HUMAN VOICES

From the Booker Prizewinning author of Offshore and The Blue Flower/ a funny, touching, authentic story of life at Broadcasting House during the Blitz.The human voices of Penelope Fitzgeralds novel are those of the BBC in the first years of the World War II, the time when the Concert Hall was turned into a dormitory for both sexes, the whole building became a target for enemy bombers, and in the BBC as elsewhere some had to fail and some had to die, but where the Nine OClock News was always delivered, in impeccab le accents, to the...[Read more]