Session Details

Friday, 07 January

179. BBC Radio and British Writing

8:30–9:45 a.m., Diamond Salon 3, J. W. Marriott

Program arranged by the Division on Twentieth-Century English Literature

Presiding: Allan Hepburn, McGill Univ.

1. “Cultural Tectonics; or, Why the BBC Became Afraid: Harold Nicolson and the New Spirit in Literature,” Todd Avery, Univ. of Massachusetts, Lowell

2. “The Listener as Interface,” Debra Rae Cohen, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia

3. “Only Connecting? E. M. Forster, Empire Broadcasting, and the Ethics of Distance,” Daniel Morse, Temple Univ., Philadelphia

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