Lodhi, A. 2018. 'Countries in the Air': Travel and Geomodernism in Louis MacNeice's BBC Features. Media History. 24 (2), pp. 226-238. https://doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2018.1471349
| Title | 'Countries in the Air': Travel and Geomodernism in Louis MacNeice's BBC Features |
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| Type | Journal article |
| Authors | Lodhi, A. |
| Abstract | In the middle stretch of his twenty-two-year BBC career, the poet and producer Louis MacNeice earned a reputation as one of the ‘undisputed masters of creative sound broadcasting’, a reputation derived, in part, from a huge range of radio features that were founded upon his journeys abroad. Through close examination of some of his most significant overseas soundscapes – including Portrait of Rome (1947) and Portrait of Delhi (1948) – this article will consider the role and function of travel in shaping MacNeice’s engagement with the radio feature as a modernist form at a particular transcultural moment when Britain moved through the end of the Second World War and the eventual disintegration of its empire. |
| Keywords | BBC Radio, Empire, Features, Geomodernism, Spatiality, Travel, MacNeice. |
| Journal | Media History |
| Journal citation | 24 (2), pp. 226-238 |
| ISSN | 1368-8804 |
| Year | 2018 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
| Accepted author manuscript | |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2018.1471349 |
| Publication dates | |
| Published | 11 May 2018 |