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The Listener Historical Archive, 1929-1991 provides access to a collection of archived issues from BBC's weekly magazine, The Listener.
This weekly periodical reproduced and reported on BBC broadcasts in radio and television. The archive consists the complete 62 year run of the publication covering new films and books, major literary and musical programs, daily life during World War II, 20th Century poetry, science broadcasting, politics, and more.
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The Listener Historical Archive, 1929-1991 provides access to 140,000 pages of the archived issues of The Listener.
Established by the BBC in 1929, this weekly magazine reproduced and reported on BBC broadcasts in radio and television.
The archive consists the complete 62 year run of the publication covering new films and books, major literary and musical programs, daily life during World War II, 20th Century poetry, science broadcasting, politics, and more.
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This collection is available on the Gale Primary Sources Platform and is cross-searchable with other primary source products from the provider.
The collection is keyword and full-text searchable with Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Users are able to download the OCR in a .txt format.
In addition, this collection is Zotero compatible and allows for user-generated tags and annotations, cites, and group sources, tags, and annotations.
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This collection is available as a one-time purchase.
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