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Description of  Radio Empire: The BBC s Eastern Service and the Emergence of the Global Anglophone Novel (Modernist Latitudes)

Initially created to counteract broadcasts from Nazi Germany, the BBCs Eastern Service became a cauldron of global modernism and an unlikely nexus of artistic exchange. Directed at an educated Indian audience, its programming provided remarkable moments: Listeners in India heard James Joyce reading from Finnegans Wake on the eve of independence, as well as the literary criticism of E. M. Forster and the works of Indian writers living in London. In Read more