From Empire to Cold War

‘From Empire to Cold War’, a series of 3 panel sessions at Tuning In International Conference, International Broadcasting, Public Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange

Panel One

Panel chair

Alban Webb

Panel presentations

• Andrew Hill, The Empire Service: The Voice, the Discourse of the Master and Ventriloquism
• Emma Robertson, ‘I get a real kick out of Big Ben’: BBC Versions of Britishness on the Empire and World Service, 1932-1967
• Jock Given, Service from the Bottom of the World: The Voice of Australia, 1931-39
• Simon Potter, Broadcasting Britishness: Reactions to the Empire Service in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, 1932-1939

Panel Two

Panel chair

Benny Ammar

Panel presentations

• Graham Mytton, The BBC and Its Cultural, Social and Political Framework
• Renée Poznanski, ‘Les Français parlent aux Français’: Voices from London on the Persecution of the Jews
• Massoumeh Torfeh, BBC Persian Service Broadcasts to Iran 1941-79
• Niccolo Tognarinin, Broadcasting in Arabic: BBC Arabic Service and the Race for the Middle Eastern Audience

Panel Three

Panel chair

Nicholas Cull

Panel presentations

• Alasdair Pinkerton, A New Kind of Imperialism? The BBC, Cold War Broadcasting, and the Contested Geopolitics of South Asia
• Alban Webb, Constitutional Niceties: Cold War Relations Between the BBC External Services and Whitehall
• Gordon Johnston, ‘War in the Air’: The BBC and Foreign Language Broadcasting
• Andrew Taussig, You Win Some, You Lose Some: 1989 and After

Cross theme reference: 
• BBC World Service Historical Pespectives