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。我的目标是制作第一部BBC电视广播诗歌的学术史。通过这样做，我希望回答一系列与英国广播公司，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导致、呼应、影响、抑制或煽动了这个时代的巨大社会变革。这些因素包括现代主义、非殖民化、女权主义和人口结构的变化。我还将询问，作为公共服务广播公司，英国广播公司如何支持诗人和诗歌，它如何使一些人家喻户晓，而把另一些人留给更稀薄的广播媒介，而把另一些人完全抛弃。英国广播公司以各种方式看待诗人和诗歌：作为一种非商业性的，“高雅”的艺术形式，带来声望;作为探索广播和电视正式可能性的一种方式;作为英国文学遗产的一个关键部分;作为对“国家故事”的肯定;作为在国外推广英国“软实力”的一种手段;最近，它被用作探索和代表现代英国声音多样性的一种手段。这主要是一部历史著作。我的大部分研究将以档案为基础。英国广播公司拥有大量未经审查的员工档案、内部备忘录和专门用于个人电视节目和连续剧的档案。我还将进行和记录一系列当事人的采访，包括诗人，导演和制片人。我的研究将在其更广泛的文化“使命”范围内对英国广播公司的诗歌电视输出进行分析，并将为批判性地评估其声明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.