The Listener

Literary/ Cultural Context Essay

Chris Baldick (Goldsmiths College, University of London)

Ed. by Chris Baldick, Goldsmiths College, University of London
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.08: English Writing and Culture of the early Twentieth Century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Chris Baldick (Goldsmiths College, University of London), Peter Childs (Newman University), Louise McDonald (Newman University)

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Date of occurrence 1929-01-16-1991-01-03

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The Listener (1929-91) was a weekly magazine of the British Broadcasting Corporation, established to support the BBC’s educational and cultural mission by providing print versions of radio talks, along with reviews of books and the arts. It quickly became Britain’s most widely-read literary-cultural magazine, with a circulation of 70,000 in the mid-1930s, eventually peaking at 143,000 in 1948, before declining steadily from the 1960s. Under its first editor, Richard Lambert (to 1939), it became a remarkable showcase not only for literary radio talks such as W. B. Yeats’s “Modern Poetry” (1936) and Virginia Woolf’s “Craftsmanship” (1937), but for new poetry.

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Citation: Baldick, Chris. "The Listener". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 April 2021 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=19628, accessed 25 April 2024.]

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