The B B C and the Bombing of Broadcasting House

The b b c was clearly on the target list of the luftwuffer. The german war ams were to take out as much as possible the infrastructure in britain. And broadcasting, they knew, was part of this. Its transmitters, its buildings all over the country. Now the very epicentre of the b b c operation was broadcasting house - a great big, gleaming white stone building. There is a sense of mirageri of shared experience of being under siege. People start to use first names. Dress codes change. In many ways, i think the other way in which the b b cs operations change fundamentally is that it becomes much more porous