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Charlotte Higgins

This New Noise: The Extraordinary Birth and troubled life of the BBC by Charlotte Higgins

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December 2015, no. 377
Andy Lloyd James reviews 'This New Noise' by Charlotte Higgins

In 1922 John Reith was appointed general manager of the British Broadcasting Company. Reith was the son of a Glasgow Free Presbyterian Minister. Trained not at university but as an engineer and badly wounded during World War I, Reith was a virtual unknown, with no media experience. By his own admission he didn't even know what broadcasting was, but that was no probl ...