A leading historian and expert on the BBC, and the author of numerous classic scholarly publications, Asa Briggs is Chancellor of the Open University, and Vice-President of the Historical Society.
`He has, once again, written much more than an institutional
history. The narrative is controlled and assured, with telling
variations of pace and an effective use of light and shade. The
achievement is monumental.
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Ian McIntyre, The Times
`magnificent five-volume history ... In this magnificent piece of
scholarship, Lord Briggs makes history become the web which enfolds
us all.'
Gillian Reynolds, Sunday Telegraph
`Among the fascinations of Briggs's tome is the reminder of the
many able directors-general the BBC might have had.'
Brenda Maddox, The Times
`a mammoth undertaking ... enough information about the BBC between
1955 and 1974 to qualify for Mastermind ... The author's practised
hand gives the voluminous text a coherent shape ... Briggs has a
sure touch when dealing with Westminster and Whitehall.'
Times Higher Educational Supplement
`impossible to imagine a more thorough, comprehensive and balanced
account - and difficult to suppose that it could have been written
with a less tedious pen: the footnotes alone, which must be in
total long enough to fill a separate volume, are a delight'
The Author, Autumn, 1995
`magisterial and comprehensive ... This is a monumental work of
scholarship which could only have been undertaken as a public
duty.'
The Spectator
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