Expert views on our BBC Monitoring Reports
The BBC monitoring reports in store The wooden library trolley creaks into our Board Room. Piled on its shelves are around twenty boxes of transcripts made by the BBC Monitoring Service during and...
View ArticleThe BBC Monitoring Service archive and the 1980 Moscow Olympics
The BBC monitoring reports in store. My PhD involves researching into how the Soviet Union portrayed the 1980 Moscow Olympic boycott to the world, via the medium of shortwave radio. In doing this I...
View ArticleRadio Moscow reviews the 1979 election
The visit of Margaret Thatcher to the Cabinet War Rooms, 4 April 1984. IWM-1984-15-1. With all the recent coverage of the life and times of Margaret Thatcher, I thought it might be interesting to delve...
View ArticleGuest Post: ‘The Ear of Britain’: Openness and the BBC Monitoring Service
Arabic monitors at the BBC Monitoring Service’s early wartime home in Wood Norton Hall, Evesham, 1941 © BBC Former IWM Collaborative Doctoral Award Student, Laura Johnson, describes her exciting...
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