Persian Service

The BBC and British Interests in Iran

Autor: Annabelle Sreberny, Massoumeh Torfeh

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Vazba: Pevná

Vydavatel: Bloomsbury Publishing

Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele

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Rumour and speculation in Iran have been rife for generations that the BBC has had a hand in every p...

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Autor

Annabelle Sreberny, Massoumeh Torfeh

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydáno

2014

Stránek

232

EAN

9781848859814

ISBN

1848859813

Enbook ID

05105543

Vydavatel

Bloomsbury Publishing

Hmotnost

434

Rozměry

227 x 147 x 23

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Rumour and speculation in Iran have been rife for generations that the BBC has had a hand in every political upheaval in the country. In this vein the BBC has become a notable element in the complex and tortured narrative of Anglo-Iranian relations. The BBC Persian Service was initially developed in 1940 to prepare and broadcast British war-time propaganda. And it has since been seen by many in Iran as an integral part of British policy-making in the region. Thirty years ago, the Shah of Iran regarded the BBC Persian Service radio as his 'enemy number one' and held it responsible for promoting the revolution of 1979. Only a couple decades earlier, the BBC Persian Service was widely accused for having been complicit in the CIA-led 1953 coup against Prime Minister Mohammad Musaddiq. And a decade earlier, the BBC Persian Service was strongly linked to the British-planned removal of Reza Shah in 1941. The BBC Persian service has frequently been perceived as an entity which was not simply a vehicle to record the changes occurring in Iran and throughout the Middle East, but rather an active agent of change. In this book, Annabelle Sreberny and Massoumeh Torfeh track the history of the BBC Persian Service, critically analysing both the assumptions that the BBC is a standard bearer for objective reporting and representations of it as a simple tool of Western interests. Also examining the history of relations between the Foreign Office and the BBC Persian Service, they demonstrate that these have never been pre-defined or rigid. Instead, they explore how both institutions have moved from an interest in what can crudely be called state-orchestrated 'propaganda' to a more subtle advocacy of fair and balanced journalism as the best agent of British values and influence.

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