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798:. However, Reith had been in favour of the company being taken into public ownership, as he felt that despite the boards under which he had served so far, allowing him a high degree of latitude on all matters, not all future members might do so. Although opposed by some, including members of the Government, the BBC became a corporation in 1927. Reith was
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agency which had a monopoly on broadcasting. Reith, an intensely moralistic executive, was in full charge. His goal was to broadcast, "All that is best in every department of human knowledge, endeavour and achievement.... The preservation of a high moral tone is obviously of paramount importance."
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were destroyed by German bombing. Reith urged the local authorities to begin planning postwar reconstruction. He was dismissed from his government post at a very difficult time for
Churchill in 1942, following the loss of Singapore. Pressured by Tory backbenchers who wanted a Conservative in the
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Britain than most government offices rules the B.B.C. with a hand of granite". He "made the B.B.C. an expression of his nonconformist conscience, and also what is probably the finest broadcasting organization in the world"; Gunther predicted that he "is almost
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Germany on the way to being a real power in Europe again. They are being
1487:. Reith all but severed it, burning the correspondence from Bowser, after he married his wife Muriel in 1921. They remained married until his death in 1971; and Reith recorded Bowser's birthday in his diary for the rest of his life. He and Muriel had two children, Christopher (1926–2017) and
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for a general manager for an as-yet unformed
British Broadcasting Company in 1922. He later admitted that he felt he possessed the credentials necessary to "manage any company". He managed to retrieve his original application from a post box after re-thinking his approach, guessing that his
438:. His concept of broadcasting as a way of educating the masses marked for a long time the BBC and similar organisations around the world. An engineer by profession, and standing at 6 feet 6 inches (1.98 m) tall, he was a larger-than-life figure who was a pioneer in his field.
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realising soon enough that "life is for living," and suggested he perhaps still did not acknowledge that fact. He also stated that since his departure as
Director-General, he had watched almost no television and listened to virtually no radio. "When I leave a thing, I leave it," he said.
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Davidson telephoned Reith about his idea on 7 May, saying he had spoken to
Baldwin, who had said he would not stop the broadcast, but would prefer it not to happen. Reith later wrote: "A nice position for me to be in between Premier and Primate, bound mightily to vex one or other."
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revenue. There was no paid advertising on the BBC; all the revenue came from a tax on receiving sets. Highbrow audiences greatly enjoyed it. At a time when
American, Australian and Canadian stations were drawing huge audiences cheering for their local teams with the broadcast of
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Charlie Bowser. Reith had what has been variously described as "a deep affection" and "love" for Bowser. Opinions have varied on the nature of Reith's relationship; in the view of both his biographer, and his daughter, it was
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were instituted in 1948 in his honour. These annual radio talks, with the aim of advancing "public understanding and debate about significant issues of contemporary interest" have been held every year since, with the exception of 1992.
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Reith earned a reputation for prudishness in sexual matters. There is an old BBC legend that he once caught an announcer kissing a secretary and decreed that in future the announcer must not read the late-night religious programme
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cleavage between Reithian management methods: energetic, thorough and highly organised, and the established style of the British civil service at that time: at best, calm and deliberative; at worst, ponderously slow.
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469:, Reith was the fifth son and the youngest, by ten years, of the seven children of the Rev. George Reith, a Scottish Presbyterian minister of the College Church at Glasgow and later Moderator of the
752:, wanted to broadcast a "peace appeal" drawn up by church leaders which called for an immediate end to the strike, renewal of government subsidies to the coal industry and no cuts in miners' wages.
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commission in 1921. He returned to Glasgow as general manager of an engineering firm. In 1922, he returned to London, where he started working as secretary to the London
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has entered the dictionary to denote a style of management, particularly with relation to broadcasting. Reith summarised the BBC's purpose in three words:
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patents; associations of concert artists, authors, playwrights, composers, music publishers, theatre managers, wireless manufacturers."
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1390:1889 – October 1917: John Charles Walsham Reith
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810:, profiling Reith in 2007, noted that the term
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1774:The BBC Story – The BBC under pressure
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2024:"Unicorn Moves Again – HM Frigate UNICORN"
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1640:(online ed.), Oxford University Press
1506:When Winston Went to War with the Wireless
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1935:Britain between the Wars 1918–1940
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2542:My Father – Reith of the BBC
2267:"London Gazette, 17 October 1917"
2202:"London Gazette, 29 October 1940"
2185:"London Gazette, 16 January 1940"
1948:Twentieth Century British History
1070:National Film Finance Corporation
424:British Broadcasting Company Ltd.
3120:UK MPs who were granted peerages
2698:Parliament of the United Kingdom
2309:"London Gazette, 7 October 1921"
2219:"London Gazette, 1 January 1945"
2168:"London Gazette, 2 January 1939"
2134:"London Gazette, 1 January 1927"
1990:"BBC – Radio 4 – Reith Lectures"
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2596:UK public library membership
1961:Contemporary British History
1652:UK public library membership
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598:British Broadcasting Company
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2822:First Commissioner of Works
2680:Director-General of the BBC
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1520:He was commemorated in the
1314:Order of the British Empire
1228:Reith wrote two volumes of
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981:First Commissioner of Works
824:Public Broadcasting Service
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2540:Leishman, Marista (2008),
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1259:Night of the Long Knives
746:Archbishop of Canterbury
2768:Minister of Information
1950:(2013) 24#2 pp 169–200.
1811:, BBC Television (2007)
1513:; Bowser was played by
1473:, GCVO, GBE, CB, TD, PC
1380:(KT) (18 February 1969)
969:Minister of Information
784:British Thomson-Houston
662:from the BBC programme
156:Minister of Information
3105:Scottish Presbyterians
3075:Royal Marines officers
3060:People from Stonehaven
3015:Knights of the Thistle
2607:, Palgrave Macmillan,
2603:Paulu, Burton (1981),
2578:10.1093/ref:odnb/31596
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2522:McIntyre, I. (1993),
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1856:Lord Reith Looks Back
1630:McIntyre, I. (2006),
1367:Efficiency Decoration
1361:1945 New Year Honours
1329:1939 New Year Honours
1325:Royal Victorian Order
1318:1934 Birthday Honours
1307:1927 New Year Honours
1188:Lord Reith Looks Back
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2558:McIntyre, I (2004).
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1691:. 10 November 2012.
1424:The Right Honourable
1378:Order of the Thistle
1350:County of Kincardine
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2030:on 16 December 2010
1601:"Reith the Warrior"
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1190:in 1967, filmed at
1182:from 1965 to 1968.
892:Neville Chamberlain
690:1926 general strike
574:Reith resigned his
514:5th Scottish Rifles
503:Ernest William Moir
479:the Glasgow Academy
179:Neville Chamberlain
2753:Political offices
2101:"Reith of the BBC"
2078:Ashgate Publishing
1809:Greg Dyke on Reith
1495:In popular culture
1292:Honours and styles
1224:Biographical works
1192:Glasgow University
1180:Glasgow University
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647:John Reith's voice
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2778:Duff Cooper
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2640:1803–2005:
2377:21 December
2349:21 December
1742:Radio Times
1693:BBC Radio 4
1610:23 December
1501:Jack Thorne
1342:Baron Reith
1286:appeasement
1199:Stockbridge
1197:He died in
1176:Lord Rector
1132:Henry Moore
1112:Later years
1105:Black Death
1024:Beaverbrook
1009:Duff Cooper
989:Baron Reith
973:Southampton
928:advertising
875:Edward VIII
734:Radio Times
726:Radio Times
203:Duff Cooper
186:Preceded by
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2684:1927–1938
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2481:Boyle, A.
2398:BBC Online
2342:BBC Online
2115:28 January
2034:28 January
1858:, BBC 1967
1698:18 January
1544:References
1485:homosexual
1459:, PC, RNVR
1346:Stonehaven
1334:Member of
1206:Midlothian
1075:The BBC's
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945:Boat races
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335:Politician
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260:Midlothian
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