David Culbert

The Battlefields of the First World War

Published February 20 2007

On the Right Wavelength

‘In order to progress, radio need only go backward, to the time when singing commercials were not allowed on news reports, when there was no middle commercial on a news report, when radio was rather proud, alert and fast’, so stated CBS commentator Edward R.Murrow, (1958) subject of George Clooney’s new film released in the UK this month, Goodnight and Goodluck. Here David Culbert looks at the development of radio news commentary in the United States in the late 1930s and the political climate that shaped it.

Published January 13 2006

It Started with a Kiss

David Culbert visits an exhibition at the Allied (Alliierten) Museum in the former headquarters of the US occupation forces in Berlin.

Published December 16 2005

What We Knew

David Culbert assesses a new book based on interviews with ordinary Germans and German Jews who lived through the Nazi era.

Published April 20 2005

This Is The Army

David Culbert on a cinematic blend of propaganda and entertainment that proved remarkably successful with US audiences during the Second World War.

Published March 31 1999

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