The BBC: A Century on Air—David Hendy (New York, NY, USA: Public Affairs, Hachette Book Group, 2022, 638 pp.)

In 2022, a number of literary critics observed that exactly 100 years had elapsed since 1922, the year Ezra Pound once proclaimed as “Year one new era.” He was doubtless referring to publication T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land well James Joyce’s Ulysses. It Einstein won Nobel Prize in physics. Not generally noted, but certainly social importance entry BBC into world radio broadcasting—a major event shaping culture Great Britain.