{"id":13499,"date":"2022-04-25T13:04:53","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T11:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=206791"},"modified":"2022-04-25T13:24:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T11:24:08","slug":"the-bbc-at-100-tv-takes-off-in-the-1950s","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/the-bbc-at-100-tv-takes-off-in-the-1950s\/","title":{"rendered":"The BBC at 100: TV takes off in the 1950s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Elinor Evans\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Monday, 25 April 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>In the latest episode of our monthly series marking the centenary of the BBC, media historian David Hendy speaks to Matt Elton about the rise of television during the 1950s \u2013 and how the decade saw the BBC increasingly clash with the political world.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-206791-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/04\/BBC_history_episode_5-2c905f5.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/04\/BBC_history_episode_5-2c905f5.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/04\/BBC_history_episode_5-2c905f5.mp3<\/a><\/audio><p><strong>David Hendy is the author of <em>The BBC: A People\u2019s History<\/em> (Profile Books, 2022)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/books\/gothic-an-illustrated-history\/9780500252512&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\"><strong>Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/BBC-Peoples-History-David-Hendy\/dp\/1781255253?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Buy now on Amazon<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/the-bbc\/david-hendy\/9781781255254&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\"><strong>Buy now on Waterstones<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Elinor Evans Published: Monday, 25 April 2022 at 12:00 am In the latest episode of our monthly series marking the centenary of the BBC, media historian David Hendy speaks to Matt Elton about the rise of television during the 1950s \u2013 and how the decade saw the BBC increasingly clash with the political world. 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