{"id":809,"date":"2015-09-15T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/?p=809"},"modified":"2022-09-16T15:00:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T14:00:04","slug":"elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/2015\/09\/15\/elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/radionewsroom1945.jpg\" alt=\"A woman is seated at a desk holding a sheet of paper. A woman is standing behind her, reading the document, alongside a man, who is lighting a pipe. The women are both holding cigarettes\" class=\"wp-image-21\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/radionewsroom1945.jpg 976w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/radionewsroom1945-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/radionewsroom1945-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/radionewsroom1945-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/radionewsroom1945-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/radionewsroom1945-200x113.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/radionewsroom1945-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/radionewsroom1945-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/radionewsroom1945-900x506.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 976px) 100vw, 976px\" \/><figcaption>1945 Radio Newsreel \u2013 BBC staff discussing a report on the General Election &nbsp;\u00a9BBC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The BBC pioneered the broadcasting of General Elections on radio and television. This edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/historyofthebbc\/100-voices\/elections\/\">100 Voices that Made the BBC<\/a>\u00a0considers how despite resistance from some quarters, the BBC found a way to bring the mysterious world of Parliament and politicians into living rooms.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><br>This selection of clips from the BBC Oral History Collection was first published in 2015, to coincide with the UK General Election campaign that year. It features archive interviews with: Grace Wyndham Goldie, Ian Jacob, Leonard Miall, E.R. Thompson, Stephen Bonarjee, Harold Wilson, Hugh Carleton Greene, Paul Fox, Tony Benn, John Grist, William Whitelaw, Ludovic Kennedy, Cliff Michelmore, Robin Day, John Cole, and Margaret Douglas.<br><br>They offer vivid personal accounts of key moments in the evolution of political broadcasting since 1922. There are also sections on the evolving art of the political interview (including Jeremy Paxman\u2019s famous encounter with Michael Howard in 1997), party political broadcasts, the coverage of party conferences and Parliamentary debates, the use in the studio of computers and the famous \u2018Swingometer\u2019, the racist election campaign in Smethwick in 1964, and short profiles of Grace Wyndham Goldie, Richard Dimbleby and Robin Day.<br><br>Alongside selections from the Oral History Collection, the website features rarely-seen TV archive recordings of election night coverage and other key political programmes, downloadable copies of several key documents from the BBC\u2019s Written Archive Centre, and interviews with the elections expert David Butler, the former TV producer Suzanne Franks, and the former Head of BBC Political Programmes Sue Inglish, all recorded in 2015 especially for 100 Voices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC pioneered the broadcasting of General Elections on radio and television. This edition of 100 Voices that Made the BBC\u00a0considers how despite resistance from some quarters, the BBC found a way to bring the mysterious world of Parliament and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/2015\/09\/15\/elections\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":386,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[231936],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}