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What influence has the BBC had on history?


Founded as the British Broadcasting Company in October 1922, the BBC has sought to ‘inform, educate and entertain’ for a century. Facing an uncertain future, what impact has it had on the past? ‘The BBC has always done far more than reflect the contemporary’ David Hendy, Author of The BBC: A People’s History (Profile, 2022) To write the history of the BBC, Asa Briggs once said, is ‘to write the history of everything else’.

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