BBC: A PEOPLES HISTORY (PB)

In 1922, a tiny group of men and women came together to found the BBC, using what had been a weapon of war - Marconi's wireless - to remake culture for the good of humanity. Twenty years later, when George Orwell famously quit the Corporation, he decided he was done 'doing work that produces no result'. Yet the BBC is now one of Britain's most beloved institutions. This is a stirring and monumental history of the British cultural stalwart which created modern broadcasting one hundred years ago.