Bibliography

This bibliography, the core of which was compiled by Caroline Mitchell in November 2013, is also a collective work in progress and will be updated periodically.  If you have something to add, please contact us.

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Baade C. (2007) BBC between factory and home. Music while you work and women listeners at the wartime BBC, Feminist Media Studies, Vol. 7, No. 3, 2007.

Badenoch, A.W. (2007). Time consuming: women’s radio and the reconstruction of national narratives in western Germany 1945-1948. German history, 25(1), 46-71.

Baker, Jeannine. (2017). “Woman to Woman: Australian Feminists’ Embrace of Radio Broadcasting, 1930s–1950s. Australian Feminist Studies 32 (93): 292–308. https://doi.org/10.1080/08164649.2017.1407643.

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Feldman, S. (2000) Twin Peaks: The staying power of BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. In Mitchell, C. (ed.) Women and Radio: Airing Differences London: Routledge: pp.64-73.

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