ABSTRACT
The technological revolution of radio effected numerous changes in the social behaviour of the nation in the era between two terrible and traumatic conflicts. Broadcasting made a significant contribution to the creation of a more cohesive sense of British national identity. Broadcasting broadened the knowledge and interests of listeners, it changed the pattern of family life and introduced a completely new phase of leisure activity. The tendency of broadcasting to give greater publicity to national events was often at the expense of local activities. In politics, the focus moved inexorably towards the broadcast speeches of national leaders, anxious to contact a newly enfranchised mass electorate. By 1939, the BBC had successfully reached an enormously wide variety of groups in British society by exploiting the great power of broadcasting. The BBC effectively represented the tremendous social void which existed between political authority and most of the British working class.
