This volume covers ten critical years in the history of broadcasting: 1945 to 1955, during which television grew in popularity and the BBC lost its monopoly. Dealing not only with broadcasting policy, but with the changing arts and techniques of presenting various subjects, and exploring a society and culture now remote from our own. Lord Briggs is an exceptionally sure-footed guide through complicated facts ... an outstanding triumph. Many of his colleagues would regard any one of the five volumes as a lifetime's work. He deserves, once again, applause as well as our thanks.