Cosmopolitanism and Culture: Mediating Citizenship at BBC World Service

Panel session at 4th Annual CRESC Conference, Culture and Citizenship

Panel chair

Marie Gillespie

Panel presentations

• Alasdair Pinkerton, ’BBC calls the world’: Cold War Broadcasting and the Struggle for South East Asia
• Emma Robertson, ‘Everyone was so excited to know that we could feel so close to the Mother Country’: Negotiating Cultural Citizenship through BBC Broadcasts to the Empire,1932-1967
• Alban Webb, Keeping the Home Fires Burning: The BBC and the Hungarian Uprising, 1956

Cross theme reference: 
• BBC World Service Historical Pespectives