Tools
ToolsSkoog, K., 2019. Visions of Utopia: Sweden, the BBC and the Welfare State. Media History, 25 (3), 307 - 323.
Full text available as:
|
PDF
Skoog_MH_Visions_accepted_paper.pdf - Accepted Version Available under License Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial. 337kB | |
![[img]](/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png) |
PDF
Skoog Visions of Utopia accepted version.pdf - Accepted Version Restricted to Repository staff only Available under License Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial. 337kB | |
|
Copyright to original material in this document is with the original owner(s). Access to this content through BURO is granted on condition that you use it only for research, scholarly or other non-commercial purposes. If you wish to use it for any other purposes, you must contact BU via BURO@bournemouth.ac.uk. Any third party copyright material in this document remains the property of its respective owner(s). BU grants no licence for further use of that third party material. |
DOI: 10.1080/13688804.2018.1514253
Abstract
Drawing on manuscripts and transcripts of BBC programme output, and material from the Radio Times, and the BBC’s The Listener magazine, this article analyses radio talks and programmes that focused on Sweden in the immediate years after the Second World War when the Swedish model was widely popularised abroad. The article argues that BBC output entangled domestic politics and transnational ideas around post-war reconstruction and welfare. Sweden was used as a lens through which a modern welfare state could be visualised and justified. This was however Utopia in two senses since the image of Sweden presented was in itself a highly idealised representation.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 1368-8804 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | BBC, 1940s, radio, welfare state, Sweden, entanglement |
| Group: | Faculty of Media & Communication |
| ID Code: | 32475 |
| Deposited By: | Symplectic RT2 |
| Deposited On: | 02 Jul 2019 10:57 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Mar 2022 14:16 |
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year
| Repository Staff Only - |