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The BBC and Its Competitors - The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom. Volume 5: Competition. By Asa Briggs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp. xxvi + 1133. $90.00. - The Way We Live Now. By Richard Hoggart. London: Chatto & Windus, 1995. Pp. xvi + 352. $35.00. - Muggeridge: The Biography. By Richard Ingrams. New York: HarperCollins, 1995. Pp. xiv + 264. $27.50.

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The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom. Volume 5: Competition. By Asa Briggs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp. xxvi + 1133. $90.00.
The Way We Live Now. By Richard Hoggart. London: Chatto & Windus, 1995. Pp. xvi + 352. $35.00.
Muggeridge: The Biography. By Richard Ingrams. New York: HarperCollins, 1995. Pp. xiv + 264. $27.50.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2014

D. L. LeMahieu
D. L. LeMahieu*
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Lake Forest College
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Journal of British Studies , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , April 1998 , pp. 222 - 227
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