For this final issue in the year of the BBC’s centenary, the Book Reviews section has commissioned a special ‘article’. In this issue, we wanted to publish a number of short reviews by critics and academics of their favourite books about the BBC. We asked some authors, writing from different places and at different stages in their careers, to choose and write about a favourite book about the BBC. We did not expect these to be the classic history books about the BBC nor did we expect to find some of the very good books which reviewed the position of the BBC as it approached its centenary; David Hendy’s The BBC: a People’s History (2022) and The War Against the BBC (2020) by Patrick Barwise and Peter York are good examples of this but we encouraged authors to choose less contemporary books.

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最喜欢的关于 BBC 的书籍：档案、轶事、政策和节目

对于 BBC 百年诞辰的最后一期，书评部分已委托撰写了一篇特别的“文章”。在本期中，我们希望发表一些评论家和学者对他们最喜欢的关于 BBC 的书籍的简短评论。我们询问了一些来自不同地方、处于职业生涯不同阶段的作者，选择并撰写一本关于 BBC 的最喜欢的书。我们没有想到这些会成为关于 BBC 的经典历史书籍，也没有想到会找到一些非常好的书籍来回顾 BBC 在接近百年之际的地位。大卫·亨迪的BBC：一部人民的历史（2022 年）和对 BBC 的战争Patrick Barwise 和 Peter York 的 (2020) 就是很好的例子，但我们鼓励作者选择不太现代的书籍。