The Hidden Histories of BBC Radio Adaptation: 1922-2015

BBC广播剧是世界上最多产的文学作品使用者，然而，一旦播出，这些广播作品就消失在公众的触角之外。尽管它们具有艺术性和普及性，但出于这个原因，它们几乎没有引发学术评论，因为广播上的写作基本上倾向于关注媒介的技术或社会学意义。这种电台改编的节目也不像它们在学校或大学的教学大纲中那样重要。该项目计划创建自1922年BBC电台诞生以来第一个可访问的所有改编的目录。它不仅详细说明了改编的内容，而且确实是如何改编的，在一篇论文中对改编的趋势和多年来改编的演变进行了文体分析。它还将探索改编和历史之间的基本但往往未被考虑的接口，阐明这些广播改编如何同时是早期原始文本的翻版，以及它们自身时代和文化价值的镜像。我尤其希望解决以下问题：在将戏剧、文学和诗歌作品重新纳入口头传统(或更确切地说，进入戏剧改编的新口头传统)时，BBC是否有意识地寻求使公众获得书面语言的民主化？具有作家、制片人、聘请编辑和导演影响了BBC电台戏剧产出的趋势？随着大众电视所有权的到来和音乐电台越来越受欢迎，BBC电台是否试图根据人口结构的变化重新定义自己？改编作品在多大程度上试图创造一个连贯的英国历史和人物叙事？戏剧产出在多大程度上反映了社会对英国身份和国家价值观的态度的变化？支持文档。

BBC Radio Drama is the most prolific user of literature in the world and yet, once aired, the radio works fade beyond the public reach. Despite their artistry and prevalence, for this reason, they have triggered little academic comment as writing on radio tends, by and large, to focus on the medium's technological or sociological import. Neither do such radio adaptations feature as they could on the syllabus in schools or universities. This project proposes to create the first accessible catalogue of all adaptations made on BBC radio since its birth in 1922. It will not only detail what was adapted but indeed how it was adapted, offering a stylistic analysis of trends and the evolution of adaptation over the years in a thesis. It will also explore the essential but often unconsidered interface between adaptation and history, making clear how these radio adaptations are at once reworkings of an earlier source text and mirrors of their own era and its cultural values.In particular I wish to address the following questions:In moving works of drama, literature and poetry back into the oral tradition (or rather into a new oral tradition of dramatic adaptation) was the BBC consciously seeking to democratise the public's access to the written word?Has the educational background of writers, producers, commissioning editors and directors influenced trends in the dramatic output of BBC Radio?With the advent of mass television ownership and the increase in the popularity of music radio stations did BBC Radio seek to redefine itself in terms of an altered demographic?To what extent are the adapted works trying to create a coherent narrative of British history and character and to what extent does the dramatic output reflect changes in social attitudes to British identity and national values? Supporting Documentation.