studies by Peter Ainsworth

“…In a BBC Radio 4 programme broadcast on 26 April 2011 (Tales from the Digital Archive), archaeologist Christine Finn explored some of the ways in which the digital revolution has changed writers’ working methods, and the consequential impact that these have had on librarians, curators and conservators. …”
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Courting Gentility: Handel at the Bank of England by Harris, Ellen T.

“…Perhaps one of the most surprising events of the 250th anniversary year of Handel’s death, in both its content and method of delivery, occurred on a BBC Radio 3 program devoted to the composer’s investments: John Keyworth, Curator of the Museum of the Bank of England, revealed that Handel had opened his first South Sea Annuities account in 1723, five years earlier than previously known.1 The discovery of this early investment activity offers important new information about Handel’s investment practices and their financial outcomes. …”
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Constructing and addressing the 'ordinary devoted mother': Donald Winnicott's BBC broadcasts, 1943-62 by Karpf, Anne

“…Donald Winnicott’s 50 BBC radio talks, broadcast between 1943-62, constitute the heart of his oeuvre and were later published in the bestselling book, ‘The Child, the Family and the Outside World’. …”
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Polish musical life in Great Britain during the Second World War by Jolanta Guzy-Pasiak

“…The organisation was instrumental in the founding of the London Polish String Quartet. The BBC Radio played a huge role in the popularisation of the Polish repertoire and Polish artists, broadcasting complete performances. …”
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A Five Star Flop: The Collision of Music Industry Machinations, Genre Maintenance, and Black Britishness in 1980s Pop by Anthony Kwame Harrison

“…In a 1987 interview with BBC Radio 1 DJ, Mike Read, members of the British pop group Five Star collectively stated that their hopes and wishes for 1988 were “to crack America” – that is, to achieve comparable success in the US music market to what they had in the UK. …”
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Debating Africa : BBC's documentary "Heart & soul - return to Zanzibar" by Hickman, Katy, Sheriff, Abdul, Alibhai-Brown, Yasmin

“…The context of this debate is BBC Radio’s "Return to Zanzibar" programme in their series, Heart & Soul. …”
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The Radio Garden: private pleasures and public benefits by Lewis, Peter M., Mitchell, Caroliine

“…Recently (February 2021) a mention of this extraordinary app in the BBC’s World Service led to more Twitter activity, a discussion on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, and a Guardian editorial (“world citizenship in an app”, Guardian 24 February). …”
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Harnessing rhetorical figures for argument mining by John Lawrence, Jacky Visser, Chris Reed

“…The data of the study is collected in the MM2012c corpus of 39,694 words of argumentatively annotated transcripts from the BBC Radio 4’s Moral Maze discussion program. We show that some of the figures indeed correspond to passages of high argumentative density, relative to the text as a whole.…”
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“I remain sincere friend of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad”. Letters from hieromonk Vasily (Rodzianko) to protopresbyter Georgy Grabbe by Andrey Kostryukov

“…The former is the future bishop and a long-term prsenter of Orthodox programmes on BBC Radio. The former also became a bishop, and for many years was the secretary of the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Church Abroad having a great infl uence on its policy. …”
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Learning journeys – student learning development in the first years of a medical degree: an analysis of student conversations by Kerry G. Gilbert

“…They were provided with a brief to aid them in their discussion in the style of the outside broadcast method of BBC Radio 4s listening project. Using this method, the conversation was unfacilitated and allowed to take its natural course. …”
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