Prof. David Hendy talk, 'Writing a "People's History" of the BBC'

Professor Hendy is a writer, broadcaster and Emeritus Professor of Media and Cultural History at the University of Sussex. He studied history at St Andrews and Oxford before joining the BBC in 1987 as a trainee reporter, later working as a producer on The World Tonight and Analysis. Since leaving the BBC in 1993 he has taught at the University of Westminster and the University of Sussex, and held visiting fellowships at Yale, Cambridge, and Indiana-Bloomington. He has published widely , mostly on aspects of the history of the BBC. In 2022 he published the official BBC history marking its centenary, The BBC: A People’s History (Profile), which has been described as “riveting… a fascinating and informative account of the BBC’s first 100 years” (Sunday Telegraph)

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