Greece on Air

Amanda Wrigley (Research Fellow, University of Westminster) is a cultural historian who works on a broad range of topics, including ancient Greece in 20th-century British culture; radio and television programmes which adapt and create dramatic and literary forms; and mass media in formal and informal educational contexts. She is author of Performing Greek Drama in Oxford (2011), Greece on Air: Engagements with Ancient Greece on BBC Radio, 1920s-1960s (2015) and Greece on Screen: Greek Plays on British Television (forthcoming).She studied Classics as an undergraduate at Leeds and wrote her PhD thesis in the Department of Classical Studies at The Open University. She held posts in the Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford (2001-09) and the Classics Department, Northwestern University (2009-10) before moving to the University of Westminster in 2011. She is Associate Editor of The Radio Journal. For further information, see https://amandawrigley.wordpress.com.

Greece on Air extensively documents just how formidable Greece's presence on British radio used to be ... a compelling account of the diversity in these decades of public participation in ancient Greece's radio life -- and beyond.

• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ; NOTE ON CONVENTIONS ; PART ONE ; INTRODUCTION. BROAD(-ER)CASTING ANCIENT GREECE ; PART TWO ; CONCLUSION. PUBLIC PROPERTY; OR, CLASSICS FOR ALL ; APPENDIX. PRODUCTION CHRONOLOGY ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX