Not All Propaganda Is Art

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Description

I contributed to two episodes of New York producer Benjamen Walker's podcast series, Not All Propaganda Is Art, available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. My contributions focused on the British theatre critic Kenneth Tynan's fascination with Bertolt Brecht.

Period6 Feb 2024 → 19 Mar 2024

Media contributions

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Media contributions

  • TitleNot All Propaganda Is Art. Episode 7: Manufacturing Dissent
    Degree of recognitionInternational
    Media name/outletApple Podcasts/Radiotopia
    Media typeWeb
    Duration/Length/Size59 minutes
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date19/03/24
    DescriptionIn 1959, Anti-Americanism surged in the UK. England seethed over America’s treatment of its Prime Minister who was smacked down for daring to use diplomacy to resolve the crisis over divided Germany. In 1959 England also fretted over a new American export: the Beatnik. The British foreign office forcefully responded with a report advocating for “ an increased effort in the field of press, radio and television in the U.K. to say the right kind of things about the Americans.” This is the very moment Kenneth Tynan was commissioned to make a documentary for British Television about American Non-conformism and Dissent. We take a close look at one of the Cold War's most bizarre and inspired artifacts of Anti Anti-American propaganda.

    Shownotes: Laura Bradley writes on Brecht and German theater. Kenneth Tynan’s documentary aired on January 27th, 1960 and then was supposedly erased (it wasn’t).
    Producer/AuthorBenjamen Walker
    PersonsLaura Bradley
  • TitleNot All Propaganda is Art. Episode 3: The Man Who Was Thursday's Children
    Degree of recognitionInternational
    Media name/outletApple Podcasts / Radiotopia
    Media typeWeb
    Duration/Length/Size1 hour 3 minutes
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date6/02/24
    DescriptionIn 1956 London Theater critic Kenneth Tynan helped launch a youth movement committed to exposing social and political issues on stage, on screen and in literature. We take a close look at the operators and opportunists behind England’s Angry Young Men.

    Shownotes: Michael Billington wrote for the Guardian, Celia Brayfield wrote Rebel Writers, Clare Bucknell wrote The Treasuries Laura Bradley writes on Brecht.
    Producer/AuthorBenjamen Walker
    PersonsLaura Bradley