History A-Level
Broadcasts from the front
What Broadcasts from the front means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Broadcasts from the front
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Reporting that used mobile recording units and correspondents to bring battle sounds and eyewitness description into homes, making war immediate and shaping public feeling.
Topics that use Broadcasts from the front
- Paper 3, Option 39.2: Mass media and social change in Britain, 1882–2004 - 2 Wireless and the war: propaganda, information and entertainment, 1939-45 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Black propaganda
- censorship
- Churchill’s relationship with the BBC
- Government influence over broadcasting
- Morale, public opinion and the BBC’s reputation
- Popular entertainment and national shared experience
- Radio as a source of practical information
- Sefton Delmer
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