In this first part of a six-part series produced for Media Network in the 1980’s in the heat of the Cold War, Jonathan Marks delves into the earliest attempts to […]
Series: Media Wars: Radio Propaganda Past and Present
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This second episode on the history of radio propaganda looks at the media wars in the Dutch East Indies, present-day Indonesia, in the 1940’s. The programme discusses NIROM, the official […]
What’s the difference between 1946, 1962 and 1982 when it comes to radio propaganda? There are interesting parallels, in fact, between the Indonesian struggle for independence from Dutch colonial rule, […]
This edition of Media Wars looks at how governments often make a mess of the message they are trying to put across. We started with Radio South Atlantic, which was […]
This episode looks at clandestine broadcasting across Africa, illustrated with unique off-air recordings from the late Richard Ginbey. He was based just outside Johnannesburg at the time, but managed to […]
When this final programme in our series on radio propaganda was produced in 1982, we were probably at the height of the popularity of international radio broadcasting and the Cold […]