BBC HANDBOOK 1940 — BBC HANDBOOK 1940

London : British Broadcasting Corporation 1940 1st Edition 128 p., num. black and white photographs on plates, index HARDCOVER: (Original blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine, spine bit sunned, name on end paper, occas. fox., else VERY GOOD) The book covers every aspect of the BBC and the country in the early days of the war, Photographs including: The evacuation of London schoolchildren; Neville Chamberlin at Mansion House,; Evacuated school children listen to a school broadcast in a country village; Maurice Brown and Laurence Gilliam marking a passage from the recording of a speech by Herr Hitler; Television cameras at the Richmond Royal Horse Show, etc..