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Randolph Quirk

In: The Future of Broadcasting

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  • Richard Hoggart
  • Janet Morgan

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When Edmund Burke seized upon the idea of the press as the fourth estate (implying equal power with the Commons, the Lords, and the Church), he was helping to elevate the media to a position far above their station.1 When the Times Educational Supplement in 1932 called radio the fifth estate, a still greater flattery was perpetrated, and the BBC has needed little encouragement to try and live up to it. In this spirit, Andrew Timothy, following a month’s scrutiny of radio output, concludes that ‘the BBC has a clear duty to uphold the standards of spoken English’,2 a plea that seeks support from an unattributed quotation in the form of a resounding rhetorical question: ‘For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?’

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  • Richard Hoggart & Janet Morgan, 1982. "Randolph Quirk," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Richard Hoggart & Janet Morgan (ed.), The Future of Broadcasting, chapter 6, pages 81-99, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-05440-4_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-05440-4_6
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