The BBC: A People's History (Hardback)

'David Hendy's magisterial The BBC: A People's History is a truly wonderful book. Captivating, compelling, moving, and richly detailed it is both a ground-breaking and important history of our national broadcaster and one of the best things I have read on the transformation of British society, culture, and politics since the 1920s' - Matt Houlbrook, Professor of Cultural History at University of Birmingham

'A superb account of an institution that was both the Auntie and Teenage Rebel of British society from the Great War to the culture wars. David Hendy stages a cast of brilliant and sometimes flawed characters in a page-turning narrative. Quite simply wonderful' - Robert Gildea, Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford

'Sympathetic but never uncritical, a masterpiece of lucid presentation, and about the programme makers and footsoldiers as much as about the suits in Broadcasting House, this is the authoritative, much-needed history of the BBC's first century - a century at the heart of British everyday life. I hope it does its bit to counter the vandals' - David Kynaston, historian and Visiting Professor at Kingston University