Hi Michelle.
It would probably be an idea to try writing to:
BBC Written Archives,
Caversham Park,
Reading, RG4 8TZ, England.
Hope thats of some help.
Graeme Stevenson, Scotland.
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> Sent: 20 January 2004 09:42
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> Subject: [BBC-HISTORY] Charles Siepmann Query
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> This is a query from Michele Hilmes of Wisconsin
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> Dear list folk -- I wonder if you could help me with a
> research question. I would like to find out what, if any,
> critical discussion Charles Siepmann's work in the 1940s-50s received in
> Britain, in the press or in policy/BBC circles.
>
> Siepmann is the former Director of Talks (later Regional Director) at the
> BBC in the 1930s, who went to the US just before the war and became the
> co-author of the "Blue Book" -- the legendary though never really enforced
> FCC report officially titled "Public Service Responsibility of Broadcast
> Licensees" that appeared in 1946 -- and author of two more influential
> studies of American radio, "Radio's Second Chance" (1946) and "Radio,
> Television, and Society" in 1950.
>
> He was one of the first in the US to argue for the separation of sponsor
> and program production, and what I'd really like to know is if his ideas
> and publications had any effect on the introduction of commercial
> television in Britain.
>
> And in a separate but related question, is the Radio Times from this era
> indexed anywhere?
>
> Any help or guidance to sources would be greatly appreciated! -- Michele
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