Radio Empire: the BBC's Eastern Service and Emergence of Global Anglophone Novel

Initially created to counteract broadcasts from Nazi Germany, the BBC's Eastern Service became a cauldron of global modernism and an unlikely nexus of artistic exchange. Directed at an educated Indian audience, its programming provided remarkable moments: Listeners in India heard James Joyce reading from on the eve of independence, as well as the literary criticism of E. M. Forster and the works of Indian writers living in London.