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A War of Words

The propaganda battle for the Second World War, which included a fashion show in Buenos Aires but left out football fixtures. Recorded with a Sage Gateshead audience.

A fashion show in Buenos Aires was put on for propaganda but football fixtures were deemed too risky. New Generation Thinker Dr Christopher Bannister, from the University of Manchester, looks at attempts to influence opinion about World War II in Latin America.
Although relatively untouched by violence, support in such a strategically important region was vital to the British war effort. Bombs and bullets were no use here, so fashion shows, book launches, soap operas and films became the British Ministry of Information's weapons of war as New Generation Thinker Dr Christopher Bannister, from the University of Manchester, explains.

Recorded with an audience at Sage Gateshead for 成人快手 Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival.

New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by 成人快手 Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select ten academics each year who can turn their research into radio.

Producer: Jacqueline Smith.

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  • Mon 19 Mar 2018 22:45

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