Rose Macaulay’s The World My Wilderness (1950) rewrites post-Second World War crises of displacement, child combat, and state re-integration through the genre of the domestic melodrama. Adolescent protagonists Barbary and Raoul move from France to London at the end of the war as both combatants and refugees, having spent the conflict aiding the R…[Read more]

This article approaches the problem of reconstructing the culturally situated audience experience of radio programming through the example of Louis MacNeice’s wartime radio broadcasts, notably “Alexander Nevsky” and “Christopher Columbus”. The article draws on audience research reports, internal correspondence, and close analysis of the broadcasts…[Read more]