Poetry Television Broadcasting at the BBC, 1932 to the present

探索诗歌、BBC电视和观众之间的关系。我的目标是在BBC电视上制作第一部关于诗歌广播的学术历史。通过这样做，我希望回答一系列与BBC、诗歌、诗人、观众和不断变化的英国有关的问题。英国广播公司于1936年开始在电视上广播。我希望回答的问题主要涉及BBC的诗歌节目(尚未定义)是否以及在多大程度上引导、呼应、影响、抑制或教唆了那个时代的巨大社会变革。例如，这些问题包括现代主义、非殖民化、女权主义和不断变化的人口结构。我还将质问，作为公共服务广播机构，英国广播公司是如何支持诗人和诗歌的，它如何让一些人成为家喻户晓的名字，让另一些人留在更稀薄的媒体电台，而让另一些人完全不管。英国广播公司对诗人和诗歌的看法多种多样：作为一种带来声望的非商业性、高雅的艺术形式；作为探索广播和电视的正式可能性的一种方式；作为英国文学遗产的关键部分；作为对“国家故事”的肯定；作为提升英国在海外的“软实力”的一种手段；以及最近，作为一种探索和表现现代英国声音多样性的手段。这主要是一部历史作品。我的大部分研究将以档案为基础。BBC拥有大量的、基本上未经审查的员工档案、内部备忘录和专门用于个别电视节目和系列剧的档案。我还将主持和录制对一系列各方的采访，包括诗人、导演和制片人。我的研究将把BBC的诗歌电视作品置于其更广泛的文化‘使命’中，并将为批判性地评估其宣称的使命与实际发生的事情之间的关系提供基础。

An exploration of the relationship between poetry, BBC television and the viewing public.My aim is to produce the first scholarly history of poetry broadcasting on BBC television. In doing so I hope to answer a range of questions relating to the BBC, poetry, poets, the viewing public and a changing Britain. The BBC began broadcasting on television in 1936. The questions I hope to answer relate mostly to whether, and to what extent, the BBC's poetry programming (as yet undefined) led, echoed, influenced, subdued or abetted the great social changes of the age. These include, for example, modernism, decolonisation, feminism and changing demographics. I will also interrogate how, as public service broadcaster, the BBC has supported poets and poetry, how it made households names of some, and left others to the more rarefied medium of radio, and left yet others alone entirely. The BBC viewed poets and poetry in a variety of ways: as a non-commercial, 'highbrow' artform that brings prestige; as a way of exploring the formal possibilities of radio and TV; as a key part of the UK's literary heritage; as an affirmation of the 'national story'; as a means of promoting British 'soft power' abroad; and, more recently, as a means of exploring and representing the diversity of voices in modern Britain. This is primarily a work of history. The bulk of my research will be archive-based. The BBC has an extensive, and largely unexamined archives of staff files, internal memos, and files dedicated to individual TV programmes and series. I will also conduct and record interviews with a range of parties, including poets, directors, and producers. My research will situate the BBC's poetry television output within its broader cultural 'mission' and will provide the basis for a critical evaluation of the relationship between its stated mission and what actually transpired.