A phantom medium?:the SDAP, the Labour Party and the politics of radio broadcasting in the Netherlands and Great Britain (1920-1940). A comparative study

Many historians have argued that the rise of television in the 1950s and the 1960s has had an enormous significance to the display and workings of politics. What is remarkable is that observations about the political importance of television often ignore the role of radio, as a medium which is closely affiliated to television, but which saw its breakthrough to a mass audience in the 1920s and the 1930s. Against this background this study explores the significance of radio to interwar political culture. It does so by comparing the political dealings with radio by two likeminded political partie... Mehr ...