Now available in five volumes, Asa Briggs' History of British Broadcasting in the UK provides an exhaustive chronicle of the BBC's activities, achievements, and personnell--from the early days of wireless broadcasting and the Corporation's foundation, through its establishment as a part ofhome life and role in the Second WOrld War, to the end of its monopoly and attempts to reflect the needs of a changing society.Competition, the latest volume in Asa Brigg's monumental history, covers a period of 20 uears, from the end of the BBC's monopoloy in 1955 to the mid 1970s. It lookds at the history of the BBC in an age of competiton, so inevitaly contains much fascinating material on the `independent' radio andtelevision companies as well as the BBC. There are chapters on the reporting of the Suez Crisis, the Pilkington Committee, the governorship of Hugh Greene (the man Mary Whitehouse said was `responsible for the collapse which characterized the sixties and seventies'), Radio Piracy, the introductionof new technologies, and the BBC Jubilee.