Private Faces in Public Places
Richard Hoggart analyses the role of public broadcasting in validating a cultural society for his fifth Reith lecture entitled 'Private Faces in Public Places'.
The British academic and Assistant Director General of UNESCO Richard Hoggart explores the concepts of communication in his Reith lecture series entitled 'Only connect'.
In this lecture entitled 'Private Faces in Public Places', Richard Hoggart considers the large scale public communication of broadcasting. He analyses the natures and societies that broadcasting can highlight due to its reflective outlook. Mainly focusing on television, he explores the structural relevance of the output and its reflection of the culture it lives in. He asks who has the power to decide what parts of the culture should be promoted and what should be hidden. What is an ideal broadcaster?
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- Tue 14 Dec 1971 09:00麻豆社 Radio 4
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