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'London Calling Italy offers an expertly researched, thought-provoking analysis of BBC propaganda for Italy during the Second World War, exploring how programmes were put together and what listeners made of them. It will surely become the key work on this topic.' Simon Potter, Professor of Modern History at the University of Bristol London calling Italy is a book about Radio Londra, as the BBC Italian Service was known in Italy, and the company's development as a global leader in the broadcasting industry, starting from the Second World War. Drawing on unexplored archive material collected in Italy and the United Kingdom, it aims to understand how the BBC programmes engaged with ordinary Italians, while concurrently conducting political warfare against fascist Italy. The book also focuses on the relationship between the BBC Italian anti-fascist broadcasters, the British Foreign Office, and Labour Party. Key sources analysed in the book are, among others, the Foreign Office's records, the programmes broadcast by the BBC Italian Service during the Allied campaign, the memoirs of Italian anti-fascist broadcasters, the BBC surveys on the audience and the letters sent by listeners of the Italian Service.
Front matter
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
General editorβs foreword
Introduction: why Radio London?
Radio at war
The Italian Service
Exiles: biographies, memories and experiences of the Italian anti-fascist broadcasters
The Italian broadcasters and the British Foreign Office
The enemy: Ente Italiano per le Audizioni Radiofoniche (EIAR)
Occupation/liberation
Who tuned in to the BBC? The Italian Service: its target audiences and listeners
Conclusion: Radio Londra between myth and reality
Bibliography
Index
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