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Reader's Digest
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough talks to Professor Sarah Churchwell and Victoria Bazin about the way reading habits and office conversation changed in the 1920s.
How reading habits changed as a growing middle class sought topics of conversation. Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough finds out about the history of the Reader’s Digest, talking to Professor Sarah Churchwell and Dr Victoria Bazin. The first of five short features exploring cultural life in England and America in 1922 - the year the BBC was founded.
Producer: Torquil MacLeod
Last on
Mon 19 Dec 2022
22:45
BBC Radio 3
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- Mon 19 Dec 2022 22:45BBC Radio 3