Institute for Media & Communication Research

The Centre for Broadcasting History Research

The Centre for Broadcasting History seeks to:

Stimulate an interest in the study of the history of broadcasting
Create and develop partnerships with other organisations and institutions in shared areas of historical interest
Work for the preservation of important at-risk archival collections
Develop new approaches to the interrogation of existing resources through the application of innovative technologies
Raise the profile of historical contexts within the current teaching practice of the School
Develop work as a contribution towards the RAE 2008

The Director of the Centre for Broadcasting History Research is Professor Sean Street. His research work is linked closely to his radio programme-making and writing on radio and literary subjects. For more details, go to www.seanstreet.com External Link

Latest news:

The Centre for Broadcasting History Research, in association with the British Universities Film and Video Council, is developing an online audio archive of UK commercial radio, from 1973 to 1992. Work produced before the Broadcasting Act 1990 represents a different ethos to the role commercial radio played, and subsequently,continues to play, in the UK.

The change in commercial radio since this period is extraordinary. It is impossible for the young student of radio, born since this time, to imagine that such independently funded radio could have existed. As a result, it is vitally important that these programmes be preserved, as part of the evolving history of post-war British broadcasting.

For more information download the Radio Archive Brochure(PDF 432kb)

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or visit the The LBC/Independent Radio News (IRN) project webpage