Overview
- Explores how BBC local radio connected with South Asian communities
- Examines the current debates about institutional racism at the BBC
- Argues the BBC is still failing the South Asian diaspora in Britain
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Local radio stations at the periphery of the BBC built deep and influential connections with marginalised Asian communities, creating the BBC Asian Network in 1989 and played an influential part in building local social cohesion. This contrasts with central BBC policy that reveals a management culture resistant to change and unable to embrace an increasingly diverse Britain - creating a problematic legacy for the BBC.
Finding a New British Asian Sound brings new insights into current debates around policy and institutional racism at the BBC, where South Asian programming on local and network radio remains at risk of closure.
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Book Title: Finding a New British Asian Sound on BBC Radio
Book Subtitle: The South Asian diaspora in Britain and BBC Radio
Authors: Liam McCarthy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35620-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-35619-3Published: 22 September 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-35622-3Due: 23 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-35620-9Published: 21 September 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 198
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Media and Communication, British Culture, Diaspora