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David Hendy

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I'm a writer, broadcaster and Emeritus Professor of Media and Cultural History at the University of Sussex, England.

I studied history at St Andrews and Oxford before joining the BBC in 1987 as a trainee reporter, later working as a producer on The World Tonight and Analysis. After leaving the BBC in 1993 I taught at the University of Westminster and the University of Sussex, and held visiting fellowships at Yale, Cambridge, and Indiana-Bloomington.

'The BBC: A Century on Air' (published in the UK as 'The BBC: A People's History) is my latest book. My four previous publications include 'Life on Air: a History of Radio Four' (2007), which won the Longmans-History Today Book of the Year Award and was nominated for the Orwell Prize.

In 2010, I
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“Even the usually restrained John Snagge was aghast at the BBC giving airtime to The Beatles. ‘They are just noises,’ he complained , ‘a sort of primitive noise which is made by, I don’t know, black countries.’18”
David Hendy, The BBC: A People's History

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