「ジョンリースとＢＢＣ英国放送」の考察にあたって－（予習）・・・

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廣淵先生の「ＢＢＣ英国放送講座」の連載が始り、いいよ核心に入ってきました。 （廣淵先生のBlog、こちらから入れます・・・）
廣淵先生の魅力ある講義にはまってしまい、このところ、多大なる好奇心をもって連載記事拝読中です。
しかし、
全くもって事前の基礎知識なし・・・
（はずかしながら、過去の経験にあらざる事態となり、、、）

ならば我輩、さっそくにも
いかに不肖の「俄か聴講生」といえども、何らかの予習を致したく参考資料等入手したく思い、気ままにWeb世界を徘徊したところ、ありがたくも上記百科事典的サイトにたどり着き、さっそく「ジョン・リース伝記」に到達しました。少なからず、
幼少期、生い立ちから青年期、ならびにＢＢＣ支配人に至るまでの経緯、ＢＢＣの責任者としての創業時の「組織訓」等等、さらにＢＢＣを去ってからの氏の活動など、項目別的レベルではあるが、資料収集できました。
となれば、
自己の予習記録の目的にて、上述参考資料により抜粋し得た「内容」を我がブログに書き留めておきたく、あくまでもメモ目的の記事として掲載いたしました。

Ｊ．リース伝記掲載に先駆け、リース氏の執ったＢＢＣ放送開始時点の「放送目的及び内容別項目」らしきアイテムがありました。
もって、創業時のターゲットを確認する上で重要な確認事項と考え、以下別途に抜粋しておきました。

Cpyright and performing rights; Marconi patents;
associations of

1. concert artists,
2. authors,
3. playwrights,
4. composers,
5. music publishers,
6. theatre managers,
7. wireless manufacturers.


以って、以下、
Wikipedhia フリー・エンサイクロペディアより、『伝記：ジョン・リース』抜粋

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John Reith, 1st Baron Reith
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The Right Honourable John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith (July 20, 1889 - June 16, 1971),Sir John Reith (1927-), then Baron Reith (1940-) established the British tradition of independent public service broadcasting.

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Early life
Born at Stonehaven in Scotland, Reith was the youngest, by ten years, of the seven children of the Revd Dr George Reith, a minister of the Free Church of Scotland. He was to carry the religious convictions of the Free Church forward into his adult life. Reith was educated at Glasgow Academy then at Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk. Reith was an indolent child who had used his intelligence to escape hard work but he was genuinely disappointed when his father refused to support any further education and apprenticed him an engineer at the North British Locomotive Company. Reith had been a keen sportsman at school and only learnt to tolerate his apprentiship through part-time soldiering in the 1st Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers and 5th Scottish Rifles.

In 1914, Reith left Glasgow for London, largely in pursuit of a 17 year-old schoolboy, Charlie Bowser, on whom he appears to have formed something of a crush. Though he readily found work at the Royal Albert Dock, his commission in the 5th Scottish Rifles soon found him serving in World War I, being invalided out when struck in the cheek by a bullet in October 1915. He spent the next two years in the USA, supervising armament contracts, and became attracted to the country, fantasising of moving there with Bowser after the war.

On his return to the UK, Reith and Bowser both fell in love with Muriel Odhams. Reith won Muriel's hand but warned her that she must share me with C. He sought to redress the asymmetry by finding a partner for Bowser but Reith's subsequent jealousy interrupted the men's frienship, much to Reith's pain.

However, the end of the war saw a reconcilliation, with Reith's return to Glasgow as General Manager of an engineering firm and Bowser becoming his assistant. But the lure of London proved too much for Reith and in 1922, he again set out for the capital. Dabbling in politics, despite his family's Liberal Party sympathies, he ended up working as secretary to the London Unionist group of MPs in the United Kingdom general election, 1922. Perhaps prophetically, that election was the first whose results were broadcast by radio.

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The BBC
On December 14, 1922 Reith became the general manager of the British Broadcasting Company, an organisation formed by manufacturers to provide broadcasts to foster demand for wireless sets. In his own words he was:

... confronted with problems of which I had no experience: Copyright and performing rights; Marconi patents; associations of concert artists, authors, playwrights, composers, music publishers, theatre managers, wireless manufacturers.
Reith oversaw the vesting of the company in a new organisation, the BBC, formed under royal charter and became its first Director-General from January 1, 1927 to June 30, 1938.

He expounded firm principles of centralised, all-encompassing radio broadcasting, stressing programming standards and moral tone. To this day, the BBC claims to follow the Reithian directive to "inform, educate and entertain".

The first regular television broadcasts (November 1936 to September 1939) started under Reith's stewardship.

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Later life
After leaving the BBC in 1938, he became chairman of Imperial Airways. In 1940 Reith was appointed Minister of Information in the government of Neville Chamberlain. So as to perform his full duties he became a Member of Parliament for Southampton. When Chamberlain fell and Churchill became Prime Minister his long running feud with Reith led to the latter being moved to the Ministry of Transport. He was subsequently moved to become First Commissioner of Works which he held for the next two years, through two restructurings of the job, and was also transferred to the House of Lords.

The BBC Reith Lectures commemorate Lord Reith.

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