Download or read book The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom: Volume I: The Birth of Broadcasting written by Asa Briggs and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-03-23 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first of a five-volume history of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom. The Birth of Broadcasting covers early amateur experiments in wireless telephony in America and in England, the pioneer days at Writtle in Essex and elsewhere, and the coming of organized broadcasting and its rapid growth during the first four years of the BBC's existence as a private Company before it became a public Corporation in January 1927. Briggs also considers the impact of wireless on society, and he has much to say about personalities and programmes as well as Corporation policies.