Peacock Committee and UK Broadcasting Policy

This is the first full-length scholarly study of the genesis and influence of Alan Peacock's intellectually radical "Report of the Committee on Financing the BBC" (1986), which fundamentally altered the principles governing the development of broadcasting policy in the UK.

This is the first full-length scholarly study of the genesis and influence of Alan Peacock's intellectually radical "Report of the Committee on Financing the BBC" (1986), which fundamentally altered the principles governing the development of broadcasting policy in the UK.

JANET JONES is Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the University of the West of England, UK. She is the co-editor of Big Brother International: Formats, Critics and Publics (2004), and worked for fifteen years as a broadcast journalist with the BBC.

TOM O'MALLEY is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK. His previous publications include Regulating the Press (co-authored, 2000), The Media in Wales: Voices of a Small Nation (2005) and Reconstructing the Past: History in the Mass Media 1890-2005 (co-edited, 2008).