Transnational Radio Monitoring in the Twentieth Century

Suzanne Bardgett was Head of Research and Academic Partnerships at Imperial War Museums (IWM) from 2010 to 2023, and during 2015-2016 led the AHRC- supported international research network on the BBC Monitoring collection. She now writes books for IWM, and is Series Editor of The Holocaust and its Contexts.Friederike Kind-Kovács is a senior researcher at the Hannah Arendt Institute at Technische Universität Dresden and a lecturer at Regensburg University. She is a twentieth-century historian with a special interest in the transnational history of Central Europe and especially the history of childhood. She is the author of Budapest’s Children: Humanitarian Relief in the Aftermath of the Great War.Vincent Kuitenbrouwer is Senior Lecturer of History of International Relations at the University of Amsterdam. He is specialized in nineteenth- and twentieth-century imperial history, and has a special interest in colonial media networks. He currently works on Dutch international radio broadcasting in the late colonial period and the era of decolonization.

• Introduction – The Act of Listening: Radio Monitoring, 1930–1990 1. The Battle for Neutrality: The Listening Service of the Dutch Government in Exile During the Second World War 2. The Raj in Radio Wars: BBC Monitoring Reports on Broadcasts for Indian Audiences During the Second World War 3. “Listening Became Indispensable for Life …”: Strategies and Goals of Radio Monitoring in the Warsaw Ghetto 4. The Sound of Revolution: BBC Monitoring and the Hungarian uprising, 1956 5. Talking to Listeners: Clandestine Audiences in the Early Cold War 6. Comrades at War: Soviet Radio Broadcasting during the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War