1980, ISBN: 0786223065

In 1940, as World War II heats up, the BBC is doing its best to fulfill its singular mission: saving Britain from despondency and panic without resorting to lies. "Broadcasting House was… Mehr…

In 1940, as World War II heats up, the BBC is doing its best to fulfill its singular mission: saving Britain from despondency and panic without resorting to lies. "Broadcasting House was in fact dedicated to the strangest project of the war, or of any war, that is, telling the truth." Surrounded by sandbags that are literally going to seed, this London landmark has come to resemble an ocean liner both inside and out. "With the best engineers in the world," Penelope Fitzgerald observes, "and a crew varying between the intensely respectable and the barely sane, it looked ready to scorn any disaster of less than Titanic scale." Though there are no icebergs in Human Voices, Fitzgerald's perfectly pitched 1980 novel, danger does loom on several decks. For a start, the Department of Recorded Programmes (DRP) is in for a shakeup. Sam Brooks, its director (RPD), has long ruffled the Controllers' feathers owing to his need for several nubile assistants--no wonder his unit is sometimes labeled the Seraglio. This time, however, his penchant for young women isn't the issue. Instead, it's the fact that RPD takes his calling too seriously. For instance, in response to a directive that England's heritage not be lost, he and a crack team once spent two weeks recording a creaky church door in Heather Lickington. At this point, only Jeff Haggard, the Director of Programme Planning (DPP), can save Sam; but having done that for the past 10 years, DPP is suffering from severe BBC bat contemporary,fiction,genre fiction,historical,literary,literature and fiction,war Literature & Fiction, Thorndike Press<

ISBN: 0786223065

[SR: 4849161], Taschenbuch, [EAN: 9780786223060], Großdruck, Thorndike Press, Thorndike Press, Book, [PU: Thorndike Press], Thorndike Press, 14166886031, Militär, 419922031, Historische R… Mehr…

[SR: 4849161], Taschenbuch, [EAN: 9780786223060], Großdruck, Thorndike Press, Thorndike Press, Book, [PU: Thorndike Press], Thorndike Press, 14166886031, Militär, 419922031, Historische Romane, 14166873031, Unterhaltungsliteratur, 117, Literatur & Fiktion, 541686, Kategorien, 186606, Bücher, 14166940031, Krieg, 14166873031, Unterhaltungsliteratur, 117, Literatur & Fiktion, 541686, Kategorien, 186606, Bücher, 67924011, Historisch, 67216011, Populäre Belletristik, 66034011, Belletristik, 54071011, Genres, 52044011, Fremdsprachige Bücher, 67926011, Krieg, 67216011, Populäre Belletristik, 66034011, Belletristik, 54071011, Genres, 52044011, Fremdsprachige Bücher<

ISBN: 0786223065

The human voices of this novel are those of the BBC in the first years of the Second World War -- the time when the Concert Hall was turned into a dormitory for both sexes, the whole buil… Mehr…

The human voices of this novel are those of the BBC in the first years of the Second World War -- the time when the Concert Hall was turned into a dormitory for both sexes, the whole building became a target for enemy bombers, and in the BBC, as elsewhere, some had to fail and some had to die. It does not pretend to be an accurate history of Broadcasting House in those years, but one is left with the sensation, said William Boyd in London Magazine, that this is what it was really like. contemporary,fiction,genre fiction,historical,literary,literature and fiction,war Literature & Fiction, Thorndike Press<

2000, ISBN: 0786223065

[EAN: 9780786223060], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Thorndike Press], Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside.

2000, ISBN: 9780786223060

Thorndike Press, 2000-03. Paperback. Good., Thorndike Press, 2000-03